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IG. Genus SPIZELLA, Bonap. Comp. List. p. 33 (1838). 



1. Spizella pallida [Swainson). — The Clay-colored Bunting, 



Frivgilla pallida, Sw. Fauna Bor. Am. Birds, p. 251 (1831). 

 Emberiza Shattuckii, AuD. B. of Am. oct. ed. VII, p. 347 (1844). 



Aud. B. of Am. oct. ed. VII, Plate CCCCXCIII. 

 Specimens in the collection are from Oregon. 



17. Genxjs STBUTHUS, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 974. 



1. Steuthus oregonus {Toionsend). — The Oregon Snow Finch. 

 Fringilla oregona, Towns. Jour. Acad. Philada. VII, p. 188 (1836). 



Aud. B. of Am. Plate CCCXCVIII; oct. ed. Ill, Plate CLXVIIL 



Noticed by Dr. Pickering, as found breeding at Puget's Sound, Ore- 

 gon, on the fifteenth of May. 



18. Genus SPERMOPHILA, Swains. Zool. Jour. Ill, p. 34 (1827). 



1. Speemophila telasco [Lesson). 

 Pyrrhula telasco, Less. Voy. Coquille, Zool. I, p. 663 (1826). 



Camarliijnchus leucojpterus, Peale, Zool. U. S. Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 118 (1st ed, 

 1848).* 



* " Male. Crown, back, and rump, brown ; feathers of the back, darker colored in 

 the middle; wings and tail dark brown, or black; the tips or margins of the tail-feathers, 

 secondaries, and lesser wing-coverts, light brown ; a white bar crosses the wings at the 

 base of the quills, including all, except the three first, primaries; throat, breast, and 

 belly, light tawny ; irides brown ; legs sooty ; bill yellowish flesh-color. 



"Total length, four inches; extent of wings, six and seven-eighths inches; from the 

 cai-pal joint, two and two-tenths inches ; tail, one and a half inches; tarsus, six-tenths of 



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