_Fringilla lincolni_, AUD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 539, pl. cxciii.—NUTT. Man. I, (2d ed.,) 1840, 569. _Linaria lincolni_, RICH. List, 1837. _Passerculus lincolni_, BONAP. List, 1838. _Peucæa lincolni_, AUD. Synopsis, 1839, 113.—IB. Birds Am. III, 1841, 116, pl. clxxvii.—BONAP. Consp. 1850, 481.—IB. Comptes Rendus, XXVII, 1854, 920. _Melospiza lincolni_, BAIRD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 482.—DALL & BANNISTER, Tr. Ch. Ac. I, 1869, 285 (Alaska).—COOPER, Orn. Cal. 1, 216. _Passerculus zonarius_, (BP.) SCLATER, Pr. Zoöl. Soc. 1856, 305. SP. CHAR. General aspect above that of _M. melodia_, but paler and less reddish. Crown dull chestnut, with a median and lateral or superciliary ash-colored stripe; each feather above streaked centrally with black. Back with narrow streaks of black. Beneath white, with a maxillary stripe curving round behind the ear-coverts; a well-defined band across the breast, extending down the sides, and the under tail-coverts, of brownish-yellow. The maxillary stripe margined above and below with lines of black spots and a dusky line behind eye. The throat, upper part of breast, and sides of the body, with streaks of black, smallest in the middle of the former. The pectoral bands are sometimes paler. Bill above dusky; base of lower jaw and legs yellowish. Length, 5.60; wing, 2.60. HAB. United States from Atlantic to Pacific, north to the Yukon River and the Mackenzie, and south through Mexico to Panama. Oaxaca (SCL. 1858, 303); Xalapa (SCL. 1859, 365); Guatemala (SCL. Ibis, I, 18); Vera Cruz, winter (SUM. M. B. S. I, 552). There is little or no difference in specimens of this bird from the whole of its range, except that one from near Aspinwall is considerably smaller than usual, the streaks on the back narrower, and the color above more reddish. A young bird from Fort Simpson, on the Mackenzie, is much like the adult. HABITS. Lincoln’s Finch was first met with by Mr. Audubon in Labrador, and named in honor of one of his companions, Mr. Thomas Lincoln, now residing at Dennysville, Maine, by whom the first specimen was procured. His attention was attracted to it by the sweet notes of its song, which, he states, surpass in vigor those of any of our American Sparrows with which he was acquainted. He describes this song as a compound of the notes of a Canary and a Woodlark of Europe. The bird was unusually wild, and was procured with great difficulty. Other specimens, afterwards obtained, did not exhibit the same degree of wildness, and they became more common as the party proceeded farther north. He did not meet with its nest.