BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMHRICA. 237 



Adult female. — Pileum and hindneck sepia brown or bistre; rest of 

 upper parts dark soot}^ brown or blackish brown, faintly glossed with 

 greenish; a more or less distinct superciliary stripe of lighter buffy 

 brown or brownish buff; beneath this a more or less distinct postocular 

 streak of duskj" brown; auricular region, sides of neck, chest, and 

 sides light brownish (varying from broccoli brown to isabella color); 

 chin, throat, and abdomen similar but paler; flanks, thighs, anal 

 region, and under tail-coverts dusky brown. 



Young. — Similar to adult female, but browner and without gloss 

 above and more bufl'y beneath, the abdomen, chin, and throat whitish 

 or pale bufi:y, the chest cinnamon-buff. 



AcMt ;>?^/k— Length (skins), 365.8-393.7(381.5); wing, 175.8-189.2 

 (182.4); tail, 162.1-186.4 (170.7); culmen, from base, 41.7-46 (43.7); 

 depth of bill at base, 13.2-14.7 (14); tarsus, 49-54.6 (51.1); middle 

 toe, 33-38.4 (35.3).^ 



Adult female.— \j^xvgi\i (skins), 294.6-307.3 (302.3); wing, 133.4- 

 146.1 (142.7); tail, 124.5-135.9 (129.5); culmen, from base, 34.8-38.4 

 (37.1); depth of bill at base, 11.4-12.2 (11.9); tarsus, 40.1-43.7 (42.4); 

 middle toe, 27.9-30.5 (28.5).- 



South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States (including whole of 

 Florida); north to coast of Virginia (islands above Cape Charles), west 

 to coast of Texas (where grading into M. m. macrourus). 

 Graculaharita (not of Linnseus) Wilson, Am. Orn., vi, 1812, index. 

 Quiscalus baritus V^ABODX , Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 285 (Massachusetts?). — Lins- 



LEY, Am. Journ. Sci., xliv, 1843, 260 (Connecticut?). 

 Gracula qui^cala (not of Linnaeus) Ord, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1818, 253. 



Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 396, part (Bogota).— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1866; 410 (monogr.; Bogota).— Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, .330 (Cienaga, 

 Colombia).— Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 323, 751 (w. Peru); 

 Orn. du P^rou, ii, 1885, 431.— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 270 (Colom- 

 bia. — (?) Robinson, Flying Trip to Tropics, 1895, 161 (Barranquilla, Colom- 

 bia).— (?) Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xiii, 1900, 162 (Cienega, prov. 

 Santa Marta). 

 {^Quiscalusl ossirmfe Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 38. 

 Scaphidurus major assimilis Ridgway, Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., iii, Apr. 15, 1901, 



152. 

 (iuiscalus macrurus (not of Swainson) Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1887, 482, part (Colombia; w. Peru). 

 I have not been able to examine a specimen of this supposed form from the type 

 locality. Messrs. Salvin and Godman refer it to M. m. macro^inis; but if the measure- 

 ments given by Dr. Sclater are correct it can not be the same. Dr. Sclater refers 

 specimens from Veragua and the Isthmus of Panama to his Quiscalus asKimilis, and 

 restricts the range of Q. macrourus to Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras; but the 

 Veraguan and Panama examples which I have seen, also those from Cartagena, 

 Colombia, are certainly M. m. maa-otirus. Therefore, if there is such a subspecies as 

 M. major assimilis, it is probably restricted to central Colombia and southward. 

 ^ Eight specimens. 

 ^ Nine specimens. 



