410 bullp:tin 50, united states national museum. 



Pipillo )nac)-0)i!/x Swaixson, Anim. in ]\Ienag., 183S, 347, ])art. 



F.[ipil(i'] macronyx Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 360. — Bonapartk, Consp. Av., i, 



1850, 487.— RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am Birds, 1887, 438. 

 [Pipilo'] macronyx Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 92, no. 7360. — Sclater and Salvin, 



Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 33. 

 Pipilo complexus Ridgway, Auk, iii, July, 1886, 332 (Tezuitlan, Puebla; coll. 



Com. Geog. Expl. Mexico); Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mns., iii, 1886, 147 (do.). 

 P.[^ipUo'] complexus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 439. 



PIPILO MACRONYX VIRESCENS ( Hartlaub). 

 HARTLAUBS TOWHEE. 



Similar to P. tn. macronyx but back and scapulars without 3'ellovrish 

 or 3-ellowish white streaks (the dusky ones also sometimes absent, the 

 color being- then luiiform olive-g'reen); wing-coverts much less distinctly 

 (sometimes not at all) tipped with yellowish or yellowish white; outer- 

 most rectrices with yellowish or whitish terminal spots, if present, much 

 less sharply defined (obsolete in typical examples), and color and sides 

 and flanks usually much duller cinnamon-rufous. 



Addt male.—'LQngih (skins), 200.15-214.12 (209.30); wing, 86.36- 

 95.25 (91.69); tail, 98.5.5-109.22(103.6.3); exposed culmen, 13.97-15,75 

 (14.99); tarsus, 29.97-33.78 (31.50); middle toe, 20.32-23.37 (21.34); 

 hind claw, 12.19-13.46 (12.70).^ 



Mountains along southern bordei' of Mexican plateau, from Volcan 

 de Toluca (north slope), Salazar, etc., in State of Mexico to State of 

 Oaxaca. 



Pipilo macronyx Swainson, Philos. ^lag., new ser., i, 1827, 434, part (specimen 



from Tcmascaltepec). — Salvix andGoDMAX, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 



406, part (Oaxaca). 

 Pipillo macronyx Swainson, Anim. in ]\Ienag., 1838, 347, part. 

 Pipilo virescens Hartlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., xi, May, 1863, 228 (Mexico; Berlin 



Mus. ). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 752 (s. Mexico; excl. syn. 



Pipilo complexiuf Ridgway). 

 [Pipilo] virescens Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 92, no. 7361. 

 Pipilo chlorosoma Baird, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's Hist. N, Am. Birds, ii, 



1874, 105, footnote (Oaxaca; U. S. Nat. Mus. ). 

 P. [ipilo'] chlorosoma Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 438. 



PIPILO MACULATUS MACULATUS Swainson. 

 MEXICAN SPOTTED TOWHEE. 



Adult male. — Head, neck, and chest black, the throat sometimes 

 with more or less of a white spot, and, very rarelv, the occiput streaked 

 with rufous; upper parts grayish olive-brown or brownish olive, the 

 back and scapulars streaked with black and white (the latter on the 

 exterior edges of the feathers, the former interposed between the white 



^ Seven specimens. (No females seen.) 



