BIRDS—FRIN GILLIDAE-EUSPIZA TOWNSENDII. 
495 
In specimens from the border of the plains the black on the throat is restricted to the upper 
portion, immediately under the head. The streaks on the back are broader and less distinct. 
The first quill is longest, as in most specimens. 
In a young male, from Carlisle, the tail feathers are all acute and acuminately pointed. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig’l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
Aug. 22,1843 
6.75 
11.00 
3.42 
O 
Jan. 19,1843 
6.08 
8.33 
3.00 
V 
s 
May 6,1844 
6.66 
10.75 
3.42 
West Northfield, III.... 
May 19 .... 
April 20. 
.do. 
8332 
s 
May 6,1857 
55 
7.00 
10.50 
3.37 
grayish. 
8178 
s 
Shawnee mission, K.T. 
July -,1857 
.do. 
114 
6.75' 
10.62 
3.50 
Iris br’n, bill bl’k, and 
flesh color, feet brown. 
Q 
July 3,1857 
.do. 
118 
6.25 
9.75 
3.25 
6.00 
9.75 
3.37 
ddtu 
o 
A 
6.25 
10.00 
3.00 
o 
July 10. 
6.25 
9.75 
3.00 
o 
A 
7.00 
10.50 
3 37 
o 
A 
6.75 
10.25 
3.25 
0 
o 
July 29. 
6.00 
10.00 
3.25 
V 
6.75 
10.00 
3.50 
6 
A 
July 10 . 
7.00 
10.25 
3.37 
o 
* 
6.37 
10.00 
3.25 
o 
O 
July 24. 
6.00 
9.75 
3 00 
¥ 
o 
.do. 
6.37 
9.50 
3.00 
¥ 
July 1. 
6.62 
10 50 
3 50 
Q9£f> 
A 
6.62 
10.87 
3 50 
9962 
A 
6.75 
10.62 
3.37 
99f?4 
6.37 
10.75 
3.50 
Q94Q 
$ 
6.37 
10.50 
3.37 
9257 
July 1. 
6.12 
10.50 
3.37 
5702 
$ 
June 16,1856 
Lieut. Bryan .... 
14 
W. s. Wood. 
5704 
'$ 
54 
7087 
$ 
.do. 
June 12,1857 
1 
5705 
o 
July 19. 
124 
W. S. Wood .... 
6281 
¥ 
$ 
EUSPIZA TOWNSENDII, Bo nap. 
Townsend’s Bunting. 
Emberiza townsendii, Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 183: V, 90 ; pi. 400 .—Ib. Syn. 1839 .—Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 62; 
pi. 157 .—Ncttall, Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 528. 
Euspiza townsendii, Bon. List, 1838. 
Sp. Ch.— Male. Upper parts, head and neck all round, sides of body and fore part of breast slate blue ; the back aud upper 
surface of wings tinged with yellowish brown ; the interscapular region streaked with black. A superciliary and maxillary line, 
chin and throat, and central line of under parts from the breast to crissum, white ; the edge of the wing, and a gloss on the breast 
and middle of belly, yellow. A black spotted line from the lower corner of the lower mandible down the side of the throat, 
connecting with a crescent of streaks in the upper edge of the slate portion of the breast. 
Length, 5.75; wing, 2.86; tail, 2.56. 
Hab. —Chester county, Pennsylvania. But one specimen known. 
This curious bird has long been a puzzle to ornithologists in the uncerlainty whether it is 
only a variety of the Euspiza americana or a distinct species. Thus far but one specimen is 
