440 BULLETIISr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



MELOZONE RUBRICATUM RUBRICATUM Cabanis. 

 LICHTENSTEIN'S GROUND SPARROW. 



Adiili {flexes alilu). — Forohoad de(^p hair brown or olive, this color 

 soim^timos extendinjjf over anterior portion (rarely over greater part) 

 of crown; rest of pileuni cinnamon-rufous varying- to chestnut-rufous 

 oi' tawny: rest of upper parts plain hair brown, olive, or grayi^^h olive- 

 brown; upper and anterior portion of lores, orl)ital ring (interrupted 

 ill front), part of malar region and most of under parts white; lower 

 and posterior portion of lores grayish, l)ecoming dusky next to eye; 

 auricuhirs olive, becoming dusky beneath eye; beneath and behind 

 auricular region cinnamon-rufous, chestnut-rufous, or tawny, confluent 

 with the same color on the occiput; sides of chest and breast grayish 

 brown, passing into a more bufly hue on flanks; under tail-coverts bufl'; 

 a dusky spot in center of chest; bill black; legs and feet brownish. 



Adult male. — Wing, TT.1>8; tail. 72.39; exposed culmen, 13.21; 

 depth of bill at base, 7.62; width of maxilla at base, 7.11; tarsus, 24.89; 

 middle toe, 16.00.' 



Advlf female.— l^^\\gi\\ (skins), 145.80-157.73 (149.10); wing, 70.10- 

 76.20 (73.15); tail. 61.47-75.1S (68.33); exposed culmen, 13.21-14.22 

 (13.72); depth of bill at base, 7.62-8.38 (7.87); width of mandible at 

 base, 5.59-5.84 (5.71); tarsus, 23.37-23.88 (23.62); middle toe, 15.24- 

 16.26 (15.75).- 



Southern portion of Mexican plateau, in States of Pue1)la (Acatlan, 

 etc.), Oaxaca (Cuicatlan, etc.), and Guerrero (Tlalixtaquilla, etc.). 



A.\tlapete8\ ruhricatvs Cabanis, ]\Ius. Hein., i, May, 1851, 140, footnote (Real 

 Arriba, Puebla, Mexico; Berlin Mns. ; ex Tanagra ruhrlcata Lichtenstein, 

 manuscript). 



Allapeteii ruhricatus Cabasis, Jonrn. fiirOrn., 1860, 413 (descr.). 



Pipilo rubricahis Lichtexsteix, Nom. Av. Mas. BeroL, 1854, 44. 



Melozone rubricala Cabanis, Journ. fiirOrn., 1866, 234. 



Pyrgisoma rubricatum Sclater aiid Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 326, 

 part (Atlixco, Puebla); Exotic Orn., i, 1868, 127, pi. 64, fig. 1 (Atlixco).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 4Q2, part (Real Arriba 

 and Atlixco, Puebla).— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. II. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 148 

 (Chietla and Acatlan, Puebla).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 

 731, part (Atlixco; Putla, Oaxaca ?). 



[Pyrgisoma] rubricatum Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 33, part. 



[Embernagra'] rubricata Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 92, no. 7353. 



' One specimen from Acatlan, Puebla. 



^Tm'o specimens, from Cuicatlan, Oaxaca, and Tlalixta(juilla, Guerrero. 



