BIRDS—FRINGILLIDAE—PIPILO CIILORURUS. 
519 
List of specimens. 
Oatal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
6834 
Sta. Caterina, Mex ... 
April —, 1853 
7.50 
10.50 
3.50 
o 
dark flesh. 
6835 
O 
Col. Graham. 
5 
J. H. Clark. 
8.00 
11.00 
3.62 
6828 
¥ 
Maj. Emory. 
6831 
Fort Thorn, N. M.... 
Dr. Henry.... 
6832 
6827 
Bill Williams’ Fork... 
Feb. 5,1854 
Lt. A. W. Whipple. 
67 
Ivenn. and Moll.. 
6830 
Los 1\ ogales, Mex.... 
June —,1855 
Maj. Emory... 
Dr. Kennerly .... 
6829 
$ 
Gila river. 
Lt. J. G. Parke.,... 
PIPILO CHLORURUS, Baird. 
Blanding’s Finch. 
Fringilla chlorura, (Townsend,) Add. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 336. (Young.) 
Zonotrichia chlorura, Gambel, J. A. N. Sc. Pli. 2d Series, I, 1847, 51. 
Embernagra chlorura, Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 483. 
Fringilla blandingiana, Gambel, Pr. A. N. Sc. Ph. I, April, 1843, 260. 
Embernagra blandingiana, Cassin, Illust. I, in, 1853, 70; pi. xii. 
Pipilo rvfipileus, Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool. XI, June 1848, 176 ,—Bp. Conspectus, 1850, 487. 
Kieneria rufipileus, Bon. Comptes Rendus, XL, 1855, 356. 
Sp. Ch. —Above dull grayish olive green. Crown uniform chestnut. Forehead with superciliary stripe, and sides of the 
head and neck, the upper part of the breast and sides of the body, bluish ash. Chin and upper part of throat abruptly defined 
white, the former margined by dusky, above which is a short white maxillary stripe. Under tail coverts and sides of body 
behind brownish yellow. Tail feathers generally, and exterior of wings bright olive green, the edge and under surface of the 
latter bright yellow ; edge of first primary white. Length, about 7 inches ; wing, 3.20 ; tail, 3.65. 
Hub. —Yalley of Rio Grande and Gila ; Rocky mountains north to the South Pass ; south to Mexico. 
In this species the wing is considerably rounded, the tertials considerably shorter than the 
primaries, and not exceeding the secondaries ; the fourth quill longest, the first shorter than 
the sixth, the second and fifth quills considerably longer than the rest. The tail is long and 
considerably graduated, the outer feather half an inch shortest; the feathers broad and obtusely 
pointed, the corners rounded. 
The extent of the chestnut of the crown varies somewhat; more extended probably in the 
males. The region on the side of the head, adjoining the nostrils, is whitish; the small feathers 
under the eye are spotted with the same. The posterior outline of the ash of the breast is much 
less sharply defined than the anterior. 
Specimens vary in the brightness of the olive above, which is never as pure as that of the 
wings and tail. The olive of the tail, too, is darker than that of the wings. 
A very young bird (1896) has the whole under parts dull white, streaked and spotted on the 
sides of the throat, and on the breast, with dark brown. The crown and back are also thickly 
spotted. In 5134 the ash of the breast has made its appearance ; the middle of the belly is 
white, spotted ; the chin white, encircled by spots. The spots above are restricted to near the 
head, and there is a small central patch of chestnut on the crown. 
No. 1896 is the original green-tailed sparrow killed July 12, 1834, by Townsend, and described 
in an extract of a letter to Mr. Audubon, published page 336 of volume Y, Orn. Biog. It is 
