BIRDS O^ NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 407 



green (the tertials more gra3'ish), the middle and greater wing-coverts 

 sometimes narrowl}" tipped with 3'ellowish; edge of wing canary yel- 

 low; sides of breast grayish, this passing posteriorly into light Iniffy 

 olive on flanks; under tail-coverts dull huffy, with central (mostly con- 

 cealed) portions of the feathers darker; bill black; tarsi and toes light 

 brownish. 



Young. — Pileum brown, narrowh" streaked with black, the forehead 

 more dusky and with more or less of a median streak of dull whitish 

 or pale buff'y; superciliary stripe less distinct than in adults, pale 

 bufi'y or buff'y whitish, more or less streaked or flecked with dusky; 

 malar region, chin, throat, and median under parts pale yellowish 

 buff'y, more or less streaked with dusky, especially across chest, where 

 the streaks are broad and distinct and quite black; back, scapulars, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts olive-brownish, the first streaked with 

 blackish; otherwise essentially like adults, but black on sides of head 

 duller and larger wing-coverts narrowly tipped with rusty buff'. 



Adult «i«Zd.— Length (skins), 208.28-216.66 (211.07); wing, 79.25- 

 91.95 (85.85); tail, 94.23-105.92 (100.58); exposed culmen, 15.24-17.78 

 (16.26); tarsus, 28.45-32.51 (30.73); middle toe, 20.32-22.35 (21.34); 

 hind claw, 12.19-14.48 (13.21).^ 



Adult female.— l^Qngih. (skins), 181.36-207.01 (196.85); wing, 81.53- 

 86.87 (83.82); tail, 88.90-99.06 (95.00); exposed culmen, 15.49-16.51 

 (16.00); tarsus, 29.21-31.24 (30.23); middle toe, 12.70-15.24 (13.97); 

 hind claw, 12.70-15.24 (13.97).' 



Highlands (alpine region) of southern portion of Mexican plateau, 

 in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa, Orizaba, Las Vigas, Cofre de Perote, 

 etc.), Pueblo (Zoquitlan, ]Mount Orizaba), Oaxaca (La Parada, Cerro 

 San Felipe, Mount Zampoaltepec, mountains near Ozolotepec, etc.), 

 and Guerrero (mountains near Chilpancingo). 



Pxpilo torquatus Du Bus, Bull. Ac. Roy. Brux., xiv, pt. ii, 1847, 105 (Mexico; 

 Brussels Mus.); Rev. Zool., 1848, 246; Esquis. Orn., 1851, pi. 36. 



'P.\_ipilo'\ torquatus Bos AP ARTE, Consp. Av., i, 18.50, 487. 



Kieneria torquata Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 356. 



Chamseospiza torquata Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 304 (La Parada, 

 Oaxaca); 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Bird?, 1862, 120 (Oaxa- 

 ca). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 552 (alpine region of 

 Vera Cruz; habits).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Ara., Aves, i, 1886, 

 399.— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 148 (Zoquitlan, 

 Puebla).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 730.— Chapman, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 41 (Las Vigas, Vera Cruz, alt. 8,000 ft.).— Cox, 

 Auk, xii, 1895, 357 (Mount Orizaba). 



[Chanmospiza] torquata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Xeotr., 1873, 33. 



[Emberizoklefi'] torquata Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 91, no. 7333. 



Buarremon ocai Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii. May, 1865, 126 

 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz; coll. G. N. Lawrence; see Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 315). 



' Seven specimens. '■^Five specimens. 



