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Dakota, breeding). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 

 383 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz, etc.).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 670, 

 part (in synonymy). 



[Pooecetes] gramineiis Coues, Key. N. Am. Birds, 1872, 137, part. — Sclatek and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 31. 



Pooartes gramineus Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 447, part. — 

 (?) Cooper and . Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 200, part 

 (Washington; Oregon). — Baird, Brewer, andEiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 i, 1874, 545, part, pi. 29, fig. 1.— (?) Hatch, Ninth Ann. Rep. Geol. and Nat. 

 Hist. Surv., Minn., 1881, 395.— (?) Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 

 1890, 143 (Ashcroft, int. British Columbia; crit. ). — (?) Maofarlane, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 441 (e. of Fort Anderson, breeding).— (?) Fannin, 

 Check List Birds Brit. Columbia, 1891, 35 (e. side Cascade Mts. ).—(?) Nut- 

 ting, Bull. Labr. Nat. Hist. Univ. Iowa, ii, no. 3, 1893, 275 (Grand Rapids, 

 lower Saskatchewan). 



[^Poocxtes gramineus] var. confinis Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 448, 

 in text (western United States; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Poocietes gramineus, yar. confinis Merriam, Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol'. Surv. Terr., 1872 

 (1873), 680 (Ogden, etc., Utah; Fort Hall, Idaho; Shoshone Lake, etc., 

 "Wyoming). 



Poocaetes gramineus, var. confinis Bidgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 182 

 (Colorado). 



Pooecetes gramineus, var. confinis Merriam, Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872 

 (1873), 706 (Ogden, Utah). 



[Poocaetes gramineus] var. confinis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 545. 



Pooecetes gramineus . . var. confinis Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 161a. 



[Pooecetes gramineus] b. confinis Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 129 (synonymy). 



Pooecetes gramineus con^nis Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan., 1875, 11 (Car- 

 son City, Nevada) . — Gill, Auk, xvi, 1899, 23. 



Pooecetes gramineus, p. confinis Ridgway, Field and Forest, iii. May, 1877, 198 

 (Colorado). 



Pooecetes gramineus . . . /3. confinis Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 466 

 (mountains of Nevada and Utah; song, etc.). 



PoScxtes gramineus . . . var. con^m's Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. "Wheeler's Surv., 

 1874, 80 (South Park, Colorado, breeding; descr. nest and eggs). 



Poeecetes gramineus . ..var. confinis Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 

 1874, 61 (Denver, Colorado) ; ^ool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 256 (Nevada; 

 Utah; Colorado; Arizona). 



Pooecetes gramineus var. confinis Merrill, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., i, Aug. 15, 1878, 

 126 (Fort Brown, Texas, migrat). 



Poocxtes gramineus . . . var. con;?ii is Hensh aw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 

 1873 (1874), 111 (Camp Grant and Gila R., Arizona, Sept.). 



Po«cetes gramineus confinis Coues and Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. 

 Terr., iv, 1878, 17 (Brownsville and Hidalgo, Texas, Apr. ).— MoChesney, 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., v, 1879, 76 (Fort Sisseton, South 

 Dakota, April to Oct.).— Mearns, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 164 (Fort 

 Klamath, e. Oregon). — Roberts and Bbnner, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 

 14 (Grant and Traverse counties, Minnesota, breeding). — Ridgway, Nom. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1881, no. 197a, part.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 

 194 (Arizona, Apr.; crit); viii, 1883, 189 (Colorado; crit.).— Coues, Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 233, part. 



P.[oceceles] g.[ramineus] confinis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 365. 



