BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 587 



maxilla blackish; mandible grayish (pale bluiwh in life?); iris brown; 

 legs and feet duskj' brown; length (skins), 127.00-143.24 (13.5.13); 

 wing, 69.09-73.91 (71.12); tail, 52.82-56.90 (54.61); exposed culmen, 

 10. 16-11. IS (10,67); depth of bill at base, 7.37-S.13 (7.62); tarsus, 

 18.03-20.07 (19.05); middle toe, 12.19-14.22 (13.21).^ 



Adult female. — Above plain dull green (oil green to biee green); 

 beneath olive-yellowish, clearer yellow (straw yellow to light gamboge 

 or maize yellow) on abdomen and under tail-coverts; length (skins), 

 119.38-139.45 (128.52); wing, 63.75-71.12 (66.29); tail, 4s.26-55.37 

 (51.82); exposed culmen, 10.16-10.67 (10.41); depth of bill at base, 

 7.11-8.13 (7.62); tarsus, 18.29-19.56 (19.05); middle toe, 12.45-13.72 

 (12.95).' '^, 



Young. — Above dull grayish brown, more or less tinged, here and 

 there, with greenish; middle and greater wing-coverts narrowly tipped 

 with pale buff or buffy grayish; under parts dull grayish buffy. 



Humid division of Lower Sonoran Province; north to coast of North 

 Carolina, southern Illinois, southern Kansas (Baker and Comanche 

 counties); south, in winter, to Bahamas, Cuba, the whole of Mexico, 

 and through Central America to Veragua; west during migration to 

 Arizona. 



\_Emhenza'] ciris Linn^ecs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10,i, 1758, 179 (based on Fringilla tricolor 

 Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i. p. 44, pi. 44, etc.) ; ed. 12, i, 1766, .313.— 

 Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 416. 



Eniberiza dris T^MMiNCK, Cat. Syst., 1807, 103. 



Emberiza ciris Wilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 68, pi. 24, iigs. 1, 2. 



Passerina ciris ViEiifLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 17; Gal. Ois., i, 

 1825, 81, pl."66.— D'Oreigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 102.— 

 CouBS, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 96; Check List, 2d ed.,.1882, no. 292; 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 391.— Ridgw.vy, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 251. — Hay, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 92 (Jackson, etc., Mississippi, 

 summer).— Bbewstee, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 100 (St. Marys, 

 Georgia; habits; song). — Jencks, Random Notes on Nat. Hist., i, 1884, 8 

 (Scituate, Rhode Island, 1 spec, summer of 1882). — Goss, Auk, ii, 1885, 276 

 (Comanche Co. , Kansas, common summer resident) . — Coey', List Birds AV. I. 

 1885, 12; Auk, iii, 1886, 210; viii, 1891, 294 (Cuba), 295 (Berry Islands); 

 Birds W. I., 1889, 97; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 112 (Great Bahama, Berry 

 Island, and New Providence, Bahamas; Cuba). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 601.— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus , 

 ix, 1886, 142 (Chietla, Puebla, Dec.). — Zeledon, Am. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 

 i, 1887, 111 (Las Trojas, Costa Rica).— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 

 219 (Caddo, Indian Terr., breeding; localities and dates; breeding habits). — 

 Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 492 (Baker and Comanche counties, s. Kansas, 

 summer resid. ). — Chbrkib, Expl. Zool. Costa Rica, 1893, 29 (Lagarto and 

 Buenos Aires, s. Costa Rica). — Howe, Auk, xiii, 1896, 261 (Longwood, 

 jMassachusetts, 1 spec. June 5, 1896). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 

 1896, 220, pi. 28, fig. 3. 



IPasserina] cins Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 97, no. 7437. — Cory, List Birds W. I., 

 1885, 12. 



'Fourteen specimens. ^Nine specimens. 



