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Pip'do ulleni Coues, Am. Nat., v, Aug:., 1871, 066, footnote (Dummitts (rrove, 



Indian R., Florida; Mus. Comp. Zool.?'). 

 [Pipilo eri/thro})ht]Kdiiius.'] Var. allenii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 152. 

 Pipilo erytltrophthalmus . . . var. alleni Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 204a. 

 Pipilo erytJtrophthalnms, var. alleni Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, Jan., 1874, 112.— Merriam, Am. Nat., viii, Feb., 1874, 87 (St. 



Johns and Ocklawaha rivers, etc., Florida). — (?)Bro\vx, Bull. Xntt. Oni. 



Club, iv, 1879, 9 (Coosada, Alabama, 1 spec. Mar. 28). 

 [_Pipilo erythrophthalmus] b. alleni Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 173 (synonymy). 

 Pipilo erytliroplttlialmus alleni Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 



181, 217; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 237a.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 



1882," no. 302. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 



587a. — Chapman, Auk, v, 1888, 274 (Gainesville, Florida; notes, etc.). — 



Scott, Auk, vi, 1889, 323 (Funta Rassa and Tarpon Springs, s. w. Florida; 



Key West, 1 spec, blown by gale). — Wayne, Auk, xii, 1895, 365 (Wacissa 



R., n. w. Florida, breeding). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 177. 

 P.lipilo] e.lryfhrophtJinlmus] albmi Coves, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 396. 

 P. [/ju?7o] erythrophthalmns alleni Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 436. 

 IPipilo erythrophtJtalmas.] Subsp. a. Pipilo alleni Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



xii, 1888, 746 (Clearwater, s. w. Florida). 

 Pipilo leucojris Maynard, Birds Florida, pt. v, July, 1878, 113, pi. 4 (Dummitts, 



e. Florida; coll. C. J. Maynard?) ; Birds E. N. Am. (revised ed.), 1881, 113, 



pi. 4. 



PIPILO ABERTI Baird. 

 ABERTS TOWHEE. 



Adxdts {sexes alike). — Above uniform rather light broccoli brown, 

 becoming rather darker and somewhat grayer on remiges and rec- 

 trices, the primaries edged with pale brownish gray; beneath pale 

 cinnamomeous wood brown, paler (dull grayish butfy) on breast, deeper 

 and tinged with vinaceous-cinnamon on throat and chest, the lower 

 aV)domen ochraceous-bufiy, the under tail -coverts still deeper, or 

 vinaceous-tawny; lores dusky, the chin and throat streaked with the 

 same (chin sometimes wholly dusky); bill pale grayish brown; tarsi 

 pale brownish, toes darker. 



Young. — Essentially like adults, but paler and duller (less pinkish) 

 in color beneath, with the breast indistincth" streaked with grayish or 

 dusky. 



Adult males.—l^Qugih. (skins), 208.79-232.16 (222.00); wing, 89.92- 

 96.77 (93.98); tail, 105.92-119.89 (113.28); exposed culmen, 14.99- 

 16.26 (16.00); depth of bill at base, 10.16-10.67 (10.1:1); tarsus, 27.9^ 

 29.21 (28.1:5); middle toe, 18.80-20.32 (19.56).' 



Adult fe malt. —haw^th (skins), 202. 44-220. 47 (211.33); wing, 

 85.34-91.95 (87.88); tail, 100.84-109.47 (105.66); exposed culmen, 



'Exact locality, etc., not mentioned, but the name based on specimens collected 

 at Dununitt's Grove by C. J. Maynard, and mentioned by J. A. Allen in Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 282. 



'•'Eigiit specimens. 



