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Young. — Essentially like summer adults but lower back, rump, 

 .and u|)per tail-coverts (especially the last) more cinnamomeous (cin- 

 , namomeous wood brown), remiges and rectrices much darker (dark 

 grayish brown), tertials broadly margined with bufl'y wood ])rown or 

 grayish buff, larger wing-coverts broadly and distinctly (but not 

 abruptly) tipped with cinnamon-buff, and under parts (except chin, 

 throat, and abdomen) narrowly streaked with grayish brown. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 232-247 (240); wing, 103-107.5 

 (105.7); tail, 108-115 (111.4); exposed culmen, 21.5-25.5 (24.3); 

 tarsus, 33-34.5 (33.8); middle toe, 22-24 (23.2)." 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 227-247 (235) ; wing, 07.5-1805. 

 (103.2); tail, 101.5-115.5 (107.8); exposed culmen, 21.5-25.5 (23.4); 

 tarsus, 31.5-34.5 (33.2); middle toe, 21.5-24.5 (22.7).^ 



Desert districts (Upper and Lower Sonoran zones) of Arizona, 

 southeastern California (Colorado Desert) and northern Sonora 

 (Ortiz); southward in winter to southern Sonora (Guaymas; Camoa; 

 Alamos), and northern Sinaloa (Culiacan); accidental in Colorado 

 (Austins Blufl", near Colorado Springs, one specimen, May 8, 1882). 



Harporkynchns bendirci Coues, Am. Nat., vii, June, 1873, 330. footnote (Tucson, 

 Arizona; colL, Dr. E. Coues c); Check List, 1873, no. 11 bis. — Baird. Brewer, 

 and RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 500. — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 65 (Tucson, Arizona; crit.; habits); vii, 1882, 09 (Camp 

 Lowell and Tucson, Arizona; crit.; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — B elding, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 343 (Guaymas, Sonora). — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 708.^Scott, Auk, v, 1888, 161 

 (s. Arizona; hal)its; song). — Cooke, Bull. 37, Col. Agric. Coll., 1897, 120 

 (Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1 spec. May 8. 1882). — Brown (H.), Auk, xviii, 

 1901, 225-231 (range; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Heller, Condor, iii. 

 1901, 100 (Warrens Wells, Colorado Desert, California, May). 



Ilarporhynchvs brndiri Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi, 1873. 108 (descr. 

 eggs). 



Harporhynchus bendirii Coues, Birds Col. Vol.. 1878, 67; Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 

 no. 21.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, bS8l, .356.— Brewster, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 57, 153 (Austins Bluff, near Colorado Springs, 

 Colorado, Ispec, May 8, 1882). 



n[arpor]iynchus] bendirii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed.. 1884, 252. 



H[arporhynchus] bcndirei RinowAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 545; — Nehrling, 

 Our Native Birds, i, 1893, 65.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., i, 1903. 287. 



Harporhynchus cinerevs . . . var. bcndirei Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's 

 Surv., 1875, 154 (s. e. Arizona); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 154 (crit,; 

 Camp Lowell, Arizona). 



Ilarporhynchus cinereus bendirei Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 

 167, 214; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 14a. 



M[cthrioptcr7is] bendirci Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. v, sig. 3, June 12, 1882, 45, 

 in text. 



a Ten specimens. 



b Eight specimens. 



c The types afterwards presented to the collection of the U. S. National Museum. 



