BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 393 



broadly margined with buffy or pale fulvous; maxilla dusky, the 

 torn ia pale (yellowish in life?); mandible yellowish; iris brown; legs 

 and feet brownish. Young still darker than young of /*. /. luniecfevs, 

 especially the under parts, the ground color of which is dull buffy 

 (nowhere approaching whitish), this heavily spotted with dark rusty 

 brown; the sides and flanks plain rusty brown; the under tail-coverts 

 dull brownish bufty or fulvous. 



AdvU «/«/,'.— Length (skins), 154.9.J-179.5S (169.4rii): wing, TT.iiii- 

 83.82 (80.52); tail, (;7.06-73.91 (70.61); exposed culmen, ll.lS-12.45 

 (11. 94) ; depth of bill at base, 7.37-8. 13 (7. 87) ; tarsus, 24. 38-26. 67 (2.5. 40) ; 

 middle toe, 16.00-18.03 (17.02); hind claw, 10.67-12.95 (11.68).' 



Adult female.— \^&[^^th. (skins), 154.94-181.86 (167.13); wing, 74.98- 

 82.04 (77.47); tail, 66.29-77.22 (70.10); exposed culmen, 10.41-12.45 

 (11.18); depth of bill at base, 7.62-8.64 (7.87); tarsus, 23.37-25.15 

 (24.64);' middle toe, 16.26-17.78 (17.02); hind claw, 6.35-12.19 (10.41).' 



Coast district of southern Alaska (islands and coast of mainland 

 from southern side of Cross Sound, Lynn Canal, etc., to north side of 

 Dixon Entrance); in winter, south to northern California (Bodega, 

 Humboldt Bay, etc.). 



PringiUa loirnsemll Acdubon, Orn. Biog., y, 1839, 236, pi. 424, fig. 7 (Columbia 

 River;' type now in U. S. Nat. Mus.); Synopsis, 1839, 119; Birds Am., oct. 

 ed., iii, 1841, 43, pi. 187.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 

 1840, 583. 



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



[Pasmrelki] toirntsendii Bonaparte, Consp. Ay., i, 18.50, 477. 



Passerella loinisendu Bated, Bep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 489, part (Ft. Van- 

 couver; Washington, Jan.; Columbia R., Feb.*); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 

 no. 375, part. — Cooper and Suckley, Bep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 

 1860, 204, part (Ft. Vancouver, Washington, Jan.) . — Dall and Baxnister, 

 Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 285, part (Sitka).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 

 221, part. 



\_P<Maerella townseMdi] var. tovmsendi Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway', Hist. K. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 49, part. 



Passerella tovmsendi Baird, Brewer, and Ridoway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 53, part, pi. 28, fig. S. 



[Passerella iliaca.] Var. townsendii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 147, part. 



Passerella iliaca . . var. townsendii Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 189a, part. 



[Passerella townsendii var. schistacea] a. townsendii Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 162, 

 part (in synonymy). 



Passerella iliaca townsendi Ridgway, Auk, xvii, Jan., 1900, 30 (breeding range) . 



Emheriza {Zonotrichia) rufina (not Emberha rufina Brandt) Kittlitz, Denkw., 

 1858, 200 (Sitka, Alaska). 



^ Ten specimens. 



■■' Seven specimens. 



' Winter specimen. 



* Of the nine specimens mentioned by Professor Baird only three are now in the 

 U. S. National Museum collection, two of these, representing the above-mentioned 

 localities, being the present form. 



