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POOECETES GRAMINEUS CONFINIS Baird. 

 WESTERN VESPER SPARROW. 



Similar to P. g. gramineus, but averaging larger, bill more slender, 

 and colors slightly paler and grayer, with streaks on chest, etc., not 

 so dark. 



Ad-uUmale.—ljQngth (skins), 139.70-158.75 (148.84); wing, 79.25- 

 86.61 (83.57); tail, 63.25-68.58 (65.79); exposed culmen, 10.92-11.68 

 (11.18); depth of bill at base, 7.37-8.38 (7.62); tarsus, 20.83-22.10 

 (21.59); middle toe, 13.72-14.99 (14.48).^ 



Adult female.— lj&ngt\i (skins), 132.59-152.40(145.54); wing, 76.20- 

 83.82 (80.01); tail, 57.66-68.07 (61.98); exposed culmen, 10.41-12.45 

 (11.18); depth of bill at base, 7.11-8.13 (7.62); tarsus, 19.81-22.35 

 (21.34); middle toe, 13.46-14.99 (14.22).' 



Western North America (except Pacific coast district), east across 

 the Great Plains to middle North and South Dakota, western Kansas, 

 etc., north through eastern British Columbia, Alberta, Assiniboia, 

 Manitoba, etc. ; Saskatchewan Plains (north to Fort Anderson ?) ; breed- 

 ing from highlands of Arizona and New Mexico northward; in winter 

 south to southern Mexico (States of Vera Cruz, Puebla, Oaxaca, etc.), 

 southeastward over nearly all of Texas, southwestward to coast of 

 southern California (Los Angeles Co.)., 



(?) FringUla {Zonotrichia) graminea (not Fringilla j/rammca Wilson?) Swainson, 

 Fauna Bor. -Am., ii, 1831, 254. 



[Zonotrichia] graminea Bonapaete, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 478, part. 



Zonotrichia graminea Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. E. , 1853, 

 84. — Heermann, Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 47, part (New Mex- 

 ico; Texas). 



Pooecetes gramineus Baird, Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., ix, 1858, p.xxxix, part, 

 p. 927 (Fort Bridger, Wyoming); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 337, pait; 

 Eep. IT. S. and Max. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 15 (Tamaulipas; Boca 

 Grande, New Mexico; Espia, Sonora) . — Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 



' 84 (Fort Whipple, Arizona; breeding); Birds N. W., 1874, 129, part. — Hoff- 

 man, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1882, 398 (Fort Berthold, North Dakota).— 

 (?) Ehoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893, 48, 63 (British Columbia, bet 

 Cascade and Eocky Mts. ; crit. ). 



Pooecetes gramineus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 379 (Oaxaca); Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 112, part (Oaxaca).— Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 6 (Forks of 

 Saskatchewan, breeding); 1863, 75 (Saskatchewan; EedE. ). — Dresser, Ibis, 

 1865, 487 (San Antonio, Texas, breeding). — Duges, La Naturaleza, i, 1868, 

 140 (Guanajuato). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 186, part. — Allen, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 57 (valleys of Yellowstone and Musselshell rivers). — 

 Coues, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr.,iv, 1878, 589 (Petabina, etc.. 

 North Dakota; descr. nest and eggs). — Ogilby, Sci. Proc. Eoy. Dubl. Soc, 

 iii, 1882 (32) (Navarro Co., Texas, Oct. to March ).—Seton, Auk, ii, 1885, 23 

 (Manitoba; song, etc.). — (?) Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 280 (s. e. South 



1 Eleven specimens. '' Fourteen specimens. 



