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tinctly banded and coarsely mottled with gray and buff and narrowly 

 tipped with buft"; entire breast gray, finely mottled with pale brown and 

 bully and with fine black shaft streaks; crissum buffy with irregular 

 black bars, coarser and fewer on under tail coverts. 



Dimensions. — Wing 163; tail 123; culmen 13; tarsus 18. 



General notes. — The crown of A. goldniani is much paler than the rest of 

 the back and in the silky gra_y gloss and pattern of markings closely re- 

 sembles the crown of a gray si^ecinien of Nyclidromus albicoUis. It has the 

 same general type of coloration as A. rldgwayl, and like it has feathers 

 only on the upper third of the tarsus. Both A. ridgwayi and .1. goldniani 

 are very distinct from A. salvin. The latter, although having a very 

 narrow buffy collar around the neck, is a much darker bird with a very 

 ditt'erent pattern of markings, especially on the wings, and has the upper 

 two-thirds of the tarsus feathered. 



Aphelocoma grisea sp. nov. Chihuahua Jay. 



Type No. 164250, ? ad., U. 8. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Collection, 

 from vicinity of Guachochi, in the Sierra Madre of southern Chihuahua, 

 Mexico. Collected September 27, 1898, by E. A. Goldman. 



Distribulion. — Oak woods in Sierra Madre of southern Chihuahua, 

 Mexico. 



Specific characters. — Nearest Aphelocoma woodhousel but the head paler 

 blue, back grayer, and crissum white. 



Color of type. — Top of head and neck pale grayish blue approaching 

 China blue; entire back dull gray with faint wash of blue; upper tail 

 coverts azure blue; upper surface of wdngs and tail a little darker blue 

 than crown ; ears and sides of head dark gray glossed with blue, espe- 

 cially on cheeks ; narrow superciliary streak of white extending back 

 from upper border of orbit ; chin and under side of neck to fore breast 

 dull whitish with pale bluish gray streaks ; breast and front part of fianks 

 dingy gray shading posteriorly into the white area occupying entire 

 crissum. 



Dimensions of type. — Wing 138 ; tail 140; culmen 24; tarsus 39. 



General notes. — Aphelocoma grisea may be distinguished from both 

 A. woodliousei and A. cyanotis by the paler, gra3'er color of its upper 

 parts, the obsolescence of the streaking on the under side of the neck and 

 fore breast, and the white crissum. 



Pipilo fuscus iutermedius snbsp. nov. Alamos Pipilo. 



Type No. 164259, (^ ad., U. S. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Collection, 

 from Alamos, Sonora, Mexico. Collected December 21, 1898, by E. A. 

 Goldman. 



Distribution. — Coast region of southern Sonora and northern Siiialoa, 

 Mexico. 



Subspecific cliaracters. — Size intermediate between Pipilo fnscas niesoleu- 

 cus and P. f. albigulu. Back clearer or more ashy gray than in either 

 albigula or mesoleucus ; crown oi'dinarily like back with only a trace of 



