474 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATE^^ NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female in .spring and summer. — Similar to the male of corre- 

 sponding season, and not always distinguishable, but usually with the 

 chestnut crown-patch more restricted (rarely obsolete) and chestnut of 

 both crown-patch and upper tail-coverts lighter or less intense. 



Young, Jirst plumage. — Essentially like adults, but much clearer 

 white beneath; no trace of chestnut on crown; upper tail-coverts 

 ochraceous-buff instead of chestnut; middle and greater wing-coverts 

 tipped with whitish or pale bufl'y, producing two rather distinct bars. 



Adult wiaZe.— Length (skins)', 91.4-102.9 (98.3);^ wing, 55.1-58.2 

 (56.9); tail, 41.1-43.9 (42.9); exposed culmen, 8.4-8.9 (8.4); tarsus, 

 16-16.5 (16.3).' 



Adidi female.— ijQ\\^t\i (skins), 91.9-95.2 (93.5);' wing, 51.6-52.8 

 (52.1); tail, 37.3-39.9 (38.6); exposed culmen, 7.6-8.9 (8.4); tarsus, 

 15.5-15.7 (15.5).* 



Arizona, southwestern Utah (lower Santa Clara Valley), and south- 

 ward through Sonora and other States of western Mexico to Jalisco 

 (Bolanos; San tana). 



Helminiliopluiga lueur Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., July, 1862, 120 (Fort Mojave, 

 Arizona; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Amer. Nat., iii, 1869, 476, 479; Orn. Cal., 

 1870, 84.— Bairi), Review Am. Birds, 1865, 178.— Coues, Ibis, 1866, 260 (Fort 

 Whipple, Arizona); Am. Nat., vi, 1872, 493 (Tucson, Arizona; descr. sup- 

 posed nest and eggs); Check List, 1873, no. 65; 2d ed. 1882, no. 104; Birds 

 Col. Val., 1878, 219.— Elliot, Illustr. New and Unfig. N. Am. Birds, i, 1869, 

 pi. 5. — Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1873, 107 (descr. supposed nest 

 and eggs). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 200, 

 pi. II, fig. 9; iii, 1874, 504 (Tucson, Arizona, breeding). — Henshaw, Zool. 

 Exped. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 190 (Camp Lowell, Arizona).— Ridgway, 

 Ibis, 1876, 170; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 83. 



[Helminthophaga] lucix Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 94. 



Hl^dmbithophaga'] ludx Ridgway, Ibis, 1876, 168 (diagnosis). 

 ■ IMniotlUa] luciie Gr\y, Hand-list, i, 1869, 239, no. 3426.— Giebel, Thesaurus Orn., 

 ii, 1875, 603. 



Helmmthophiki lucUe Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Jan., 1882, 54. — Brew- 

 ster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 82 (Cienega Station, etc., Arizona; hab- 

 its, nest and eggs, descr. young, etc.) — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 

 1885, 248, 641. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 

 643.— Fisher, N. Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 117 (lower Santa Clara Valley, s. w. 

 Utah, breeding). 



Hlehniiithophila'] liicix Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 294. — Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 490. 



Helmintophila lucias Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 188. 



' Length before skinning, 109.2-114.3 (III); extremes and average of twelve speci- 

 mens; see Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 84, 85. 



^ Five specimens. 



'Length before skinning, 104.1-114.3 (108.7); extremes and average of thirteen 

 specimens; see Brewster, as cited above. 



* Three specimens. 



