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with dark brown centres. Wing-bands pale fulvous. Secondaries edged 
externally with reddish-brown. Beneath pale brownish-yellow, thickly 
but finely streaked upon the breast and sides with dark reddish-brown. 
Superciliary lines and sides of neck bright greenish-olive. Auriculars 
dusky. Chin stripes dark brown. From a specimen (sex not ascertained) 
in my cabinet collected by C. A. Allen at Nicasio, Cal., July 11, 1878. 
Two others in first plumage collected at the same time and place are essen- 
tially similar. 
106. Euspiza americana. 
Autumnal plumage: young. Crown, shoulder, and rump, with sides 
of head and neck, light olive-brown, the centres of the feathers slightly 
darker; a little concealed chestnut on the shoulders. Feathers of the 
interscapular region with dull black centres and brownish-fulvous edges. 
Wing-bands, with outer margins of wing-coverts and secondaries, dull 
brownish-fulvous. Superciliary line brownish-yellow, fading anteriorly 
to brownish-white. Throat, central area of the abdomen, and the crissum, 
pale brownish-white. Sides of breast and body brownisli-olive, with dark 
brown streaking on the flanks. Breast dull reddish-orange, streaked with 
dark brown, and washed with obscure ashy-white. From a specimen in 
the collection of Dr. J. M. Wheaton obtained at Circleville, O., August, 
1878. 
107. Goniaphea melanocephala. 
First plumage: male(?). Generally similar to the adult female, but 
with the cinnamon of the under parts stronger ; the sides of the throat 
and body, with the breast, profusely spotted with dull black. Crown black, 
with median stripe of brownish-yellow. Best of upper parts brownish- 
cinnamon, each feather centrally blotched with dull black. Wing-bands 
and tips of secondaries yellowish or brownisli-wliite. Superciliary line, 
chin, and sides of the throat ashy-white. Throat, jugulum, and breast, 
with sides of body and crissum, buffy-cinnamon, palest on the latter, and 
profusely sprinkled with dull black tear-shaped spots on the sides of 
throat, breast, and abdomen. May be distinguished from G. ludoviciana 
of same age (which it generally resembles) by the bright gamboge-yellow 
axillars and under wing-coverts. From a specimen in my cabinet ob- 
tained by Mr. Allen at Nicasio, Cal., June 2G, 1878. 
108. Pipilo fuscus crissalis. 
First plumage: male. Wings and tail dark clove-brown, the wing- 
bands reddish-fulvous, and the secondaries edged with rusty. Bump 
bright reddish-brown. Best of upper parts uniform dull reddish-brown. 
Beneath light rufous, deepest on crissum, scarcely paler across the breast. 
Pectoral region and sides anteriorly, faintly spotted with dark reddish- 
brown. From a specimen in my cabinet taken by Mr. C. A. Allen at 
Nicasio, Cal., July 2, 1878. 
