252 BULLETIlSr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Penr;r<i hoiirnrili (not Zonotrirhhi Ixynntrdi Sclater) S.vi.vix aii<l (tod.man. Biol. 



Centr.-Ain., Aves, i, 1886.891, part (Texas). 

 Peuc.ra rKjicep:^ boucardi Sexnett, Auk, v, Jan., 1888, 42, part (crit.; Kendall and 



Presidio counties, Texas). 

 {^Pencart rnficepii.} Suhsp. ^. Pevnrn ha ucdrdi i>n.\RPK, Cat. Bird.'^ Brit. Mns., xii, 



1888, 714, part (in synonymy 1. 



AIMOPHILA RUP'ICEPS BOUCARDI (Sclater). 

 BOTTCARDS SPARROW. 



Similar to A. r. erema'ca ])ut doeidedly darker, with the o-eneral 

 color of back, etc., deep hair brown instead of smoke g'ray or ashy, 

 dorsal streaks darker (dark l)ister or Vandyke brown), chestnut of 

 pileum darker, and iinderparts more .strono-ly shaded with g-rayish on 

 chest and sides. 



Adult ;;m//..— Length (skins), 137.16-154.94 (142.49); wing, 60.45- 

 69.09 (64.01): tail, 62.23-74.93 (66.55); exposed culmen, 11.18-12.70 

 (12.19); depth of bill at base (seven specimens). 6.35-6.86 (6.60); 

 tarsus, 19.05-21.84 (20.32); middle toe, 14.73-16.00 (15.49).' 



Adult female.— IjQwgth. (skins), 146.05-152.40 (149.86); wing, 63.75- 

 70.61 (67.56); tail. 70.61-74.93 (72.64); exposed culmen, 11.68-12.45 

 (12.19); depth of bill at Imse, 6.86-7.37 (7.11); tarsus, 20.83-21.84 

 (21.34); middle toe. 15.24.- 



Eastern portion of Mexican plateau, from southeastern Tamaulipas 

 (Sierra Madre above Ciudad Victoria). San Luis Potosi (mountains 

 near Jesus Maria; Villar). Coahuila (Carneros). Hidalgo (Tulancingo; 

 Pachuca). and Vera Cruz (temperate region), to- States of Tlaxcala, 

 Puebla (Tochimulco). Mexico (Tlalpam). and (iruererro (Tixtla). 



Ammodromufi ■? Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 214 (Orizaba, Vera 



Cruz). 

 Zoriotrlchia boucardi Scl.\ter, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 1, pi. 1 (La Puebla, 



Puebla, s. Mexico; coll. P. L. Sclater). 

 {Aninwdramus'] boucardi Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 96, no. 7430. 

 [Peucc-Efl] boucardi Sclater and Salvin, Noni. Av. Neotr., 1873, 32. 

 Peucxa boucardi Sa-i^xitx and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, .391, part 



(Orizaba and temperate reg. Vera Cruz; La Puebla and Puente Colorado, 



Puebla). 

 IPeuciva rnficeps'\ var. boucardi Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's 



Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 38, part (excl. loc. Oaxaca). 

 Peucasaruficeps y&r. bo^tcardi La\vrenc-e, Bull. U. S. Nat Mus.,. no. 4, 1876, 21, 



(Puente Colorado, Puebla). 

 P. [("uoa-'a] ruficeps boucardi Ridgway, ]Man. X. Am. Birds, 1887, 429, part. 

 Peucxa ruficeps boucardi Sexxett, Auk, v, Jan., 1888, 42, part (Orizaba; Puebla; 



City of Mexico). 



^ Twenty specimens. 



^ Three specimens. The apparently greater average size of the females is undi)ubt- 

 edly owing to the great disparity of numbers of the two series measured, together 

 with probable erroneous sexing of some specimens. 



