428 BULLETIN 50, U^TITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



14.99-15.75 (15.24); depth of bill at base (two specimens), 10.16-10.41 

 (10.28); tarsus, 26.42-28.96 (27.43); middle toe, 17.53-19.56 (18.54).' 



Arid division of Lower Austral Province, in Arizona, southern 

 Nevada (bend of Colorado River), southwestern Utah (Washington. 

 St. George, Santa Clara Valley), northwestern New Mexico (valley of 

 Gila River), and southeastern California (valley of Colorado River). 



Pipilo aberti Baird, in Ptansbury's Exp. txreat Salt Lake, Zool., June, 1852, 325, 

 330 (New Mexico'^).— Cor Es, Check List, LS73, no. 207; 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 309.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler'.* Surv., 1873 (1874), 81 (near 

 FortCrarland, Colorado, breeding^), 121 (Gila R., Arizona) ; Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 xi, 1874, 45 (s. Utah); Annot. List Birds Utah, 1874, 6 (do.); Zool. Exp. AV. 

 100th Merid., 1875, 306 (habits, etc.) .—Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 128, pi. 31, fig. 7; iii, 1874, 517 (Tucson, Arizona; 

 descr. nest and eggs). — Stephens, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 93 (Gila 

 R., New Mexico). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 241. — Brewster, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 198 (Colorado, Gila, and San Pedro rivers, 

 Arizona; habits; descr. nest, eggs, and young). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 592.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 

 756. — Bendire, Auk, vii, 1890, 27 (habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Fisher, 

 N. Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 105 (bend of Colorado R., Nevada; lower Santa 

 Clara Valley, Utah, etc.). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 183. — 

 Mitchell, Auk, xv, 1898, 310 (San Miguel Co., New Mexico, up to 9,000 ft. ). 



P.l'qjilo'] aberti Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 398.— Ridgway, I\Ian. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 441. 



Pipilo abertii Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv.,ix, 1858,516; ed. 1860 ("Birds N. 

 Am." ), atlas, pi. 30; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 18 ( Fort 

 Yuma and Colorado R., California); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 395. — 

 Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 15 (Gila R., Arizona). — 

 Kennerly, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, 1859, 30, pi. 30 (Big Sandy R. 

 and Bill Williams R., Arizona). — Scl.\ter, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 119 ("New 

 Mexico," i. e., Arizona,). — Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, S4, 

 (Gila and Colorado valleys, Arizona); Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 324 (Colorado 

 Valley, etc.). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 244. — Yarrow and Henshaw, Rep. 

 Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1872 (1874), 15 (Washington and St. George, 

 Utah). 



"Pipilo" abertii Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 90 (valleys of Gila 

 and Colorado). 



IPipilo'] abertii Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 93, no. 7366. — Coues, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 1872, 153. 



Pipilo ahertis Baird, in Rep. Ives' Col. Exped., pt. iv, 1857-58, 6. 



Pipilo alberti Morcom and Stephens, Bull. Ridgway Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 50 

 (Fort Yuma, California; habits; notes). 



Kleneria abertii Bonaparte, Conipt. Rend., xl, 1855, 356. 



PIPILO RUTILUS (Lichtenstein). 

 SCLATERS TOWHEE. 



Adults {se.res alike). — Above uniform hair ])rown or broccoli brown, 

 slightly darker on pileum, some of the middle wing-coverts (occasion- 



' Seven specimens. 



^ Present whereal)outs of type unknown. 



^Doubtful; the evidence unsatisfactory. 



