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73.15; tail, 53.59; exposed culmen, 12.70; depth of bill at base, 9.65; 

 tarsus, 20.07; middle toe, 16.51. 



Chester Countj^, Pennsylvania (one specimen, taken near New Gar- 

 den, May 11, 1833; now in United States National Museum). 



Emberiza towmendii Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 183 (Chester Co., Pennsyl- 

 vania; type in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); v, 1839, 90, pi. 400; B. Am., iii, 1841, 

 62, pi. 157.— NuTTALL, Man., 2d ed., i, 1840, 528. 



Emberiza townsendi Avbvbov, Synop., 1839, 101. 



Empiza townsendii Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 32. — Baird, B. X. 

 Am., 1858, 495; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, no. 379.— Coues, Check List, 1873, 

 no. 192. 



Euspiza towmendi Baird, Brewer, and Bidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 68, pi. 28, fig. 13.— Maynard, Birds E. N. Am., 1881, b-Al. 



[Euspiza] toumsendii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 148. 



Spiza townsendi Eidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 182; Nom. 

 N. Am. B., 1881, no. 255.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 288.— 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 774, 



Spiza tovmsendii American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, p. 354 

 ("hypothetical list," no. 18). 



8.[_pizd] townsendi Coves, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 388. 



S. \_piza] toumsendii Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 452. 



Genus CHONDESTES Swainson. 



Chondestes Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. ser., i,1827, 435. (Type, C. sirigata Swainson.) 



Medium-sized terrestrial or semiterrestrial Fringillidse with long 

 and pointed wing (ninth primary equal to or longer than sixth), rather 

 long and rounded tail, and small feet (tarsus shorter than distance from 

 tips of secondaries to tip of longest primaries, and middle toe with 

 claw not longer than tarsus) ; head conspicuously striped with chest- 

 nut, black and whitish, and tail (except middle rectrices) broadly tipped 

 with white. 



Bill rather stout, conical, deeper than broad at base, its basal depth 

 less than length of gonys; exposed culmen about as long as lateral 

 toes, without claws; gonj^s a little shorter than distance from nostril 

 to tip of maxilla, straight or almost imperceptibly convex, the culmen 

 also nearly straight, but perceptibly convex at base and tip; tomia 

 nearljr straight to the basal deflection, the subbasal angle of the man- 

 dibular tomium not toothed. Nostrils partly hidden below and at 

 base. Kictal bristles inconspicuous. Wing long (about four and a 

 half times as long as tarsus), pointed (eighth and seventh primaries 

 longest, the ninth about equal to the sixth) ; primaries exceeding sec- 

 ondaries by a little more than one and a half times length of tarsus. 

 Tail long (more than three-fourths as long as wing), rounded. Tarsus 

 rather short (about twice as long as exposed culmen), its scutella dis- 

 tinct; middle toe and claw about as long as tarsus; lateral claws fall- 



