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U. S. P. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. 
MELOSPIZA LINCOLNII, B a i r d . 
Lincoln's Finch. 
Fringilla lincolnii, Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 539, pi. 193.— Nutt. Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 569. 
Linaria lincolnii, Rich. List, 1837. 
Passerculus lincolnii, Bonap. List, 1838. 
Peucaea lincolnii, Aud. Synopsis, 1839, 113.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 116, pi. 177.— Bonap. Consp. 1850, 481.— 
Ib. Comptes Rendus XXVII, 1854, 920. 
Passerculus zonarius, (Bp.) Sclater, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1856, 305. 
Sp. Ch. — Crown chestnut, with a median and two lateral or superciliary ash colored stripes ; each feather above streaked 
centrally with black. Back with narrow streaks of black. Beneath white, with a maxillary stripe curving round behind the 
ear coverts, a well denned band across the breast, extending down the sides, and the under tail coverts, brownish yellow. 
The maxillary stripe margined above and below with lines of black spots. The throat, upper part of breast, and sides of the 
body, with streaks of black, smallest in the middle of the former. There is a chestnut stripe back of the ear, streaked with 
black. The pectoral bands are sometimes paler. Length, 5.60 ; wing, 2.60. 
Hab. — United States from Atlantic to Pacific, and south through Mexico to Guatemala. 
This species is easily known among the American sparrows by the well marked yellowish 
hand across the breast and the maxillary stripe of brownish yellow relieved against the white 
of the under parts generally. Ammodromus caudacutus has these stripes somewhat similar ; 
but the superciliary stripe is also yellowish, not ash color, and the middle of the throat is 
unspotted. The bill is much longer, and the generic characters otherwise different. 
List of specimens. 
rami. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
cil'wings 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
1)37 
972 
4811 
4898 
4809 
4814 
4815 
4812 
4813 
4810 
5416 
1864 
8218 
3703 
4090 
4089 
4090 
6335 
6700 
3904 
8051 
8052 
8 
Q 
5.58 
5.37 
5.50 
5.75 
5.50 
5.37 
6.00 
5.50 
6.00 
8.33 
8.00 
7.62 
8.00 
8.37 
9.50 
8.00 
8.00 
8.12 
9.50 
2.33 
2.37 
2.62 
3.00 
2.50 
2.50 
2.75 
3.12 
May 16, 1843 
April 23, 1856 
April 25, 1856 
Lt. G. K. Warren. 
16 
Iris very dull brown.... 

3 
8 
8 
8 
8 
April 26, 1856 
April 5, 1856 
April 8,1856 
May 8,1856 
May 6, 1856 
May 8, 1856 
July — , 1855 
1843 
Sept. 10, 1857 
Mar. 31, 1850 
Mar. —,1853 
do 
do 
52 
do 
do 
Big Sioux river, Neb... 
Vermilion liver, Neb... 
do 
Blackfoot country. Neb. 
S. P. Baird 
W. M. Magraw... 
Capt. Stansbury .. 
198 
5.25 
7.50 
2.50 
8 
55 
7 
100 
5.50 
4.87 
4.75 
7.50 
8.00 
6.50 
2.50 
2.50 
2.50 
Eyes dark br'n,bill slate 
color, yellow at base. 
NewMexico, (Camp 121) 
Feb, — , 1854 
Lt. Whipple 
Port Tejon 
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