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Amazona albifrons saltuensis subsp. nov. Blue- crowned Parrot. 



7 ///><? No. 164257, tf ad., U. S. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Collection, 

 from Camoa, Sonora, Mexico. Collected January 16, 1899, by E. A. 

 Goldman. 



Distribution. Northern Sinaloa and southwestern Sonora, Mexico. 



/Stibspt'cific characters. Compared with specimens of A. albifrons from 

 the coast of Oaxaca and Guerrero, the birds from southwestern Sonora 

 may be distinguished by the greater width of blue area on crown, the 

 strong wash of blue over back and sides of neck, and the lighter wash 

 of same over rest of back and on all of under parts; thus giving the 

 plumage a bluish-green cast instead of the oil-green back and apple-green 

 under parts of the presumably typical birds from farther south. No ap 

 preciable difference in size. 



Dimensions of type.* Wing 185; tail 97 ; culmen 25 ; tarsus 18. 



Antrostomus goldmaiii sp. nov. Goldman's Whippoorwill. 



Type No. 164310, $ ad., U. S. National Museum, Biological Survey Col 

 lection, from vicinity of Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Collected April 7, 

 1899, by E. A. Goldman. 



Distribution. Known only from the type locality. 



Specific characters. Most like Antrostomus ridgwayi but larger and paler, 

 with the buffy collar around back of neck narrower. Tarsus feathered 

 only on upper third. 



Color. Top of head and nape pale, brownish drab-gray, with a narrow 

 median line formed of irregular black shaft streaks ; feathers on sides of 

 crown and nape with fine black shaft streaks ; a grayish white stripe 

 from top of orbit back along sides of nape ; ear coverts mottled brownish, 

 bordered below by a narrow line of white ; chin and throat grayish brown 

 with the feathers on chin finely mottled with blackish and on lower 

 throat with narrow subterminal black bars and broad white tips ; imme 

 diately back of this, a collar of golden huffy completely encircling neck ; 

 shoulders, back, rump, and upper tail coverts dark gray, finely mottled 

 with pale brown and with distinct shaft streaks of black, heaviest on 

 upper tail coverts ; primaries dull black, with large spots of rich fulvous 

 buffy on both webs, and mottled near tips with gray ; secondaries black 

 ish coarsely mottled with gray and fulvous buffy ; outer web of outer scap 

 ulars dull blackish, finely mottled with gray, with roughly oblong black 

 spots forming part of most of black shaft streaks ; these black spots and 

 streaks edged with bufly ; inner web of inner scapulars like those already 

 described but adjacent inner and outer webs of middle scapulars pale 

 gray, finely mottled with darker, forming a broad, pale, longitudinal 

 band along middle of scapulars on each side of which extend most of the 

 oblong black shaft spots ; tail above very similar to back in general color 

 but more coarsely mottled with black ; tail below dull blackish, indis- 



* All measurements are in millimeters. 



