210 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult m«/('.— Length (skins), 106.68-129.54 (117.35); wing, 57.15- 

 66.29 (62.48); tail, 42.93-51.31 (46.48); exposed culmen, 10.16-11.68 

 (10.92); depth of bill at base, 5.59-6.86 (6.35): tarsus, 18.29-20.32 

 (19.56); middle toe, 13.46-16.49 (14.73).^ 



AclnU fernaJe.—\^&u^l\x{s\:m&\ 111.76-123.19 (118.36); wing, 60.71- 

 63.75 (62.23); tail, 46.23-50.80 (47.75); exposed culmen, 10.16-11.18 

 (10.67); depth of bill at base, 5.84-6.86 (6.60);, tarsus, 18.54-19.81 

 (19.05); middle toe, 13.46-15.49 (14.99).= 



"Western United States and Mexican plateau; east to western Min- 

 nesota and Iowa, eastern Kansas, Texas, etc.; south (in winter only?) 

 to highlands of Guatemala and Costa Rica. 



Aiiii:iodr(tmii,s himanddtus Swaixmin, Philos. Mag., n. s., i, 1827, 435 (Temascal- 

 tepec, Jlexico). 



A[mmodramus] himaculatiis Gkay, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 374. 



lAminodrainus} 6imfiC!(/ah(s Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 96, no. 7418. — Boxapaete, 

 Consp.Av., 1,1850,482. 



Cotitrnicidus lienslovAi (not Emberaa henslowii Audubon) Sclatee, Proc. Zool. .Soc. 

 Lond., 1856, 305 (Cordova, Vera Cruz; seeSclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 

 1857, 82). 



Cotiinticifh.is passerinvs (not Fringilla passerina AVilaon) Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 450, part (Shawnee Mission, Kansas; Loup Fork of Platte R. ; 

 Bill Williams Mt., Arizona; Nogales, Sonora); Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. 

 Surv., Ii, 1859, 15 (Los Nogales, Sonora); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 338, part. — Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 379 (Oaxaca, s. Mexico, 

 Mar.); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 116, part (Guatemala). — Sclatee and Salvin,. 

 Ibis, 1859, 18 (Guatemala). — Kenneely, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., x, pt. Iv, 1859, 

 28 (Bill Williams R. and Colorado R., Arizona). — Heeemaxx, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, 1859, 49 (California, etc.). — Cabanis, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1860, 411 (San laidro, Costa Rica).— Deessee, Ibis, 1865, 487 (San 

 Antonio, Texas, breeding). — Lawbence, Ann. Lj-c. N. Y., Ix, 1868, 103 

 (Costa Rica); Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., il, 1874, 277 (Mazatlan); Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.,no. 4, 1876, 21 (Tehuantepec City, Oaxaca). — Sumichbast, Mem. 

 Bost. Soc. N.H.,i, 1869, 552 (Vera Cruz, in winter). — Feantzius, Journ. fur 

 Orn., 1869, 301 (San Isidro, Costa Rica).— Coopee, Orn. Cal., 1870, 189, excl. 

 syn. part. — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iil, 1872, 136 (Kansas), 177 

 (Utah) .— Meebill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 126 (Fort Brown, Texas, 

 Jan.).— Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv., v, 1879, 390 (Lomita, 

 Texas, April).— Robeets and Bennee, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880,14 

 (Grant and Traverse counties, Minnesota breeding). — Hatch, Ninth Ann. 

 Rep. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Minn., 1881, 395.— Ogilby, Sci. Proc. Roy. 

 Dubl. Soc, iil, 1882 (32) (Navarro Co., Texas, summer resid. ). — Zeledon, 

 Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 9. — Ageesboeg, Auk, ii, 1885, 280 (s. e. South 

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

 384, part. 



[Coturnicidus] passerinus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1S72, 137, part. — Sclatee and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 32, part. 



Aiimiodmmus passerinus Woodhouse, in Rep. i-iitiireaves' Expl. Zufli and Col. R. 

 1853, 86 (Indian Territory; Texas; New Mexico). 



Ammodramus sarannnnun passerinus Goss, Birds Kans., 1891, 445 (summer resid., 

 Apr. to Oct.). — Hatch, Birds Minn., 1892, 313 (Grant and Norman counties 

 and in Red R. valley). 



^ Twelve speciinenjj. '' Eight specimens. 



