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(Wacissa E., n. v.-., Florida, winter).— Gayloed, Auk, iii, 1896, 260 (Pasar 

 dena, California, 1 spec. Nov. 21, 1894).— Howe, Auk, xiii, 1896, 178 

 (Longwood, JIassachusetts, Dec. 8 to Jan. 25) ; xiv, 1897, 406 (Mount Wachu- 

 sett, Massaohusetta, breeding at 1,000 ft.).— Barlow, Auk, xiv, 1897, 221 

 (Sonoma, California, 1 spec. Oct. 27, 1896).— Grinnell, Pub. ii, Pasadena 

 Acad. Sci., 1898,37 (Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., California, Nov. 21, 1894, 

 and Feb. 25, 1897).— Allison, Auk, xvi, 1899,268 (Amite Co., Mississippi, 

 Oct. to Mar.). 



[_Friiuj!lla']2'ennsylvanica J^ATiiAii, Index Orn., i, 1790,445 (Pennsylvania; based 

 on Fringilla alhicoUis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 921). 



Fringillajjennsylvmdca AvDTjBO:^, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 42; v, 18.39, 497, pi. 8; Synopsis, 

 1839,121; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841,1.53, pi. 191.— Maximill^x, Journ. 

 fur Orn., 1858,276. 



Fringilla {Zonotrichiaj pennsylvanica SwAmsoa, Fauna Bor. -Am., ii, 1831,256. 



Zonotrlchia pennsylvanica Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 340. — Bona- 

 parte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 32. 



Genus BRACHYSPIZA Ridgway. 



BrachyspizK Ridgway, Auk, xv, July (pub. Mav 14), 1898, 224. (Type, Fringilla 

 capensis Miiller.) 



Related to Melospisa Baird, but tail shorter and double-rounded, 

 tarsi longer and stouter, and style of coloration very different. 



Size rather .small (wing, 63. 50-88. 90) . Bill moderate (exposed culmen 

 more than half as long as tarsus), triangular (basal depth about equal 

 to length of gonys); culmen gently convex terminally and basally, 

 straight or faintly depressed between; gonys straight or faintly con- 

 vex, about as long as maxilla from nostril; maxillary tomium with 

 faint subterminal notch, nearly straight anteriorly, then faintly but 

 obviously convex in front of the slight basal deflection; mandibular 

 tomium straight to the very faintly toothed subbasal angle. Nostril 

 rather broad, mostly exposed. Wing rather short (a little more than 

 three times as long as tarsus), rounded (eighth to fifth primaries 

 longest, ninth shorter than third) ; primaries exceeding secondaries by 

 less than length of exposed culmen. Tail decidedly shorter than wing, 

 double-rounded, the rectrices rather narrow, with rounded tips. Tar- 

 sus long (nearly twice as long as exposed culmen, more than one-third 

 as long as tail), its scutella obsolete on outer side; middle toe with 

 claw shorter than tarsus; outer claw reaching about to base of middle 

 claw, the inner claw falling a little short of the same point; hallux 

 about equal to inner toe, its claw shorter than the digit. 



Coloration (pftlie type species). — ;Sides and top of head gray, with or 

 without black stripes; upper parts brownish, the back streaked with 

 black; wing with two narrow white bars; under parts, including throat, 

 white; sides of neck rufous, extending to sides of chest; a black patch 

 across chest, sometimes divided into two lateral spots. 



Range. — Southern Mexico to straits of Magellan. (Monotypic?) 



Notwithstanding its different style of coloration from Melospisa., 



