448 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(12.95): depth of l.ill ut base, 6.8H-T.(')2 (7. 11); tar.su.s, 23.11-25.40 

 (23.88); luicldle toe. 14.73-16.51 (15.41>).' 



Aduit/e/nale.— Length (skins). 13*). 70-148. 50 (143.51); wing. 58.93- 

 62.23 (60.96); tail, 56.64-63.50 (59.94); exposed culmen, 11.94-13.21 

 (12.95); depth of bill at base, 6.35-7.3T (7.11): tarsus. 22.86-24.64 

 (23.37); middle toe, 14.73-15.75 (15.24).' 



Southern Texas (north to Fort Clark. Cor[)us Cliristi, San Patricio, 

 etc.): south through northeastern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas, 

 Nuevo Leon, and San Luis Potosi. (Specimens from southern Ta- 

 maulipas and Nuevo Leon and San Luis Potosi are not typical, but 

 vary toward A. r. ciuissirosfrlx.) 



Embermi(/r<( nitirir</(it(i Lawrence, Ann. Lvf. X. Y., v, May, 1851, 112, pi. 5, tig. 

 2 (Rio Grande, Texas; coll. G. N. Lawrence). — Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. 

 Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 330 (Rio Grande); Rep. Pacific R.R. Surv., ix, 1858, 487, 

 part (Ringgold Barracks, Texas; Nuevo Leon, 3Iexico); ed. 1860 ("Birds 

 N. Am."), atlas, pi. 55, fig. 2; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 

 1859, 16, pi. 17, fig. 2; Gat. X. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 373.— Butcher, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 150 (Laredo, Texas).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 

 209. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. X. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 47, pi. 28, 

 fig. 3.— Merrill, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 89 (Fort Brown, Texas; 

 breeding habits; descr. nest and eggs); Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., i, 1878, 128 

 (do.; song, habits, etc.). — Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., 

 iv, no. 1, 1878, 22 (Brownsville and Hidalgo, Texas); v, 1879, 394 (Lometa, 

 Texas; measurements, etc. ; descr. young). — Ridgway, Nom. X. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 236. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 

 586. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 411 (Xuevo 

 Leon). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. jNIus., xii, 1888, 760. — Chapman, Bull. Am. 

 :Mus. X. H., iii, 1891, 326 (Corpus Christi, Texas).— Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Xat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1892, 109 (Corpus Christi and San Patricio, breeding). — Singley, 

 Rep. Geol. Surv. Tex., 1894, 372 (Hidalgo).— Xehrlinc;, Our Xative Birds, 

 etc., ii, 1896, 169, pi. 32, fig. 3. 



[Emberizoides'] rnfirirgata Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 91, no. 7332. 



A-lrremonopsI rufiinrgatu Ridgway, Man. X. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 435. 



Arrcmonops rujivirgata American Ornithiilogists' Union Committee, Auk, xiv, 

 1897, 129. 



[Embernagra] rufirirgata Coces, Key X. Am. lUrds, 1872, 153. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Xom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 33, part. 



E^iabernagrci] rnfivirgata Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887,435. 



Entbemagra rufonrgata Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, iio. 311. 



E.\^)nbernagra'] rufovirgatn Coues, Key X. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 398. 



\_Embcrnagra riifiiurgata] a. rufii'irgaUi Rid(javay, Proc \J. S. Xat. Mus., i, Dec. 10, 

 1878, 248, 249 (synon.; crit.). 



ARREMONOPS RUFIVIRGATUS CRASSIROSTRIS Ridgway. 

 CORDOVA SPARROW. 



Similar to A. r. rujirlnjdtKs l)ut with the bill much stouter, wing and 

 tail decidedly shorter, and coloration darker; back, etc.. darker olive- 

 green, tianks deep buHy olive, and under tail-coverts deep bully. 



^ Seven specimens. - Six specimens. 



