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under parts more or less suffused with brownish buffy; sometimes 

 with the chest and flanks narrowly streaked with dusky. 



Young in fivat plumage. — Pileum dusky, narrowly streaked with 

 pale grayish buffy; back and scapulars dull buffy broadly streaked 

 with black; under parts dull white, the chest and sides more or less 

 buffy and streaked with dusky; wings and tail much as in adults, 

 but middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with buffy, producing 

 two narrow bands.' 



Adult wiffiZe'.— Length (skins), 129.79-147.07 (137.67); wing, 68.42- 

 65.53 (62.48); tail, 55.37-63.75 (59.18); exposed culmen, 10.92-11.94 

 (11.68); depth of bill at base, 6.10-6.35 (6.23); tarsus, 21.3rl^22.10 

 (21.59); middle toe, 14.99-16.00 (15.75).' 



Adult female.— Liength (skins), 121.92-140.72 (131.83); wing, 

 57.66-62.23 (59.18); tail, 52.32-61.21 (56.13)'; exposed culmen, 10.67- 

 11.94 (11.18); depth of bill at base, 5.84-6.10 (6.03); tarsus, 20.32- 

 22.10 (21.34); middle toe, 14.73-16.00 (15.49).' 



\_FnngUla\ georgiana Latham, Index Om., i, 1790, 460 (Georgia).— Lichtex- 

 STEiN, Verz. Doubl., 1823, no. 251. 



Fringilla georgiana Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canada, i, 1832, 502; 2d ed., i, 

 1840, 588. 



Mdospiza georgiana Eidgway, Proc. U. S. IS'at. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 355.— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 584.— Thorne, Auk, 

 iv, 1887, 264 (Fort Lyon, e. Colorado, numerous in ]May, 1885).— Cooke, 

 Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 210 (breeding from n. Illinois northward; Oak 

 Point, Manitoba; San Angelo, w. Texas, etc.); Bull. Col. Agric. Coll., no. 

 44, 1898, 166 (Colorado Springs, 1 spec. Aug., 1897).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 697.— Palmer (W.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 

 264 (St. Johns, Newfoundland, summer). — Warren, Birds Pennsylvania, 

 1890, 243 (breeding nearly throughout). — Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xiii, 1891, 605 (Manitoba, summer resid.; habits, song, etc.). — Attwater, 

 Auk, ix, 1892, 339 (San Antonio, Texas, winter). — McIlwraith, Birds Ontario, 

 1892, 326 (breeding).— Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 160.— 

 Butler, Birds Indiana, 1897, 970 (breeding in Lake and Dekalb counties). 



M. [elospizal georgiana Ridgivay, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 433. 



Fringilla palustris AVilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 49, pi. 22, fig. 1 (Pennsylvania; ex 

 Passer palustris Bartram). — Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, .331; v, 1839, 508, 

 pi. 64. 



F. [ringilla'] jMlustris Bonaparte, Obs. Wilson, 1825, no. 105. 



Zonotrichia palustris Jaedine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 338, pi. 21, fig. 1. 



Z. lonotrichia'] ptalustris Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 374. 



[Zonotrichia'] palustris Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7394. 



Passerculus palustris Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 33. 



[Passerculus'] palustris Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 481. 



[Ammodramus'] palustris Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 289. 



' The young in first plumage of this species, closely resemble those of M. cinerea 

 melodia, but may be distinguished by the much darker color of the pileum, as well 

 as their smaller size. 



' Eight specimens. 



