BIRDS—FRINGILLIDAE—PiriLO PUSCUS. 
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List of specimens. 
Catal. No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. No. 
Collected by— 
Lt. Abert.. 
6751 
Camp 120, Bill Williams’ 
Fork N. M .. 
Feb. 12. 1854... 
Lt. Whipple_ 
92 
Kenn. and Moll_ 
6750 
Feb. 6, 1854_ 
_do. _ 
72 
_do___ 
674^ 
Feb. 13,1856... 
101 
_do__ 
6747 
A 
Lt. J. G. Parke. 
Dr. Heermann_ 
6748 
o 
A 
Maj or Emory_ 
30 
A. Schott_ 
4578 
_do__ 
_do_ 
PIPILO FUSCUS, Swainson. 
Pipilo fusca, Sw. Philos. Mag. I, 1827, 434 —?Ib. Anim. in Menag. 1838, 347.— Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 487.— 
CaSsin, Jllust. I, iv, 1853, 124 ; pi. xvii. (The figure seems to be of the California species, the descrip¬ 
tion more like mesoleucus.) — Newberry, Zool. Cal. & Or. Route, Rep. P.R.Il. VI, iv, 1857, 89. 
Kieneriafusca, Bonap. Comptes Rendus, XL, 1855, 356. 
Fringilla crissalis, Vigors, Zool. Blossom, 1839, 19. 
Sp. Ch. —Above dark olive brown, the crown with a very slight tinge of scarcely appreciable dark rufous. Under parts with 
the color somewhat similar, but of a lighter shade, and washed with grayish ; middle of the belly ashy white ; the under tail 
coverts pale rufus, shading into lighter about the vent and sides of lower belly ; chin, and upper part of throat well defined 
pale rufous, margined all round by brown spots, a few of them scattered within the margin. Eyelids and sides of head, anterior 
to the eye, rufous like the throat. One or two feathers on the lower part of the breast with a concealed brown blotch. Outer 
primary not edged with white. 
Length, 9 inches; wing, 4 ; tail, 5. 
Hab .—Coast region of California. 
In this species the hill is sinuated as in P. abertii, differing from that of P. erythroplithalmus. 
The wing is much rounded ; the fourth quill longest; the first shorter than the secondaries. 
The tail is considerably graduated ; the feathers broad; the outer about .70 of an inch shorter 
than the middle ones. 
This species is much darker than P. abertii , and lacks the black on chin and side of head; 
the chin and throat are abruptly different from the breast; the light patch margined with 
black spots. 
I do not feel sure that this species is really the P. fuscus of Swainson. His description of 
“ Gray, beneath paler ; throat obscure fulvous, with brown spots ; vent ferruginous. Length, 
8; bill, .70; wings, 3.50; tail, 4; tarsi, .90; hind toe and claw, .70,” as given in 1827, 
differs from that of 1838. “Grayish brown above; beneath white; chin and throat fulvous, 
with dusky spots ; under tail coverts fulvous ; tail blackish brown, unspotted. Bill and legs 
pale, the latter smaller, and the claws more curved than in any other known species ; crown 
with a pale rufous tinge. Length, 7.50 ; wings, 3.50 ; tail, 4 ; tarsus, .90 ; middle toe and 
claw the same ; hinder toe, .65.” These proportions are certainly quite different from those of 
the California species, nor are the colors of either paragraph the same. It is possible that the 
first description is that of the present bird, and the second that of a species allied to P. meso¬ 
leucus, but it is quite as likely that both of these are entirely different from Swainson’s P. fuscus. 
