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more or less varied with blackish; general color of upper parts light 

 broccoli brown or buffy hair brown, the back and scapulars broadly- 

 streaked with brownish black, these blackish streaks with a harrow 

 marginal suffusion of brown ; middle and greater wing-coverts tipped 

 with white or buff}' white, producing two distinct bands; under parts 

 (except chin, throat, and median portion of chest) white, becoming dull 

 brownish buffy on sides and flanks, where more or less streaked with 

 brown or dusky; under tail-coverts pale buffy with grayish brown cen- 

 tral (concealed) areas; bill light brownish (vinaceous or vinaceous-pink 

 in life?); iris brown; tarsi light brownish, toes slightly darker. 



Immature {young in first unnterf). — Pileum with feathers black cen- 

 trally, but more or less broadly margined with pale grayish buffy, pro- 

 ducing a conspicuously squamate effect; throat (sometimes chin also) 

 white, or mostlj- so, with more or less of black along each side; middle 

 of chest blotched or broadh' streaked with black or dark brown; other- 

 wise like adults. (Some specimens with fully developed black throat- 

 patch have the feathers of the pileum more or less tipped (not mar- 

 gined laterally) with pale gray or grayish white. These are possibly 

 younger birds.) (Young not seen.) 



Adult mafe.— Length (skins), 164.08-186.18 (176.78); wing, 87.12- 

 91.44 (89.15); tail, 79.76-85.8.') (83.57); exposed culmen, 12.70-13.21 

 (12.95); depth of bill at base, 8.89-9.65 (9.14); tarsus, 23.37-24.89 

 (24.38); middle toe, 16.00-17.78 (17.27).^ 



Adult female.— IjewgVii (skins), 169.16-176.58 (172.72); wing, 80.01- 

 85.09 (82.80); tail, 77.22-80.26 (78.99); exposed culmen, 12.19-12.95 

 (12.70); depth of bill at base, 8.64-9.65 (9.14); tarsus, 23.11-24.13 

 (23.62); middle toe, 16.00-17.27 (16.51).' 



Interior plains of North America, from eastern base of Rocky 

 Mountains to western Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Manitoba, etc., 

 occasionally, during migration, to Illinois (Bloomington, Riverdale, 

 etc.) and Wisconsin (Racine) ; breeding range unknown;^ south in win- 

 ter to Texas (Navarro and Kendall counties, San Antonio, etc.); acci- 

 dental in British Columbia (Comox, Chilliwack, and New Victoria, 

 Vancouver Island), and Oregon. 



Fringilla querula Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canada, 2d ed., i, 1840, 555 (near 

 Independence, Missouri). 



Zonotrichiu querula Gambbl, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2dser., i, 1847, 51. — Baied, 

 in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 330 (Missouri R. ) ; Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 462; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 348.— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 488 

 (San Antonio, Texas, spring) . — Allen, Am. Nat., vi, 1872, 267, in text (Leav- 

 enworth, Kansas, May).— ^Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 7 (winter resident). — 

 CouBS, Check List, 1873, no. 185; 2d ed., 1882, no. 280; Birds N.W., 1874, 157; 



' Seven specimens. 



^ Doubtfully recorded as breeding near Fort Custer, Montana, and its supposed nest 

 and eggs described, by Major Charles Bendire, in The Auk, vi, 1889, 150. 



