578 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



tinged with olive, on chest, sides, and flanks; axillars and under wing- 

 coverts dull yellowish white; length (skins), 102.62-117.09 (107.05); 

 wing, 19.78-56.13 (52.83); tail, 42.16-49.28 (15.72); exposed culmen, 

 8.64-9.14 (8.89); depth of bill at base (three specimens), 8.38; tarsus, 

 14.48-15.24 (14.99); middle toe, 10.92-12.45 (11.68).' 



Southwestern Mexico, in States of Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Presidio; 

 Rosario),Tepic (Santiago), Jalisco (Hacienda el Molino, Atemajao. etc.), 

 Colima (plains of Colima), Guanajuato, Morelos (Cuernavaca), and 

 Puebla (Huehuetlan, Atlixco. etc.). 



Sp.\_erm.ophila'] torqueola Boxaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 495 (Mexico). 



SpermophUa torqueola Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 105 (Mexico); Ibis, 1871, 

 6 (monogr. ). — Duges, La Naturaleza, i, 1868, 139 (Guanajuato). — Law- 

 rence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 276 (Mazatlan; plains of Colima; 

 Tepic). — Grayson, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 276, part (habits, song, 

 etc.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1885, 351, part (excl. 

 loc. Capulalpam and Tehuantepec). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 

 1888, 119, part (Silao; Mazatlan; Presidio, near Mazatlan). 



[SpermophUa'] torqueola Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 28. 



[Gyrinorhynclius] torqueolus Gray, Hand -list, ii, 1870, 105, no. 7586. 



[Sporophila'] torqueola Giebel, Thes. Orn., iii, 1871, 523. 



Sporophila torqueola Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,ix, 1886, 142 (Hue- 

 huetlan, Puebla).— JouY Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1894, 779 (Hacienda 

 el Molino, Jalisco). 



6'- lporo})kila'] torqueola Ridgwa\% 3Ian. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 450, part. 



Sporophila ochropyga Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., ix, Jan., 1861, 5 (Cuernavaca, 

 Morelos, s. w. Mexico; Berlin Mus.; ex Lichtensteiu, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 

 1854, 45, =nomen nudum!). 



SpermophUa atriceps "Baird MS." Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, 

 May, 1867, 479 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



\_Gyrmorhynch%is] atricepf< Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 106, no. 7587. 



\_Sporophila'\ atriceps Giebel, Thes. Orn., iii, 1877, 518. 



SPOROPHILA ALBITORQUIS (Sharpe). 

 WHITE-COLLARED SEEDEATER. 



"Similar to *S'. torqueola, but distinguished b}- a white collar round 

 the hind neck. Total length, 111.76; culmen, 8.89; wing, 57.15; tail, 

 tail, 46.99; tarsus, 15.24." 



State of Oaxaca (Capulalpam, Tehuantepec, etc.), southern Mexico. 



I have not seen this form, which if not a phase of plumage of 

 S. toi^queola ma}^ be a subspecies of that species. 



SpermophUa torqueola (not of Bonaparte) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 

 303 (Capulalpam, Oaxaca). — Grayson, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 276, 

 part (Tehuantepec, Oaxaca) . —Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 i, 1885, 351, part (Capulalpam).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 

 119, part (in synonymy). 



S-lporophUa] torqueola Ridgway, INIan. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 450, part (Tehuan- 

 tepec) . 



SpermophUa albUorquis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 120 (Capulal- 

 pam, Oaxaca; Brit. Mus.). 



*Ten specimens. 



