430 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



PIPILO FUSCUS FUSCUS Swainson. 

 BROWN TOWHEE. 



Adults {sexes alike). — A))<)ve dark hair brown oi" o-rayish s(>pia l)rowii, 

 the pileimi darker and browner, sometimes slightly tinged with chest- 

 nut; middle and greater wing-eoveits and upper tail-eoverrs usually 

 narrowl}' and indistinctly tipped w'th pnler; ' remiges and rectrices 

 with the general color darker, cleai'er, and less brown than other por- 

 tions; sides of head mainly coloi-ed like back, etc., Init with loral and 

 .suborl)ital regions mottled with pale butty or dull whitish, and auricu- 

 lar region tinely streaked with the same; malar region, chin, and 

 throat pinkish buft' (deeper in winter, paler in sunuiier plumage), the 

 first tlecked with dusky, the nearly (sometimes quite) immaculate gular 

 area surrounded laterally and posteriorly by rather large triangular 

 spots or streaks of black; median portion of l)reast and abdomen 

 white; sides of breast, sides, and Hanks hair brown (paler than back); 

 anal and femoral regions and under tail-coverts cinnamon or cinnamon- 

 tawny; maxilla dusky, mandible pale l)rownisli: iris brown; tarsi light 

 brown, toes darker. 



A(h/lf /iufh.—L,ength (skins). iS-t. 15-197. 10 (190.75); wing. 87.12- 

 9H.77 (9lM()); tail, 82.80-98.55 (92.96); exposed culmen, 13.72-15.49 

 (11.4S); tarsus, 23.37-26.92 (24.89); middle toe. 16.76-18.80 (17.53).' 



Adult fe//iale.—l^ength (skins), 180.09-190.75 (184.91); wing, 82.04- 

 89.15 (85.34); tail, 84.33-93.22 (87.88); exposed culmen, 14.22-15.24 

 (14.48); tarsus, 22.86-2().16 (24.89); middle toe, 17.02-17.78 (17.27).' 



Pacitic slope of Sierra ^ladre. southwestern Mexico, fi'om State of 

 Mexico (Temascaltepec. Tlalpam, Ajusco, Amecameca, etc.) through 

 States of Michoacan (Patzcuaro) and Jalisco (north to Guadalajara) 

 and Territory of Tepic. 



FipUufuxra SwAiNsox, Philos. Mag., new ser., i, 1827, 434 (Temascalte])ec, Mexico; 

 coll. W. Swainson). 



Pipillo fnsca Swainson, Anini. in Menag., i, 1838, 347 (Mexico) . 



P. [ipilo'] /»«•«»■ Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 18-±4, 2l0. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 

 487, part (Mexico).— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 440, part. 



Pipilo fuscus ScLATER and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1869, 361 (City of Mex- 

 ico). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N.Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 121, foot- 

 note (Temascaltepec; Guadalajara; Tepic). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 ix, 1886, 148, part (plains of Golima, Tepic, Gnadaiajara, Temascaltepec, and 

 Valley of Mexico). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 

 409, part (Temascaltepec; Gnadaiajara; valley of IMexico). — Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 752, part (near City of Mexico). 



^ In fresh plumage, especially in young birds wliich have just assumed the adult 

 plumage, these tips are quite distinct and more or less fulvescent, particularly on the 

 upper tail-coverts. 



- Eleven specimens. 



^ Six specimens. 



