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feet dusky horn color in dried skins, ''varying from plumbeous-brown 

 to greenish ohve" in hfe." 



Adults in autumn and winter. — Simihir to the spring and summer 

 phi in age but color of upper parts deeper and grayer (soft drab-gray) ; 

 chest (broadly) light drab-gray, strongly contrasted with white of 

 throat, and breast and upper abdomen duller, more buffy whitish. 



Young. — Similar to the spring and summer adult plumage but 

 slightly paler, especially on rump ; under parts more buffy with under 

 tail-coverts much paler buff; upper tail-coverts pale wood brown or 

 isal)ella color. 



Adult ma/e.— Length (skins), 240-266 (255); wing, 95-101 (98.1); 

 tail, 114-126.5 (121.7);, exposed culmen, 30-34.5 (32.8); tarsus, 

 28. 5-32 (31); middle toe, 20-22 (21.1).^ 



' Adult female.— luen^ili (skins), 237-260 (250) ; wing, 93-97.5(95.4); 

 tail, 114.5-127(118.7); exposed culmen, 30-35.5(32.7); tarsus, 

 30.5-32 (31.3); middle toe, 21-22.5 (21.5).^ 



Deserts (Lower Sonoran zone) of southwestern Utah (west of 

 Beaverdam Mountains), southern Nevada (Vegas, Pahrump, and 

 Indian Spring valleys), southern California (Iiwo, Kern, San Bernar- 

 dino, eastern Riverside, and eastern San Diego'' counties), Arizona, 

 and northwestern Sonora (south to Capr ^.ooos). 



Toxostovia le contei Lawrence, Ann. Lye. ->at. H' ,l. N. Y., v, 1852 (pub. Sept., 

 1851), 121 (near junction of Gila and Colorado rivers, Arizona; coll. G.N. 

 Lawrence; also lower Gila R., Arizona). 



Toxostoma lecontei Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 329 (Gila R.). — 

 Richmond, Auk, xix, 1902, 89, in text. — American Ornithologists' Union 

 Committee, Auk, xix, 1902, 328. — Bailey (Florence M.\ Ilandb. Birds 

 W. U.S., 1902, 441. 



[Toxostoma] leconlci Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903. 108. 



Toxostoma lecontei lecontei Grinnell (J.), Pacilic Coast Avifauna, no. 3, June, 1902, 

 67 (California range). 



Harporhynchiis Zeconin Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxviii, 1854,57; Notes Orn. 

 Coll. Delattre, 1854, 39.— Baird, Rep. Pa(,-ific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 350; ed. 

 1860 (Birds N. Am.), atlas, pi. 50; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 

 1859, 12, pi. 12; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 257.— Sciater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1859, 339 (monogr.).— Cooper, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., ii, 1861, 122 (Mojave 

 R.); Orn. Cal., 1870, 17.— Coues, Ibis, 1866, 259 (Fort Mojave, Arizona).— 

 Brewster, Auk, ii, 1885,196 (near Point Lobos, Sonora; crit.; descr. ygung). — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1886, 361. 



Harporhynchiis lecontei B.a.ird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 47. — Cooper, Am. Nat., 

 iii, 1869, 188 (Mojave Desert).— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., xviii, 1866, 



65 (near Fort Mojave; habits). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgw.w, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, i, 1874, pi. 4, fig. 3.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 



66 (Phoenix, Arizona; crit.; habits, etc.); vii, 1882, 73 (Forty-five mile 

 Desert, Arizona; habits, descr. nest and eggs, crit., etc.). — Stephens, Auk, i, 

 1884, 355 (Agua Caliente, Colorado Desert; habits, etc., pp. 353-358); ii, 



oDr. Edgar A. Mearns, in Auk, iii, 1886, '302. 



b Ten specimens. 



cPalm Springs, breeding. 



