BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMKKU'A. 



385 



65.5-71.5 (09); tail, 55.5-03.5 (59.9): culiiion, 9-l(> (9.4); tarsus, lS-19.5 

 (18.T); middle too, 11.5-13 (11.9)." 



Young. — Essentiall}^ like adults, but t)lack of crown and crest nuich 

 duller (the feathers often narrowly tipped with grayish), less sharph' 

 defined laterally and posteriorly against the gray, and anteriorly 

 invading the forehead almost (sometimes (juite) to base of culmen; 

 throtit and chest pale gra^'; color of sides and flaidcs much paler (cin- 

 namon-bulf instead of rufous-cinnamon); back sometimes suffused 

 with sooty or blackish. 



Kio Grande Yalle}', and Mexican States of Coahuila, Nuc\ o Leon, 

 Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosi, and Vera Cruz (highlands). 



ParuH atricridalus Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1850, lO.S, jil. 2 I Kio 

 Grande, Texay; coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.). — Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., viii, 1883, 31, part (Mexico, s. to Vera Cruz). — American Ornithol- 

 ogists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 732, part. — Sennett, Auk, iv, 1887, 28 

 (descr. young). — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Yal., 1888, 277, part (Rio Grande 

 Valley).— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 455, part. 



P[(/n(.s] atricriiflatiis Kidciway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 561, part. 



Plarux] {B[(ie(doj>hus']) alricriMatus Hellmayk, Tierreich, 18 Lief., ]Mar., 1903, 

 43, part. 



L()2)Jioph(nus (itrirristatux HxiRi), in Stan.«bury's Kep. (it. .Salt Lake, 1852, 332 (Kio 

 (irande, Texas); Rep. Pacific- K. K. 8urv., ix, 1858, 385; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, no. 286; Rep. IT. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 14 (China, 

 etc., Nuevo Leon, Mexico); Review Am. Birds, 1864, 78, part. — Cassix, 

 Illustr. Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1853, 13, part.— Butcher, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1868, 149 (Laredo, Texas).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 43 (Rio Grande 

 Valley).— Heekm ANN, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, no. 1, 1859, 12 (Fort Clark, 

 Texas; habits). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, 397 (Vera Cruz, 

 Mexico). — CoiEs, Check List, 1873, no. 29, part. — Baird, Brewer, and 



. RiiMJWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 90, part.— :Merrill (J. C), Proc. U. 



"Ten spe(;imens. 



Specimens from separate geographic area.s average, respet-tively, as followf 



Specimens from Mexico average very slightly iiinie nlivacfous ahove tiian tin>.*e 

 from the Kio Gramlc Valley, hut the difference is too slight and iiicoiistaiit to war- 

 rant separation. 



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