BIRDS FEIN GILLIDAE EUSPIZA TOWNSENDII. 
495 
In specimens from the border of the plains the black on the throat is restricted to the upper 
portion, immediately under the head. The streaks on the back are broader and less distinct. 
The first quill is longest, as in most specimens. 
In a young male, from Carlisle, the tail feathers are all acute and acuminately pointed. 
List of specimens. 
Carlisle, Pa. 
do 
West Northfield,Ill..., 
Union CO., Ill 
Independence, Mo 
Shawnee mission, K.T 
Fort Pierre, Neb. .. 
Fort Lookout, Neb. 
do 
Loup Fork of Platte 
Elk Horn river. 
Fremont on Platte 
East of Fort Riley, K.T, 
Republican Fork 
do 
Platte river 
Aug. 22. 1843 
Jan. 19,1843 
May 6,1844 
May 19 
April 20 
May 6, 1857 
July 
,1857 
July 3, 1857 
June 18,1856 
June 11,1856 
July 10 
Aug. 30 
Aug. 3 
July 29 
July 24 
July 3 
July 1 
June 30 
....do 
July 1 
June 16,1856 
July 2,1856 
June 12,1857 
July 19 
N. W. University 
Win. M. Magraw 
to.... 
Lieut. War 
do 
Lieut. Bryan . 
do 
Dr. Hammond 
Lieut. Bryan. . 
Capt. J. Pope. 
orm-l 
No. 
R. Kennicott 
do 
Dr. Cooper .. 
do 
W. S. Wood. 
6.25 
6.00 
11.00 
8.33 
10.75 
3.42 
3.00 
3.42 
Iris brown, bill and fee 
grayish. 
Iris br'n, bill bl'k, an 
flesh color, feet brown 
Iri3 dark brown . 
Iris dark brown. 
Iris dark brown . 
EUSPIZA TOWNSENDII, Bonap. 
Townsend's limiting. 
Emberiza townsendii, Aim. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 183: V, 90 ; pi. 400.— Ib. Syn. 1839.— Id. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, G2; 
pi. 157. — Nut tall, Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 528. 
Euspiza townsendii, Bon. List, 1838. 
Sp. Ch. — Male. Upper parts, head and neck all round, sides of body and fore part of breast slate blue ; the back and upper 
surface of wings tinged with yellowish brown ; the interscapular region streaked with black. A superciliary and maxillary line, 
chin and throat, and central line of under parts from the breast to crissum, white ; the edge of the wing, and a gloss on the breast 
and middle of belly, yellow. A black spotted line from the lower corner of the lower mandible down the side of the throat, 
connecting with a crescent of streaks in the upper edge of the slate portion of the breast. 
Length, 5.75; wing, 2.86; tail, 2.5G. 
Hub. — Chester county, Pennsylvania. But one specimen known. 
This curious bird has long been a puzzle to ornithologists in the uncerlainty whether it is 
only a variety of the Euspiza americana or a distinct species. Thus far but one specimen is 
