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(10.41): depth of bill, 0.86-7.11 (7.11); tarsus, 18.29-18.54 (18.29); 

 middle toi\ 12. 70-13.72 (13.21).' 



AdxM^/^^male.— Length (skins), 123.19-133.35 (130.05); wing, 59.44- 

 63.50 (61.21); tail, 61.72-67.31 (65.53); exposed culmen, 9.65-10.67 

 (10.16); depth of bill at base, 6.35-7.11 {i).Si)); tarsus, 18.29-19.81 

 (18.80); middle toe, 13.21-13.72 (13.46).' 



Southern Arizona (north to Tueson and Camp Lowell) and south- 

 ward through Sonora (Alamos, Ortiz, Granados, etc.) to northern 

 Sinaloa (Culiacan). 



Peucsea earpalis Coues, Anier. Nat., vii, June, 1873, 322 (Tucson, Arizona; U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.); Check List, 1873, no. 171 bis; 2d ed., 1882, no. 2.57.— BAinn, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 46, tig. 8; iii, 1874, 

 515.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 159 (s. e. 

 Arizona); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 291 (Camp Lowell, Arizona; 

 habits, etc.). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 229. — Bendire, 

 Orn. and Ool., vii, 1882, 121 (habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Brewster, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 195 (Tucson and Camp Lowell, Arizona).— 

 Stephens, Auk, ii, 1885, 228 (s. Arizona). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 579.— Scott, Auk, iv, 1887, 203 (Santa Cata- 

 linaMts., s. Arizona, 3,000-4,500 ft. ).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 

 1888, 715.— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 39 (Granados, n. e. 

 Sonora ) . 



J^leiicica] carjxilis Coues, Key X. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 375. — Ridgway, Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 4:W. 



Aimopldla atrpalwHiDaw w , Auk, xvi, Jan., 1899, 81. — American' Ornithologists' 

 Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 119. 



AIMOPHILA NOTOSTICTA ( Sclater and Salvin). 

 OAXACA SPARROW. 



Very similar in coloration to ^1. rvftseens rufescens^ but much smaller, 

 and bill entirely black; broad lateral crown-stripes darker (yandyke 

 brown instead of chestnut); black streaks on back broader; tail hair . 

 brown instead of chestnut-brown, and wings very much less ruf escent*'. . 



Adults {sexes alike). — Bill wholly black; pileum chiefly yandyke 

 brown; back grayish brown, broadly streaked with black; wings mainly 

 grayish brown, the tertials inclining to chestnut-brown on edges; tail ' 

 hair brown; sides of head and neck, including broad superciliary stripe ' 

 (becoming white anteriorly), brownish gray, this passing into a more i 

 brownish hue on sides of breast; a distinct white orbital ring, sur- 

 rounded by dusky; a broad postocular streak of dark brown; malail 

 stripe, chin, throat, and abdomen dull buffy whitish; a blackish suWi 

 malar streaks <^ 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 160.02; wing, 69.85; tail, 80.01; exposed* 

 culmen, 12.45; depth of bill at base^ 7.37; tarsus, 23.37; middle toe, 

 17,!^7; graduation of tail, 15.24.- 



^ Six specimens. "^ One specimen. 



