BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 269 



[Poospiza belli] var. belli Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwav, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i,1874, 

 590. 



Poospiza bellii Sclater, Oat. Am. Birds, 1862, 110 (California). — Hebkmann, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 46 (Cosumnes R. and bet. Kern R. and 

 Tejon Pass). 



[Poospiza} bellii Coues, Key N". Am. Birds, 1872, 141, part. 



Zonotrichia belli Elliot, Illustr. New and Unfig. N. Am. Birds, i, 1869, pi. 14. 



Amphi^iza bellii Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 234,part.^RiDGWAY, Proo. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.,iii, 1880,180. 



Amphispiza belli Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 416 (Murphy's, Calar 

 veras Co., Feb.); v, 1883, 530 (Santa Rosalia Bay, Lower California). — 

 RiDGWAY, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 225. — Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 

 1881, no. 259.— EvERMANN, Auk, iii, 1886, 182 (Ventura Co., California).— 

 MoRCOM, Bull. Ridgw. Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 49 (Mojave Desert, CajonPass, 

 and Bear Valley, San Bernardino Co.). — Emerson, Bull. Acad. Sci., no. 7, 

 1887, 429 (Poway, San Diego Co.).— TowiVsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 

 1890, 140 (San Clemente I.). — Anthony, Auk, xii, 1895, 141 (San Fernando, . 

 Lower California) . — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 143. — Grin- 

 NBLL, Pub. i, Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1897, 18 (San Clemente I.); Pub. ii, 1898, 

 39 (Los Angeles Co., up to 5,000 ft., resid.). 



A.[mphi^piza} belli Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 376. — Ridgw ay, Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 426. 



Amphispiza belli clemenlese Ridgway, Auk, xv, July (pub. May 14), 1898, 230 

 ( San Clemente I. , Santa Barbara group, California ; U.S. Nat. Mus. ) . 



AMPHISPIZA BELLI CINEREA Townsend. 

 GRAY SAGE SPARROW, 



Similar in size and proportions to A.h. ielli, but coloration conspicu-, 

 ously paler; above pale smoke gray or pale buflfy ash gray, the back • 

 more decidedly tinged with buffy and obsoletely streaked with darker; 

 lateral throat-stripes narrower, more interrupted, and dull grayish 

 instead of blackish; spot in center of chest smaller and dusky grayish 

 instead of blackish. 



Young. — Essentially like adults, but back distinctly streaked with 

 dusky, chest more or less streaked (narrowly) with brownish gray, and 

 sides of throat without any dusky streak. 



Adailt ma^e.— Length (skins), 125.73-132.08 (128.78); wing, 65.79- 

 .68.07 (66.80); tail, 63.75-65.53 (64.52); exposed culmen, 8.89-9.65 

 (9.14); depth of bill at base, 5.08; tarsus, 20.32-21.84 (21.08); middle 

 toe, 12.70.' 



Adult female. — Length (skins), about 133.35; wing, 62.23; tail, 

 60.96-61.47 (61.21); exposed culmen, 9.65; depth of bill at base, 5.08; 

 tarsus, 20.07-20.57 (20.32); middle toe, 12.95-13.21 (13.08).' 



West-central Lower California (Ballaenas Bay). 



Amphispiza belli dnerea Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, Sept. 9, 1890, 136 

 (Ballaenas Bay, Lower California; U. S. Nat. Mus.).— American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, Auk, viii, 1891, 86; Check List, 2ded., 1895, no. 5746. 



A.[mplmpiza'] belli cinerea Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 604. 



' Two specimens. 



