368 PEINGILLIDiE. 



hypochondriis miirino tinetis, rostro et pedibus plumbeo-nigris. Long, tota 4-8, alsB 2-35, caucbe 2-3^ 



tarsi 0-7. (Descr. feminse ex La Paz, California. Mus. nostr.) 

 cJ feminae omnino similis. 

 Av. jun. dorso medio vix striato, corpore subttis omnino albo, pectore murino vix striato. (Deser. exempl. ex 



Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



Hah. North America, Utah and Nevada ^, California ^ and Texas ^ ^. — Mexico,. 

 Tamaulipas {J. H. Clark ^), Guaymas {Selding ^). 



This well-defined Finch is not common in Mexico, and we have no specimens with 

 definite localities from any place in Southern or Central Mexico, nor any records of it* 

 having been obtained in either district. Along the northern frontier it seems to be 

 more frequently met with both in the Rio Grande valley and in that of the Gila and the 

 adjoining country. Northwards it occurs in the middle province of the United States 

 from the 40th parallel between the Eocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, that is in 

 the sage-brush chaparral. It also occurs in California, and is migratory in the northern 

 part of its range ®. The song of A. lilineata is described as simple but composed of 

 very sweet notes *. Its nest is usually placed in a sage-bush near the ground and is 

 built of straws and lined with fine roots. The eggs are of a rounded-oval shape, white, 

 with a slight tinge of blue when fresh ^. 



2. Amphispiza quinquestriata. {ZonotricUa quinquestnafa, Tab. XXVII. 

 fig. 2.) 



Zonotrichia quinquestriata, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868^ p. 323 \ 

 Amphispiza quinquestriata, Ridgw. Ibis, 1883, p. 400^. 



Schistacea, interscapulio vinaoeo tincto ; alis oaudaque fnsoo-nigricantibus, secundariorum et tectricum 

 majorum marginibus externis brunnescentibus ; superciliis, striga utrinque rictali et gula media albis ; 

 gula superiori utrinque et inferiori tota cum pectore medio nigris ; ventre medio, hypocbondriis et crissi 

 plumarum marginibus nigris ; rostro nigricanti-seneo, mandibula flavo notata ; pedibus corylinis. Long., 

 tota 6-5, alsB 2-8, caudse 2-5, tarsi 0'7. (Deser. exempl. typ. ex Mexico. Mus. Brit.) 



Hah. Mexico 1. 



The type of this well-marked species is still the only specimen we have seen up to 

 the present time. It was for a long time in the late Mr. Gould's possession, having 

 been sent him with some Humming Birds from Mexico. Judging from the preparation 

 of the skin, we believe that it was made by Floresi, who resided for some time in the 

 mining districts of Central Mexico, and who corresponded with Gould. 



ZONOTEICHIA. 



Zonotrichia, Swainson, Faun. Bor.-Am. iii. p. 493 (1831) ; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. 

 p. 565; Coues, Key N. Am. B. ed. 2, p. 381. 



This name was first used by Swainson, in a subgeneric sense, for several North- 

 American Finches, which have been since removed into as many genera. One of these^ 

 Z. leucojahrys, has been selected as the type of the genus Zonotrichia. Though several 



