BIRDS OF ]S^ORTH AXD MIDDLE AMERICA. 259 



Peuaea arizome Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mu.«., i, 1878, 127 (Fort Brown, Texas; 

 crit.); -Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 227.— Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 i, 1878, 127 (Fort Brown, Texas; habits; descr. eggs) .—Scott, Auk, ii, 1885, 

 226 (Santa Cruz Valley, Arizona). — American Ornitholo(;ists' Union, 

 Check List, 1886, no. 576.— Rhoads, Proc. Aca<l. Xat. Sci. Phila., 1892, 121 

 (Tucson and Oracle, Arizona; habits; song). 



P.[euciea^ arizona' Brewer, Ibis, Apr., 1878, 205, in text (Fort Brown, Texas). 



Peucvca xstivalis arizomv Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 253. 



P-leiicsea} ie.[stivaHs'] arizonne Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 188-1, 374. 



[Peiiava {estivaUs.'\ Subsp. /?. Peuaea arizonie Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 

 1888, 710 (Crittenden, Arizona). 



Cot urn I ruins me.vicanus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, May, 1867, 

 474 (plains of Colima, s. w. Mexico; U.S.Nat. Mus.). 



Peucxa mexicana Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii. May 23, 1885, 98, 99 

 (syn. ; crit.). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 577. — 

 Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val.,1888, 207 (Fort Brown, Texas). 



P.^eucosal me.rleanK Ridgway, ]Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 428. 



Peucsea, sp. (?) IIenshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 118 

 (Camp Grant, Arizona; descr. young). 



Peucxa sestivalis (not FringiUa aestiraJis Lichtenstein) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xii, 1888, 709, part (Putla, Oaxaca, Mexico). 



AIMOPHILA BOTTERII SARTORII Ridgway. 

 HtTATtrSCO SPARROW. 



Similar to ^4. h. hotterii, but very much darker, the ground color of the 

 upper parts sooty graj'ish or dark smoke gray, with the darker mark- 

 ings very heav}^; under parts less buiffy, the chest and sides varying 

 from pale smoky buff to light dral)-gray. 



A(7)jlts {sexes alike). — Above brownish gray, heavil}' streaked with 

 dull black, these black streaks broadest on the back, where more or 

 less edged with rusty brown (unless edges of feathers are worn off), nar- 

 rowest, and more suffused with brown on hindneck; edge of wing light 

 yellow, the lesser coverts tinged or suffused with the same; sides of 

 head (including broad superciliar}- stripe) dull brownish gray, relieved 

 b}' a narrow postocular streak of dusk}- brown; under parts dull whit- 

 ish, the chest pale brownish buffy, the sides and flanks more strongly 

 buff}' (the flanks more or less streaked with dusky), the anal region 

 and under tail-coverts clear buff'; sides of throat sometimes margined 

 with a narrow dusk}" submalar streak; maxilla dusky, broadly mar- 

 gined with pale grayish on tomium; mandil^le pale grayish (in dried 

 skins); legs and feet pale brown or brownish bufl'y. 



Adult male.— J^ength (skins), 129. 03-144-. 78 (13S.l;^); wing, 51.S6- 

 58.93 (.57.15); tail, 53. 09-57. CO (56.13); exposed culmen, 12. 70-13. 97 

 (13.21); depth of bill at base, 7.62-S.13 (7.87); tarsus, 20.32-21.08 

 (20.83); middle toe, 11.73-16.00 (15.21).^ 



.l^/;^///;y>^^/A.— Length (skins), 129.. 51-136. 65 (132.81); wing. 56.64- 

 59.69 (58.42); tail, 54.10-57.91 (56.39); exposed culmen, 12.19-12.95 



' Seven specimens. 



