BIRDS — FRINGILLIDAE— EUSPIZA, 
493 
In this species the bill is large and much swollen. The tail is slightly emarginate, and a 
good deal rounded. The second quill is longest; the third, fourth, and first are scarcely shorter. 
The tertiaries are much elongated, within a quarter of an inch as long as the primaries. The 
claws are large ; moderately curved. The tarsi are large and strong. 
The white patch on the wing is confined to the greater and middle coverts. The elongated 
tertiaries are conspicuously edged with white. Some of the feathers on the posterior part of 
the body have white margins. 
A young male is similar to the female, hut the chin and quills, with the lesser wing coverts, 
as also the tail, are black. There is also a tendency to black in the anterior part of the belly. 
Very young birds have the characters of the female, the white patch on the wing usually quite 
distinct, sometimes wanting. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col- 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
No. 
lected. 
No. 
ol'wings. 
C? 
J. K. Townsend 
5376 
5375 
9? 
June 30, 1856 
Lt. G. K. Warren.. 
Dr. Hayden.... 
7.25 
12.00 
4. CO 
70 miles above Yellow- 
July 29, 1856 
6.75 
11.00 
3.37 
5724 
5728 
a 
Platte river 
127 
9 
9? 
a 
a 
9 
a 
do 
5722 
129 
146 
Dr. Hayden 
7.50 
12.00 
3.50 
3.25 
Ins brown . , 
8928 
8.75 
12.00 
10.75 
8931 
Aug. 17 
7.00 
5.00 
8773 
Divide Fks. Platte 
Aug. 13, 1857 
Win. M. Magraw . . 
146 
Dr. Cooper. 
7.00 
11.25 
3.50 
Iris brown; bill black; 
feet pale. 
9? 
Aug. 20, 1857 
do 
12. 00 
4.00 
Lis brown; bill brown & 
white ; feet brown. 
5720 
a 
9 
152 
7038 
July 31, 1857 
5721 
Aug. 13, 1856 
258 
do 
7.00 
11.50 
6313 
7.00 
11 
3.50 
Eyes black ; feet gray ; 
5032 
a 
Peeos, Texas 
May 13, 1855 
80 
6305 
a 
Dr. Heermann.. 
6306 
9 
a 
6307 
6301 
6302 
6303 
An 
a 
6304 
9 
EUSPIZ A, Bonaparte. 
Euspiza, Bonaparte, List, 1838. Type Emberiza americana, Gmelin. 
Euspina, Cabanis,Mus. Hein. 1851, 133. Same type. 
Ch. — Bill large and strong, swollen, and without any ridges ; the lower mandible nearly as high as the upper ; as broad 
at the base as the length of the gonys, and considerably broader than the upper mandible ; the edges much inllexed, and shut- 
ting much wilhin the upper mandible ; the commissure considerably angulated at the base, then decidedly sinuated. The tarsus 
barely equal to the middle toe ; the lateral toes nearly equal, not reaching to the base of the middle claw ; the hind toe about 
equal to the middle one without its claw. The wings long and acute, reaching nearly to the middle of the tail ; the tertials 
decidedly longer than the secondaries, but much shorter than the primaries ; first quill longest, the others regularly graduated. 
Tail considerably shorter than the wings, though moderately long ; nearly even, although slightly emarginate ; the outer 
feathers scarcely shorter. Middle of back only striped ; beneath without streaks. 
