PASSERES F.RINGILLIDAE r. MACULATDS VAR. MEGALONYX. 303 



Carainalis virginia-nits var. igneus, COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 151. BD., BilEW., & 

 RIDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 103, pi. xxx, f. 10. COUES, Birds Northwest, 

 1874, 172. 



Cardinal-is Virginia tim, BD., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 17. 



Two specimens of this bird from Southern Arizona, collected the past 

 season, are quite typical of this race. It apparently was not uncommon. 

 A single individual was likewise obtained in Arizona by Mr. Bischoff. 



PIPILO MACULATDS, Swains., var. MEGALONYX, Bd. 



Lions-spurred Towhee. 



Pipilo megalonyx, NEWB., P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 89. BD., Birds N. A., 1S58, 515, pi. 

 73. KENNERLY, P. R. R. Rep., Whipple's Route, x, 1859, 30. HEERM., P. 

 R. R. Rep., x,pt,iv, 1859,51. XANTtis, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.,1859, 192 

 (FortTejon, Cal.). BD., U. S. &Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 17. 

 COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila., I860, 89 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.). 

 COOPER, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 242. MERRIAM, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 

 GS4 (Ogtleu, Utah). 



Pipilo maculatm var. megalonyx, COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 152. BD., BREW., & 

 RIDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 113. YARROW & HENSHAW, Rep. Oni. 

 Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 15. HENSHAW, Au. Lye. Nat. Hist., 

 N. Y., xi, 1874, 6. Id., An. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 45. Id., Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheelei's Exped., 1874, 81, 120. 

 COUES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 175. 



Pipilo erythrophthalmus var. megalonyx, ALLEN, Bui. Mus. Coinp. Zool., 1872, 178 

 (Colorado; Utah). HENSHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 63. 



Pipilo arcticus, HENRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 107 (New Mexico). 



This long spurred variety of the Towhee Bunting replaces, in the 

 Middle Region, the var. arcticus of the Missouri Region ; this, in turn, 

 giving place, in the East, to the common Black Pipilo (crythroplitlialnms). 

 Little can be said of the habits of this bird in the West which will serve to 

 distinguish it from its eastern congener. It is a common bird everywhere 

 below 7,500 feet, and has the same peculiar way of skulking in the brush and 

 dense thickets, scratching among the leaves, and finding its food chiefly on 



