BIRDS-—FRIN GILLIDAE—EU SPIZ A, 
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In this species the bill is large and much swollen. The tail is slightly emargiuate, and a 
good deal rounded. The second quill is longest; the third, fourth, and first are scarcely shorter. 
The tertiaries are much elongated, within a quarter of an inch as long as the primaries. The 
claws are large ; moderately curved. The tarsi are large and strong. 
The white patch on the wing is confined to the greater and middle coverts. The elongated 
tertiaries are conspicuously edged with white. Some of the feathers on the posterior part of 
the body have white margins. 
A young male is similar to the female, but the chin and quills, with the lesser wing coverts, 
as also the tail, are black. There is also a tendency to black in the anterior part of the belly. 
Very young birds have the characters of the female, the white patch on the wing usually quite 
distinct, sometimes wanting. 
List of specimens . 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
2869 
s 
S. F. Baird. 
5376 
O ? 
Dr. Hayden.... 
7.25 
12.00 
4.CO 
5375 
70 miles above Yellow- 
July 29, 1856 
11.00 
3.37 
5724 
$ 
127 
W. s. Wood ... 
5728 
O 
5722 
O 7 
July 19. 
129 
8929 
¥ • 
A 
146 
7.50 
12.00 
3.50 
8923 
o 
A 
Aug. 1. 
8.75 
12.00 
3.25 
8931 
0 
o 
Aug. 17. 
7.00 
10.75 
5.00 
8773 
V 
s 
Divide Fks. Platte. 
Aug. 13,1S57 
Wm. M. Magraw .. 
146 
Dr. Cooper. 
7.00 
11.25 
3.50 
Iris brown; bill black; 
feet pale. 
8990 
9? 
N. Fk. Platte river. 
Aug. 20, 1857 
.do. 
163 
.do. 
7.25 
12.00 
4.00 
Iris brown; bill brown &. 
white; feet brown. 
5720 
July 25. 
152 
W. S. Wood.... 
7038 
O 
July 21, 1857 
5721 
y 
Aug. 13,1856 
258 
7.00 
11.50 
6313 
<?? 
Texas.. 
Capt. Pope. 
7.00 
11 
3.50 
5032 
May 13,1855 
80 
6305 
r? 
6306 
O 
6307 
¥ 
A 
Fort Thorn, N. M. 
Dr. T. C. Henry.... 
6301 
6302 
6303 
6304 
9 
EUSPIZA, Bonaparte. 
Euspiza, Bonaparte, List, 1838. Type Emberiza americana, Gmelin. 
Euspina, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1851, 133. Same type. 
Ch. —Bill large and strong, swollen, and without any ridges ; the lower mandible nearly as high as the upper ; as broad 
at the base as the length of the gonys, and considerably broader than the upper mandible ; the edges much indexed, and shut¬ 
ting much within the upper mandible ; the commissure considerably angulated at the base, then decidedly sinuated. The tarsus 
barely equal to the middle toe ; the lateral toes nearly equal, not reaching to the base of the middle claw ; the hind toe about 
equal to the middle one without its claw. The wings long and acute, reaching nearly to the middle of the tail; the tertials 
decidedly longer than the secondaries, but much shorter than the primaries ; first quill longest, the others regularly graduated. 
Tail considerably shorter than the wings, though moderately long ; nearly even, although slightly emarginate ; the outer 
feathers scarcely shorter. Middle of back only striped ; beneath without streaks. 
