808 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



dusky, the rectrices conspicuously edged with pale gray or buffy gray; 

 middle wing-coverts dusky, abruptly and rather broadly tipped with 

 white; greater coverts dusky centrally (mostly concealed), broadly 

 edged with cinnamon-rufous, and also tipped with white (forming a sec- 

 ond distinct band); tertials blackish centrally, margined terminally 

 (except in worn summer plumage) with whitish or pale rusty, their 

 outer webs mostly cinnamon-rufous or rusty; maxilla blackish, man- 

 dible yellow tipped with dusky; iris brown; tarsi brown, toes darker. 

 (In winter the rufous-chestnut pileum, especially along the median line, 

 is more or less broken by dull buffy terminal margins to the feathers, 

 and the general coloration rather more buily, especially above). 



Young. — Pileum dull brown streaked with blackish; rump pale buffy 

 grayish indistinctly streaked or mottled with dusk)^; under parts whit- 

 ish, tinged with bufl'y on chest, the sides of throat, chest, breast, and 

 anterior portion of sides streaked with dusky; otherwise essentially 

 like adults. 



Adult male.^hength (skins), 138.94-149.10 (143.76);' wing, 74.17- 

 77.47.(75.95); tail, 64.01-69.60 (66.29); exposed culmen, 9.91-10.41 

 (10.16); depth of bill at base, 6.60-7.11 (6.86); tarsus, 20.32-21.59 

 (21.08); middle toe, 13.97-14.99 (14.22).' 



AdAiU female.— Li&i\gt}i (skins), 134.37-147.32 (140.97); wing, 69.86- 

 78.74 (72.64); tail, 64.26-68.83 (65.79); exposed culmen, 9.65-10.16 

 (9.91); depth of bill at base, 6.35-7.11 (6.86); tarsus, 19.81-21.08 

 (20.57); middle toe, 13.21-14.22 (13.46).' 



Eastern North America, breeding in Newfoundland, Labrador, and 

 region about Hudson Bay (limits of breeding range very imperfectly' 

 known);" south in winter to South Carolina, Tennessee. Indian Terri- 

 tory, etc. 



Fringilla montana (not of Linnseus) Foester, Philos. Trans., Ixii, 1772, 405 (Hud- 

 son Bay; cites "Br. Zool. Edw., 269; Brisson, iii, p. 79; Faun. Am. Sept."). 



Spizella montana Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Mar. 27, 1880, 3; Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 210, part. 



[FringUlal monticola Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1788, 912 (based on Passer 

 canadensis Brisson, Av. , iii, 102) . 



Passerina monticola "ViEihLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 27. 



Z. [onotrichia'] monticola Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 374. 



[Zonotrichia'] monticola Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7398. 



iS-lpinitesI monticolus Gabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Apr., 1851, 134. 



Spizella monticola Baird, Kep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 472, part (eastern 

 localties and references) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 357, part. — Coues, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 224 (coast Labrador, breeding) ; Check List, 1873, 



' Length before skinning about 158.75-165.10. 



* Eight specimens. 



' Among southern breeding records are two which are doubtful or erroneous — cer- 

 tainly the latter in the case of one (Fort Sisseton,, South Dakota, /de McChesney, 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1879, 77; the other record being northern 

 Minnesota, yidc Hatch, Birds of Minnesota, 1892, 323). 



