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cinnamon-rufous or rusty; tail dusky, witli ligliter edgings; wings 

 dull black or dusky, with more or less distinct lighter edgings, the 

 middle and greater coverts tipped with white, forming two bands; 

 maxilla black, mandible light colored (pale grayish blue in life); iris 

 brown; legs and feet light colored (pale flesh-colored in life). 



Young. — Throat blackish laterally, broadly dull whitish, flecked 

 with dusky, medially; chest dull whitish, streaked with dusk}-; pileum 

 and hindneck light grayish brown streaked with dusky: white supra- 

 loral spot, malar stripe, and wing-bands more or less yellowish or 

 ))uft'y; otherwise essentialh' like adults. 



Adult ;//7/Z6^— Length (skins), 149.86-1(30.02 (153.6T); wing, 65.28- 

 72.39 (70.10); tail, 74.17-82.55 (78.74); exposed culmen, 10.92-13.46 

 (12.70): tarsus, 21.34-22.86(21.84); middle toe, 14.73-16.51 (15.24). ^ 



Adult female.— hQwgth. (skins), 142.24-152.40 (146.56); wing, 64.01- 

 68.07 (65.79); tail, 73.66-80.77 (76.20); exposed culmen, 11.43-12.95 

 (12.19): tarsus, 21.59-22.35 (21.59); middle toe, 14.73-15.75 (15.49).- 



Southern extremity of Mexican plateau, in States of Vera Cruz (Ori- 

 zaba), Puebla (Rio Frio, Tehuacan, Atlixco, Chietla, etc.). and Oaxaca 

 (San Carlos; Mitla; Oaxaca; Cuicatlan). 



Zonotrkhia niystacalis Hartlaub, Rev. Zool., 1853, 2 (Rio Frio, Puebla, and City 



of Mexico; Bremen and Hamburg museums). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1856, 305 {i'. Mexico); 1859, 379 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Bird^, 



1862, 113 (Mexico).— Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Xat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 21 



(Tehuacan, Puebla). 

 \_Zonotrichia'\ mtjstacalk Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7385. — Sclatek and 



Salvix, Nom. Av. Xeotr., 1873, 31. 

 F-l^oospizti] mydacalis Ridgw.w, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway'n Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 589. 

 Amphinpiza nvjfitncalis Ridgway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 143. — Ferkaki- 



Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 143 (Chietla, Puebla). 

 A-lmphispizal mi/stacalis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 426. 

 Hxmnphila mystacalis Salvin and Godmax, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, .sig. 50, 



Aug., 1886, 398 (Tehuacan, Puelila; Oaxaca).— Sharpe, Cat. Birdy Brit. 



Mus., xii, 1888, 728 ("San Juan del Rio, Mexico;" Puebla; Oaxaca). 



AIMOPHILA HUMERALIS Cabanis. 

 FERRARI-PEREZ' S SPARROW. 



Adulfi^ {se.resalil'e).'^ — Head and neck (except chin and throat) dusky 

 (becoming or approaching black anteriorly), relieved b\' a supraloral 

 spot and a malar stripe of white; a narrow stripe on each side of throat 

 and a broad band across chest black; rest of under parts chiefl}' white, 



^ Fourteen specimens. 



^ Six specimens. 



^Females may pos^^ilily average slightly duller in color than males, hut if the speci- 

 mens examined are correctly sexed there is decidedly no constant difference in tliis 

 respect. 



