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tail-coverts ; suborbital region and anterior portion of auricular region 

 (lull whitish, the feathers margined with dusky; rest of auricular region 

 light grayish brown, anteriorly more or less streaked with whitish; 

 malar region dull wliitish, the feathers sometimes narrowly tipped 

 with dusky; chin and throat margined laterally by a distinct submalar 

 streak or narrow stripe of dusky; bill dull black, becoming more horn 

 colored on basal portion of gonys; iris brown; legs and feet dusky 

 horn color (in dried sldns). 



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

 plumage, but coloration slightly darker and gra3^er. 



Young. — Similar in coloration to spring and summer adults, but 

 cinnamon-rufous of under parts, etc., slightly paler and duller, upper 

 tail-coverts browner, and texture of plumage much looser. 



Adult male.— hength (skins), 273-297 (284); wdng, 96-105 (100.3); 

 tail, 133-150.5 (140.1); exposed culmen, 32-38.5 (35.3); tarsus, 31.5- 

 34.5 (32.8); middle toe, 21.5-22.5 (21.9).« 



Ad.ultfeinale.—'Length (skins), 252-311 (279) ; wing, 93.5-102.5 (99) ; 

 tail, 123-145 (136.3); exposed culmen, 33.5-37.5 (35.1); tarsus, 30.5- 

 34.5 (31.7); middle toe, 19-23 (21).^ 



Deserts of western Texas (Fort Hancock, Ysleta, Franklin Moun- 

 tains, El Paso County, Brewster County, etc.). New Mexico (Otero, San 

 Miguel, Grant, and Donna Ana counties), Arizona, southern Ufah (St. 

 George, lower Santa Clara Valley), southeastern Nevada (Vegas and 

 Virgin valleys; Charleston Mountains), southern California (San 

 Bernardino, eastern Riverside, and eastern San Diego counties), 

 northern Lower California (Seven Wells and Gardners Laguna, Salton 

 River; Trinidad Valley), and northern Sonora (Florido; Senoyta, 

 January) . 



Toxostoma crissalis Henry, Proc. Nat. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.. x, 1858, 117 (Rio Mim- 

 bres, New Mexico; coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.) — Richmond, Auk, xix, 1902, 

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

 329. — Grinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 67 (California range). — 

 Stone and Rehn, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1903, 29 (Dry Canon, Otero Co., 

 New Mexico).— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 442.— 

 SwARTH, Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 4, 1904, 59 (HuachucaMts., Arizona, rare). 



[Toxostoma] a'issalc Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 108. 



Toxostoma crissalc Montgomery, Auk, xxii, 1905. 15 (Brewster Co., Texas, locally 

 common) . 



Harporhynchus crissalis Bairu, Rep. Pacific li. R. Surv.. ix, 1858, 351; ed. 1860 

 (Birds N. Am.), atlas, pi. 82; Cat. N. Am. Bhds, 1859, no. 258; Review Am. 

 Birds, 1864, 47(Mimbres, NewMexico; Fort Yuma, California). — Henry, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xi, 1859, 107 (New Mexico).— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1859, 339 (monogr.).— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xviii, 1866, 

 65 (FortMojave, Arizona); Am. Nat., vi, 1872, 370 (descr. eggs); vii, 1873, 328 

 (crit.); Check List, 1873, no. 14; 2d ed., 1882, no. 25; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 

 73.— Cooper, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 473 (Fort Mojave); Orn. Cal., 1870, 18 (Fort 



a Ten specimens. b Nine specimens. 



