208 



kullp:tin 50, united states national museum. 



dull whitish), iiud, tog-ether with the ehest, unstreaked; maxilla brown- 

 ish black or dusky })rown; mandible brownish, dusk}^ at tip; iris brown; 

 length (skins), 154.9-180.3 (165.9); wing, 93.5-104.6 (101.1); tail, 

 61.7-70.4(66.8); culmen, from base, 15.2-17 (16); depth of bill at base, 

 10.2-11.2 (10.9); tarsus, 24.1-26.4 (25.4); middle toe, 15.7-18.8 (17).' 



YdiijHj male. — Above varying from dark hair brown to sooty gray- 

 ish brown, the feathers with narrow pale grayish brown and whitish 

 margins (these usually indistinct and often obsolete on pileum and 

 hindnock), the wing-coverts and tertiais more broadly and conspicu- 

 ously margined with dull buffy whitish; under parts conspicuously 

 streaked with sooty grajnsh brown or hair ])rown and dull buffy or 

 whitish, the latter on margins or lateral edges of feathers, the darker 

 color prevailing anteriorly; maxilla dark brownish, mandible paler; 

 legs and feet brownish. 



Yo K II <j female. — Similar to the young male but paler, especiallj^ the 

 under parts, which are principally dull light buffy streaked with gray- 

 ish brown. 



Temperate North America in general, except portions of Pacific coast; 

 north to about 49^ in more eastern portions, to 55^ 30' (Little Slave 

 Lake, etc.) in the interior; west to British Columbia (both sides of Cas- 

 cade range), Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and southeastern Califor- 

 nia; south in winter to central and southeastern Mexico (Jalapa and 

 Orizaba, Vera Cruz; Huexotitla, Puebla; Hacienda San Juan Capis- 

 trano, Zacatecas; Cozumel Island, Yucatan, etc.); breeding south to 

 Georgia (Wayne and Mcintosh counties), Louisiana (Petite Anse 

 Island), and Texas (Harris and Bexar counties). 



Onolns (Iter Boddaert, Tal)l. PI. Enl., 1783, 37 ( leased on Troupiale, dela Caroline, 

 Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 606, fig. 1). 



[Molothrus'] aler Gr.4y, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 36, no. 6507. 



Molothrns nter Coues, Check List, 1873, 43, footnote; 2d ed., 1882, no. 313; Cull. 

 U. S. Geol. ani Geog. Surv. Terr., iii, 1877, 667 (n. Texas) .—Baird, Orn. 

 Simpson's Exp., 1876, 379 (Utah).— Ridgway, Field and Forest, 1877, 208 

 (Colorado) ; Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 258; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 

 151 (Huexotitla, Puebla; crit.);Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 310.— Brewster, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 123 (descr. young).— Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



' Fifteen specimens. 



Eastern specimens and a smaller western series average as follows: 



