116 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(0.40); depth of bill ut base, 7.11-7.37; tarsus, 1:>.19-13.21 (12.70); 

 middle toe, 9.65-10.1:1 (y.Ol).' 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 97.03; wing, 61.21; tail. 3S.10; 

 exposed oulmen, 9.40; tarsus, 12.70; middle toe, 9.91.^ 



Southwestern border of United States, from western Texas to central 

 California, and south into northwestern Mexico, in States of Chihua- 

 hua, Sonora, and Durango (Chacala); north, at least occasionally to 

 Colorado. 



This is scarcely a detinite form, l)ut is rather a series of specimens 

 connecting .1. p. jistdtria and ^1. j). mexicatius, hardly two examples 

 being exactly alike, and the geographic range not very definite. The 

 name may be retained, however, as a convenient means of designating 

 the intergrading series in question. 



Chrifsomitris mexicana (not Carduells niccicanus Swainson) Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 423, part (Copper Mines, Arizona) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, no. 315, part.— Coues, Ibi>^, 1865, 159, 161, in text (Fort Whipple, 

 Arizona). 



Chrysomitrls {Pseudomiiris) mexkanui< Var. arizoiuc Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1866, 82, in synonymy (Fort Wingate, New Mexico, or Fort Whipple, 

 Arizona;* U. S. Nat. Mns.?). 



[_Chrysomitris Pseudomiiris mexicuiu(.'<.'\ [C. var. arizonH'^ Coces, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1866, 82. 



Chrysomitrid mexicana, var. arizonx Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwav, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, pi. 22, fig. 11. 



ICJirysomitris mexicanus.] Yar. arizonx Baird, in Cooper's Orn. Cal.,1870, 170 

 (Arizona). 



Chrysomitris mexicami arizontc Sennett, Bnll. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., 

 V, 1879, 390 (Lomita, Texas, May). 



IChrysomitris jisidtria.] Var. arizome Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, Oct., 1872, 132. 



Chrysomitris -psaltria var. arizonx Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Dec, 1872, 454, 

 footnote. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 476; 

 iii, 1874, 509 (30 m. n. of San Diego, 3Iay 7, and near San Buenaventura, Cal- 

 ifornia, Jan. ). 



Chrysomitris psaltria . . . var. «/-ao;i.'t; Coues, Check List, 1874, No. 151o. — Hen- 

 SHAW, Rep. Orn. Si^ec. Wheeler's Survey, 1873 (1874), 109 (Gila R., Arizona, 

 Sept.); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 245, pi. 4, fig. 1 (Gila R., Camp 

 Grant, and Apache, Arizona; Santa Fe, New Mexico). 



Chrysomitris psaltria arizon.x GooDB, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 313. 



[Chrysomitris psaltria'] b. arizonse Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 117 (synonj^my). 



Astragaliiius psaltria arizonx Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, April, 1880, 96; 

 Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 216.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 

 1880, 177, 216, 232; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 128o; Auk, xvi, 1899.— 

 American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 116. 



^ Eleven specimens. 



- One specimen. 



^Neither type specimen nor type locality were designated; four specimens are men- 

 tioned by National 3Iuseum catalogue numbers, namely, 37088, 37091, and 37092, 

 from Fort Wingate, New Mexico, and 39094, from Fort Whipple, Arizona, of which 

 only the last, apparently, is now in the National Museum collection. The form is 

 characterized, inferentially, on page 83. 



