BIRDS—FRINGILLIDAE—COTURNICULUS HENSLOWR 
451 
List of specimens. 
Oatal. 
No. 
731 
1728 
1121 
8183 
8188 
8184 
8972 
8971 
8974 
8973 
8978 
8969 
8970 
8977 
8966 
8976 
8975 
6334 
6333 
Sex and 
age. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig'l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
W'ing. 
Remarks. 
Sept. 20, 1842 
4.37 
8.00 
2.62 
O 
Oct. 23, 1844 
5.16 
8.16 
2.43 
V 
July 15 1843 
$ 
Shawnee Mission, K. T. 
July 3,1857 
Win. M. Magraw.. 
119 
Dr. Cooper .. 
5.25 
8.25 
2.62 
Iris brown ; bill slate and 
flesh; feet brown. 
July 4, 1857 
......do... 
122 
5.00 
8.25 
2.62 
.do.do. 
o 
July —, 1857 
120 
5.25 
7.87 
2.25 
.do.do. 
o 
July 27. 
5.25 
8.50 
2.50 
o 
9 
July 21 ..... 
5.12 
8.25 
2.37 
4.67 
7.75 
2.75 
Iris light brown... 
o 
July 27 ...... 
4.75 
8.25 
2.50 
V 
o 
July 24. 
5.50 
9.00 
2.50 
V 
5.12 
8.37 
2.50 
o 
4.87 
8.00 
2.50 
Iris brown. 
O 
A 
4.75 
8.50 
2.62 
o 
"Ti 
4.75 
8.00 
2.50 
O 
5.12 
8.62 
2.62 
6 
n 
July 27 ...... 
4.87 
8.25 
2.25 
V 
175 
Eyes black. 
June —, 1855 
85 
COTURNICULUS HENSLOWI, Bonap. 
Henslow’s Bunting. 
Emberiza liensloivi, Aud. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 360 ; pi. 77.— Ib. Syn. 1839, 104.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 75 ; pi. 
163.— Nuttall, Man. I, 1832. App. 
Coturniculus henslowi , Bon. List, 1838.—Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 481. 
Fringilla henslowi, Nuttall, Man. I, (2d ed.) 1840, 571. 
Sp. Ch.—U pper parts yellowish brown. The hood, neck, and upper parts of back tinged with greenish yellow. Inter¬ 
scapular feathers dark brown, suffused externally with bright brownish red ; each feather with grayish borders. Tertiaries, 
rump, and tail feathers abruptly dark brown centrally, the color obscurely margined with dark red. Crown with a broad black 
spotted stripe on each side ; these spots continued down to the back. Two narrow black maxillary stripes on each side the head, 
and an obscure black crescent behind the auriculars. Under parts light brownish yellow, paler on the throat and abdomen. 
The upper part of the breast, and the sides of the body, conspicuously streaked with black. Edge of wing yellow. A strong- 
tinge of pale chestnut on the wings and tail. Length, 5.25 ; wing, 2.15 ; tail, 2.15. 
Hub. —Eastern United States as far north as Washington ; westward to the Loup Fork of Platte. 
There are few birds whose colors are more difficult to describe than those of Coturniculus 
henslowi and passerinus. Far from having exhausted all the varied patterns and tints of the 
present species, I have, however, given enough to show the principal differences from its allies. 
The bill is very thick and large; the wings very short; the tertiaries as long as the primaries; 
the first five primaries nearly equal. The tail feathers are stiff, very narrow, and acute; pointed 
on both webs ; the tail itself considerably graduated. 
A specimen from Kansas (5716) has the under part dirty white ; the spots smaller, fewer, and 
more sharply defined. The distinct spots on the breast, and the yellowish head and neck above, 
without ashy margin, will readily distinguish this species from C. passerinus; the reddish being 
also confined to the interscapular region. The form of the two is, however, much the same. 
Western specimens are paler in tint, with the streaks on the under parts smaller and narrower. 
