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IT. S. P. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS—ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
MELOSPIZA LINCOLNII, Baird. 
Lincoln’s Finch. 
Fringilla lincolnii, Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 539, pi. 193.— Ndtt. Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 569. 
Linaria lincolnii, Rich. List, 1837. 
Passerculus lincolnii, Bonap. List, 1838. 
Peucaea lincolnii, Aud. Synopsis, 1839, 113.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 116, pi. 177.— Ronap. Consp. 1850, 481._ 
Ib. Comptes Rendus XXVII, 1854, 920. 
Passerculus zonarius, (Bp.) Sclater, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1856, 305. 
Sp. Ch. —Crown chestnut, with a median and two lateral or superciliary ash colored stripes ; each feather above streaked 
centrally with black. Back with narrow streaks of black. Beneath white, with a maxillary stripe curving round behind the 
ear coverts, a well defined band across the breast, extending down the sides, and the under tail coverts, brownish yellow. 
The maxillary stripe margined above and below with lines of black spots. The throat, upper part of breast, and sides of the 
body, with streaks of black, smallest in the middle of the former. There is a chestnut stripe back of the ear, streaked with 
black. The pectoral bands are sometimes paler. Length, 5.60; wing, 2.60. 
Hub. —United States from Atlantic to Pacific, and south through Mexico to Guatemala. 
This species is easily known among the American sparrows by the well marked yellowish 
hand across the breast and the maxillary stripe of brownish yellow relieved against the white 
of the under parts generally. Ammodromus caudacutus has these stripes somewhat similar; 
hut the superciliary stripe is also yellowish, not ash color, and the middle of the throat is 
unspotted. The hill is much longer, and the generic characters otherwise different. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
ofwings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
<137 
$ 
May 4, 1843 
S. F. Baird. 
5.58 
8 33 
2.58 
07*> 
O 
May 16, 1843 
5.58 
8.00 
2.33 
4811 
V 
16 
5.37 
7.62 
2.37 
Iris very dull brown.... 
4898 
5.50 
8.00 
2.62 
48(lQ 
a 
April 26 ; 1856 
52 
5 75 
8 37 
2.62 
4814 
a 
5.50 
9.50 
3.00 
481^ 
° 
April 8, 1856 
5.37 
8.00 
2.50 
4819 
A 
May 8, 1856 
.do. 
6.00 
8.00 
2.50 
4813 
O 
A} 
May 6,1856 
5.50 
8.12 
2.75 
4810 
O 
£ 
May 8, 1856 
6.00 
9.50 
3.12 
Mlfi 
O 
July —, 1855 
1843.... 
Sept 10, 1857 
W. M. Magraw... 
198 
5.25 
7 50 
2.50 
Mar. 21 ; 1850 
4090 
A 
Mar. —, 1853 
55 
5.50 
7.50 
2.50 
Eyes dark br’n, bill slate 
color, yellow at base. 
4fl8Q 
7 
4.87 
8.00 
2.50 
4090 
9 
4.75 
6.50 
2.50 
Feb. —, 1854 
rr i tltxij 
6700 
3 
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8052 
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