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grayish l)rown (hair lirowu or ))roccoli brown instead of sooty bhick 

 or dark sooty brown), and general color of upper parts, except back, 

 decidedly lighter and grayer; young also much paler than correspond- 

 ing stage of P. III. iiioculatus, with streaks on chest, etc., much nar- 

 rower, and ground color of under parts less buff}". 



Adult male.— ljQn<yth. (skins), 175.26-211.8-1: (195.33); wing, 8-l:.58- 

 91.19 (87.63); tail, 90.93-104.11: (97.28); exposed culmen, 11.94-13.97 

 (12.95); tarsus, 25.40-28.19 (26.92); middle toe, 17.78-20.32 (19.30); 

 hind claw, 8.89-12.70 (10.92); white on lateral tail-feathers, 29.21-41.91 

 (35.31).^ 



Adtdt female. —Length, (skins), 182.63-210.82(193.55); wing, 78.74- 

 90.93 (83.82); tail, 86.36-104.14 (92.46); exposed culmen, 12.19-13.97 

 (12.70); tarsus, 25.40-27.94 (26.67); middle toe, 17.78-20.32 (18.54); 

 hind claw, 9.65-12.19 (10.67); white or lateral tail-feathers, 27.94-36.07 

 (31.75).^ 



Great Plains and eastern foothills of Rocky Mountains, breeding 

 from south-central Montana (and Wj'oming?) and western North 

 Dakota north to Fort Carleton and Forks of the Saskatchewan; in 

 winter south to Texas and eastern New Mexico, west to Utah (Bluff' 

 Cit}", North Creek, Provo, Toquerville, etc.) and eastern Washington 

 (Okanogan County?), and eastward across the Great Plains to Indian 

 Territory, eastern Kansas, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota, 

 casuallj" to Iowa (Dubuque), and even to Wisconsin (Milwaukee). 



Pijrglta {Pipilo) arctica Swaixsox, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1881, 2H0 (Plains of the 

 Saskatchewan ) . 



Pipilo arctica Swaixson, Fauna Bor.-Ani., ii, 1831, ]ils. 51,52. — Woodholse, Rep. 

 Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuiii and Col. R., 1853, 81, part (Indian Territory). 



Pipilo arcticus Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 589; 2d ed., i, 1840, 

 610. — Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 35. — Bell, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 V, 1852, 7.— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1852, 514; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 393.— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 119, part (Bijoux 

 Hills, Nebraska) . — Blakistox, Ibis, 1862, 7 (Forks of Saskatchewan, May 

 27); 1863, 80 (Fort Carleton, Brit. Am.).— Hayden, Trans. Am. Philos. 

 Soc, xii, 1863, 168 (eastward range, etc.) .— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 492 (Ban- 

 dera Hills, Texas, Nov.; San Antonio, winter). — Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., 

 viii, 1876, 110 (near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Illinois, opp. Dubuque, Iowa, 

 accidental).— HoLDEX, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1872, 202 (Wyoming) .—Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 31, figs. 5, 6. 



P-lipilo] arcticus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 487. 



[Pipilo erythrophthalmus'] var. arcticus Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1S72, 

 178, part (western edge of Great Plains, Colorado). 



Pipilo erythrophthalmus . . . var. arcticus Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 

 1873, 183 (Colorado). 



[Pipilo maculatus.l Var. arcticus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, Oct., 1872, 152. 



Pipilo maculatus . . . var. arcticus Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 205a. 



Pipilo maculatus . . . Var. arcticus Sxow, Birds Kansas, 3d ed., 1875, 7 (w. 

 Kansas, migr. ). 



' Sixteen specimens. ^ Thirteen specimens. 



