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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
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2. P. lapponicus. g . Head, all round, and jugulum, deep black ; a 
post-ocular stripe, running downward behind the black jugular patch, 
and entire lower parts from the jugulum, white. Nuchal collar chestnut- 
rufous. 9 with the black areas merely indicated by a dusky clouding, 
and merely a tinge of rufous round the nape. Length, 6.25 ; wing,. 
"3.90. Eggs grayish, thickly spotted, sometimes so as to appear quite 
brown. Hab. Circumpolar regions; south in winter into the United 
.States. ( Lapland Longspur.) 
3. P. pictus. Head above and laterally deep blacl^ bordered, 
anteriorly and below tvith white ; a post-ocular stripe, and an ovate 
auricular spot of the same. Nuchal collar and entire lower surface 
bright buff. 9 • Pale grayish-buff, darker above ; above distinctly, and 
on the jugulum obsoletely, streaked with black. Length, 5.50 ; wing, 
3.50. Eggs clay-colored, thickly marked with lines and dots, or 
blotches of brown. Hab. Interior plains of North America, north to 
Arctic Ocean. (. Painted Longspur .) 
4. P. ornatus. £. Head above, and whole breast and abdomen, 
black ; a superciliary stripe, side of head, chin, throat, anal region and 
crissum, white ; nuchal collar rufous. 9 hardly distinguishable from 
that of P. pictus. Length, 5.30 ; wing, 3.40. 
a. Lfsser wing-coverts brownish-gray ; black feathers of breast, 
etc., 
without rufous edges. 
Eggs light stone-color, sparingly 
marked with blotches of dark brown. Hob. Interior plains of 
United States. ( Chestnut-collared Bunting.') . . var. ornatus , 
* b. Lesser wing-coverts black ; black feathers of breast, etc., with 
rufous edges. Hob. Southern plains of North America, and table- 
land of Mexico. ( Blach-shouldered Bunting.) . . var. melanomus, 
b. Only two middle tail-feathers almost wholly black ; the rest with black 
ends, 
wings. 
$ without a nuchal collar of rufous or buff, and with rufous on the 
5. P. maccowni. £. Crown, and a broad crescent on the jugulum, 
black ; rest of head and neck ashy, approaching white on the throat 
and over the eye ; beneath white, above grayish-brown, streaked with 
black ; middle wing-coverts rufous. 9 • Above yellowish-umber, be- 
neath yellowish- white ; thickly streaked above, unstreaked beneath. 
No rufous on wings, and no black on head or jugulum. Length, 5.5R; 
wing, 3.60. Eggs bluish clay-color, varied with purplish and brown. 
Hab. Plains, from Texas, northward. (Me Colon's Bunting.) 
Subfamily P Y 'R G I T I M iE . (Page 43.) 
Genus PYRGXTA, Cuvier. 
General characters those of Pyrgitince (p. 43). 
P. domestica, Cuv. Above reddish-brown, the back streaked with black, and the 
crown ashy; sides of occiput chestnut; cheeks white; lores, and patch covering chin, 
throat, and jugulum, black in grayish in. 9 ; beneath whitish, ashy on sides; a white 
band across middle wing-coverts. Length about 6.00 ; wing, 2.85. Hab. Europe and 
Asia. Introduced into the Eastern United States, Utah, and Cuba. Nest in thatch, ivy, 
etc. Eggs ashy, dotted and streaked with brownish. ( House Sparrow.) 
