434 BULLETIN 50. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



trast A\ ith tlio butt' of ii])p(M' ])()i'ti<)ii. and chest uniform gray or brown- 

 ish gray. 



Adiilt m«/^.— Length (skins), 188.13-205.23 (192.53): wing, 86.11- 

 94.74(89.92); tail, 93.47-103.12(97.03); exposed eulmen, 13.72-15.75 

 (14.99); tarsus. 23.88-27.94 (26.16); middle toe, 16.76-19.30 (18.29).' 



Adult female.— \^^\\^i\i (skins), 177.80-193.29 (184.66); wing, 78.99- 

 95.00 (85.85); tail, 81.79-104.90 (93.98); exposed eulmen, 14.48-16.26 

 (14.99); tarsus, 22.86-26.42 (25.15); middle toe. 16.26-18.29 (17.53).- 



Cape St. Lucas district. Lower California. 



Pipno albigula Baird, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sei. Phila., Nov., 1859, 301, .304 (Cape St. 

 Lucas, Lower California; U. S. Nat. Mas.). — Elliot, Illust. New and 

 Unfig. N. Am. Birds, pt. i, 1869, pi. 15.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 248.— 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 31, fig. 11.— 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 755. 



[Pipilo'] albigula Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 92, no. 7362. 



Pipilo albigularis Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 120. 



\_Pipilo fuscus.] Var. albigula Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 152. 



Pipilo fu,^cus . . . var. albigula Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 206a. 



Pipilo fuscus, var. albigula Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 

 1874, 127. 



Pipilo fuscus albigula Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 181, 218, 

 228; v, 1883, 540 (La Paz, Lower California; crit.); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 240a.— Coues, Check List, 2ded., 1882, no. 307.— Townsend, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 137 (La Paz). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 591a. 



P.[ipilo'] /.[uscus'] albigula Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 397. 



P.^ipilol fuscus albigula Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 440. 



PIPILO CRISSALIS CRISSALIS (Vigors). 

 CALIFORNIA TOWHEE. 



Similar to P. fuscus inesoleucus Init deeidedh" larger and coloration 

 much darker and browner; back, etc.. drab-brown (margins of feath- 

 ers slightly more grayish), the pileum more rufescent (approaching 

 mars brown or prouts brown); gular area vinaceous-cinnamon or 

 cinnamon-buff, abdomen pale dull l)uffy, and under tail-coverts, etc., 

 bright russet or cinnamon. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 212.09-241.30 (227.58); wing, 95.25- 

 103.63 (98.81); tail, 107.19-115.57 (109.98); exposed eulmen, 14.22- 

 16.51 (15.75); tarsus, 26.67-28.45 (27.69); middle toe, 19.30-21.34 

 (20.07).' 



Adult female.— Ij^ngth (skins), 209.. 30-218.44 (213.87); wing, 90.68- 

 98.55 (95.76); tail, 105.16-111.25 (107.70); exposed eulmen, 14.22- 

 16.00 (14.99); tarsus, 26.42-27.94 (27.18): middle toe, 19.05-20.32 

 (19.56).* 



California, west of Sierra Nevada (in valleys and foot-hills), north 



' Ten specimens. '' Eight specimens. 



^ Seven specimens. ■* Four specimens. 



