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tion to which I had access, and as the bird was lost before reaching Washington city, its precise 
position is undetermined. I find, however, on examining the birds in the Smithsonian collec¬ 
tion, that it more nearly resembled the above named species than any other. Its description, 
as written in my note-book, is as follows : “A faint buff-yellow median line, from the base of 
bill to occiput. Head, throat, neck, back, and fore part of breast, yellow buff; paler beneath, 
and with a faint tinge of ferruginous above ; coarsely streaked on the top of head, finely on 
neck, throat, and breast, widely on the back, with central lines and spots of dusky. Two bars 
of yellowish white on the wings, formed by the tips of the coverts. First primary edged with 
whitish, secondaries edged with chestnut. Tail feathers pointed and dusky, their margins 
faintly ferruginous. Breast posteriorly, belly, and lower tail coverts, white, tinged with yel¬ 
lowish.”—S. 
POOCiETES GRAMINEUS, Baird. 
Grass Finch; Bay-winged Bunting. 
Fringilla graminea, Gm., Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 922.— Aud. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 473: V. 502; pi. 90. 
Emleriza graminea, Wilson, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 51; pi. xxxi, f. 5.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 102.-— Ib. Birds Amer. 
Ill, 1841, 05; pi. 159. 
Fringilla (Zonolrichia) graminea, Swainson, F. B. Am. II, 1831, 254. 
Zonotrichia graminea, Bon. List, 1838 .—Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 478. 
Poocactes gramineus, Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 447. 
Sr. Oh. —Tail feathers rather acute. Above light yellowish brown ; the feathers everywhere streaked abruptly with 
dark brown, even on the sides of the neck, which are paler. Beneath, yellowish white ; on the breast and sides of neck 
and body streaked with brown. A faint light superciliary and maxillary stripe ; the latter margined above and below with 
dark brown ; the upper stripe continued around the ear coverts, which are darker than the brown color elsewhere. Wings, 
with the shoulder, light chestnut brown, and with two dull whitish bands along the ends of the coverts; the outer edge of 
the secondaries also is white. Outer tail feather and edge and tip of the second white. Length, about 6. 12 to 6.75; 
extent, 9. 50 ; wing, 3. 10. Iris, bill, and feet brown. 
Ilab .—United States from Atlantic to the Pacific ; or else one species to the high central plains, and another from this to 
the Pacific. 
The bay-winged sparrow is common in summer on the prairies of the interior, arriving in 
April at Puget Sound, together with other species.—C. 
Rather abundant on the Nisqually plains, Puget Sound.—S. 
CHONDESTES GRAMMACA, Bonap. 
Lark Finch. 
Fringilla grammaca, Say, in Long’s Exped. R. Mts. I, 1823, 139.— Bon. Am. Orn. I, 1825, 47 ; pi. v, f. 3.— 
Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 17 ; pi. 390. 
Chondestes grammaca, Bon. List, 1838 .—Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 479. — Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 456. 
Emberiza grammaca, Aud. Synopsis, 1839, 101.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 63; pi. 158. 
Chondestes slrigalus, Swainson, Philos. Blag. I, 1827. 435. 
Sp. Ch. —Hood chestnut, tinged with black towards the forehead, and with a median stripe and superciliary stripe of dirty 
whitish. Rest of upper parts pale grayish brown, the interscapular region streaked with dark brown. Beneath white, a 
round spot on the upper part of the breast. A maxillary stripe and a short line from the bill to the eye, continued faintly 
behind it, black. A white crescent under the eye, bordered below by black and behind by chestnut. Tail feathers dark 
brown, tipped broadly with white. Length, 6 to 7. 12 inches; extent, 9.75 to 11.25; wing, 2.75 to 3.75. 
flab' —From Wisconsin and the prairies of Illinois (also in Michigan ?! to the Pacific coast; south to Texas and Blexico. 
