236 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



AIMOPHILA QUINQUESTRIATA (Sclater). 

 FIVE-STRIPEB SPARROW. 



Ackilts {sexes alike). — Above plain purplish g-rayish brown, inclining 

 to chocolate on back, the rump and upper tail-cove rt.s more grayish; 

 superciliary streak, malar streak, stripe clown middle of chin aiid upper 

 throat, and abdomen white; broad stripe on each side of chin and 

 throat, and spot in middle of chest, black; rest of under parts plain 

 dull slate-g-ray, the under tail-coverts broadly margined with white; 

 maxilla black, mandible light bluish; legs and feet light horn brownish, 

 the toes rather darker. 



Adult maIt.~-\^Qi\gi)i (skins), 133.34-140.96 (13.5.88);^ wing, 61.77- 

 73.66(71.37);' tail, 66.55-72.39(68.33);' exposed culmen, 11.43-12.70 

 (12.19);' depth of bill at base, 6.86-7.11 (6.93);' tarsus, 19.66-20.83 

 (20.32);' middle toe, 13.97-15.24 (14.73).' 



Adult female.— LiQwgth. (skin, one specimen), 144.78; Aving, 64.01- 

 71.12 (67.06); tail, 61.72-72.90 (66.55); exposed culmen, 11.43-12.45 

 (11.94); depth of bill at base (one specimen). (S.^(S: tarsus. 19.05-21.08 

 (20.32); middle toe, 13.46-15.24 (14.73).=^ 



Northwestern portion ^Mexican plateau, in States of Sonora (Alamos; 

 Camoa; Oposura), Chihuahua (near Batopilas; Hacienda de San Rafael), 

 Durango, and Jalisco (Bolanos; Mesquitic). 



Zonotriehia quinqnestriaia Sclater and Salvix, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1S68, 

 .323 (Mexico; coll. P. L. Sclater) .—Ridgway, Ibi?;., 1883, 400 (crit.).— Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, pi. 27, fig. 2. 



[Zonotriddal quinquestriata Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7386. — Sclater and 

 SALVI^■, Nora. Av. Neotr., 1873, 31. 



AmpJiisplza quhupiestriata SAhws and Godman, P>iol. Centr.-Am., i, 1886, 368. — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 632. 



AIMOPHILA MYSTACALIS (Hartlaub). 

 BRIDLED SPARROW, 



About the size of ^1. JnniK rails., but wing, tail, and tarsus averaging 

 longer and bill smaller; lesser wing-coverts blackish or dusky and 

 rump plain rusty or cinnamon-rufoits. 



Adults {sexes alihj. — Pileum and hindneck grayish, streaked with 

 dusky; sides of head dull brownish gray or dusky, relieved by a white 

 supraloral stripe and a white malar stripe; upper throat black, some- 

 times intermixed with white along the median line, the chin usualh' 

 white; lower throat and chest light olive-gray or dull ash gray; sides, 

 flanks, and under tail-coverts cinnamon-bufi'; breast and abdomen dull 

 white; back and scapulars brown, streaked with black; rump plain 



^ Four specimens. "^Sixteen specimens. ^Eleven specimens. 



