426 BULLETIN 50, unitp:d states national museum. 



(Marquette Co., Michifjan, May 16 and 20). — Kells, Trans. Canad. Inst., iii, 

 1892, 35 (Listowell Co., Perth, Ontario, breeding?). — Pearson, Trans. Canad. 

 Inst., iii, 1892, 42 (Rosedale, Ontario, breeding). — Atkinson, Trans. Canad. 

 Inst., iii, 1892, 47 (breeding near Toronto).— Kay, Trans. Canad. Inst., iii, 

 1892, 51 (Port Sydney and Muskoka, Ontario, summer resid. ). — McIlwraith, 

 Birds Ontario, 1892, 329 (summer resid.). — Singley, Rep. Geol. Surv. Tex., 

 1894, 372 (near Corpus Christi). — Howe, Auk, viii, 1896, 178 (Longwood, 

 Massachusetts, Dec. 25; Bedford, Massachusetts, Jan. 2; Portland, Con- 

 necticut, Jan. ) ; xiii, 1896, 260 (Longwood, Massachusetts, Dec. 25) ; xv, 1898, 

 189 (Roxbury, Massachusetts, Dec. 27). — Fletcher, Auk, xv, 1898, 190 

 (Rockaway Beach, Long Island, January 29). — Knight, Bull. Univ. Maine, 

 no. 3, 1897, 102 (Androscoggin, Cumberland, Oxford, Sagadahoc, and York 

 counties, summer). — Bagcj, Auk, xvii, 1900, 178 (Vienna, Oneida Co., New 

 York, 1 pair July). 



[Pipilol erythroplithdbnas Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850,487. — Gray, Hand-list, 

 ii, 1870, 92, no. 7354.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 151. 



P. ^ipilo] erythrophthalmus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 360. — Nelson, Bull. Essex 

 Inst., viii, 1876, 110 (n. e. Illinois, Mar. 25 to last Oct.). — Coues, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 396.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 436.— Kay, 

 Biol. Rev. Ontario, i, 1894, 67, in text (Muskoka, Ontario, breeding). 



P.{ipilo'] erythwpthalmus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1851, 139. 



[Pipilo erythrophthalinus.l a. erythrophthalmus Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 173 

 (synonymy). 



[Pipilo eryihrophthaliniis] var. erythrojilitluthnui^ Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 108. 



Pipilo ater Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 292. 



PIPILO ERYTHROPHTHALMUS ALLENI Coues. 

 FLORIDA TOWHEE, 



Similar to I\ t. eryilirophthalinuH but smaller, with much' less white 

 on wings and tail (that on lateral rectrix averaging 17. 53 instead of 39. 62 

 in male adult, 15,2-1: instead of 33.02 in female adult), and with the iris 

 brownish yellow or 3'ellowish white instead of carmine red. 



AduU ;«r/7r. —Length (skins), 177.80-208.28 (190.25); wing, 74.68- 

 83.31 (79.25); tail. si. 5.3-98.81 (88.90); exposed culmen, 13.72-15.24 

 (14.22); depth of bill at base (two specimens), 10.67; tarsus, 25.40-27.69 

 (26.67); middle toe, 17.78-19.81 (18.54); hind claw, 8.89-9.91 (9.65); 

 white on outer tail feathor, 15.24-25.40 (17.53).' 



Adult female.— \^^\\g\h. (skins), 185.42-191.52 (188.47); wing, 71.12- 

 78.23 (73.66); tail, 81.53-87.63 (85.60); exposed culmen, 13.72-14.73 

 (14.22); depth of bill at base. 10.67-11.18 (10.92); tarsus, 25.91-27.18 

 (26.42); middle toe, 18.29-19.56 (18.80); hind claw, 9.14-10.16 (9.65); 

 white on outer tail feather, 12.70-16.51 (15.24).' 



Florida (grading into /"'. ' . trythrophtJudmas in Georgia, lower South 

 Carolina, etc.). 



Pipilo erythrophthalmus (not Fringilla erythrophthalma Linnaeus) Taylor, Ibis, 

 1862, 128 (Florida) .—Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zo_>l., ii, 1871, 282, part (all 

 references to localities in southern Florida). 



^ Nine specimens. '' Three specimens. 



