82 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



tinge most apparent in a sharply defined band across the throat The continuity of the 

 brown above is interrupted by a scarcely observable collar round the nape of concealed 

 whitish ; this is discernible only laterally, w-here there is also an inconspicuous black space. 

 Whole head above, and neck behind, with numerous small circular spots of reddish- 

 white; back, scapulars, and wings more sparsely and more minutely marked with the 

 same; the two or three lower feathers of the secondary' coverts have each a terminal, 

 somewhat oval, larger spot of pure white. Secondaries crossed by three (exposed) bands 

 of pure white, and narrowly tipped with the same ; the bands formed by semicircular 

 spots on the outer webs. Primaries almost plain, but showing faintly defined obsolete 

 bands, — the tliird, fourth, and lifth with two or three conspicuous white spots on outer 

 webs, beyond their enuirgination ; primary coverts perfectly plain. Tail considerably 

 darker than the wings, and purer umber; crossed -with seven narrow bands of pure 

 white, the last of which is terminal and not well defined, — these bands are formed by 

 transverse spots, not touching the shaft on either web. Lores, sides of the forehead, sides 

 of the throat (beneath the cheeks and ear-coverts), and lower parts in general, pure 

 white ; the ante-orbital white continuing back over the eye to its middle, but not beyond 

 it. Lateral portion of the neck and breast (confluent with the gular belt), and sides, 

 umber, like the back, but more numerously, though more obsoletely, speckled, the .spots 

 rather larger and more longitudinal on the sides. Breast, abdomen, anal region, and 

 lower tail-coverts with narrow longitudinal stripes of nearly pure black. .Jugulum im- 

 maculate. Tarsi mottled on the outside with brown. Lining of the wing white ; a 

 transverse patch of blackish across the ends of the under primary coverts, formed by the 

 terminal deltoid spot of each feather ; a blackish stripe, formed of blended streaks 

 (parallel with the edge of the wing), running from the bend to the primary coverts. 

 Under surface of primaries dusky, with transverse spots of white anterior to the emargi- 

 nation ; these white spots on the longest quill are eight in number. Axillars plain white. 



Wing, 3.60 ; tail, 2.60 ; culmen, .45 ; tarsus, .60 ; middle toe, .55. Wing-formula, 4, 3, 

 5-2, 6,' 7, 8, 9, 10, 1. 



9 (36,874, Fort Whipple, near Proscott, Arizona, October 11, 1864; Dr. Coues). In 

 general appearance scarcely diiferent from the male. Upper surface more ashy, the specks 

 of whitish less numerous, being confined chiefly to the head ; those on the scapulars, 

 however, are large, though very sparse. The middle wing-coverts have each a conspicuous 

 roundish white spot near the end of the outer web ; the secondary coverts are similarly 

 marked, forming a band across tlie wing. The primaries and tail are as in the male, 

 except that the latter has eight, instead of seven, white bands. The brown of the gular 

 band extends upward over the throat to the recurved feathers of the chin ; the white dots 

 in the brown of the sides are considerably larger and (though very irregular) more circular 

 than in the male ; the stripes on the abdomen, etc., are rather broader and less deeply 

 black than in the male. Wing, 4.00 ; tail, 2.80 ; culmen, .48. (Wing-formula as in male.) 



Had. Pacific Province of North America, from Vancouver Island southward ; Arizona 

 (Fort Whipple) ; Colorado (El Paso Co., Aiken) ; Table-lands of Mexico (Coll., G. N. 

 Lawrence). Perhaps whole of the W^estern Province, from the Rocky Mountains to 

 the Pacific. 



One specimen in the collection (59,069) differs from those described in 

 much darker colors. Tlie original label is lost, but it was probably received 

 from the northwest coast, as the darker, more reddish colors bear about the 

 same relation to tlic paler gray tints of the southern birds that the dark 

 northwest coast style of Scojis asio (var. hcnnicoUi) does to the true nsio. 

 The stripes beneath are nearly pure black, the general tint above being a 

 reddish sepia-brown. Wing, 3.G.5 ; tail, 2.70. 



