370 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Arizona; south to Mazatlan — . A. phceniceus 



sonoriensis Eidgw. Sonoran Red-wing.* 



p. Smaller, with hirger bill, aud upper parts darker. Male: 



Length about 8.00-8.50, wing 4.50, tail 3.40-3.70 (3.55), 



culmen 1.00-1.05 (1.03), depth of bill at base .40-.42 



(.41), tarsus 1.10-1.20 (1.15). Female: Ground-color 



above mixed grayish brown and rusty (the latter 



chiefly on back and scapulars), the toj) of head 



streaked with black and divided by a very distinct 



lighter median stripe ; back and scapulars broadly 



streaked with black and bufty whitish ; length about 



6.50-7.00, wing 3.60-3.80 (3.67), tail 2.70-2.90 (2.81), 



culmen .75-.85 (.79), depth of bill at base .38-.40 (.39), 



tarsus .95-1.05 (.99). Hab. Bahamas and southern 



Florida (Miami, Key "West, etc.)... — . A. phceniceus 



bryanti Eidgw. Bahaman Eed-wing." 



d^. Adult males with the middle wing-coverts more or less extcnsivel}' 



black terminally, the basal portion buff or ochraceous (but 



usually concealed by lesser coverts) ; adult females with dusky 



largely prevailing on lower parts (often nearly uniform dusk}^), 



and with superciliary stripe not sharply defined (often very 



indistinct). 



Male: Length about 9.00-10.00, wing 4.90-5.65 (5.17), tail 

 3.50-4.05 (3.83), culmen .81-1.02 (.89), tlepth of bill at 

 base .40-.49 (.46), tarsus 1.20-1.30 (1.23). Female: Above 

 nearly uniform brownish dusky, the top of head, back, 

 and scapulars more or less distinctly streaked with paler, 

 and the wing-feathers with narrow paler (sometimes 

 whitish) edgings ; lower parts brownish dusky, more or 

 less distinctly streaked (never conspicuously) with dull 

 brownish gray, the chin and throat pale buify or pinkish, 

 the latter marked with triangular spots of dusky, in lon- 

 gitudinal series ; length about 7.50-8.50, wing 4.05-4.35 

 (4.21), tail 2.90-3.25 (3.04), culmen .75-.78 (.76), depth of 

 bill at base .38, tarsus 1.05-1.10 (1.07). Eggs 1.00 X -69. 

 Hah. Valleys of California and western Oregon, and south 

 into Mexico. 



499. A. gubernator (Wagl.). Bicolored Blackbird. 

 &. Adult female entirely uniform deep black, including lesser wing-coverts. 

 {Adult male exactly like that of A. phceniceus in color.) 



1 New subspecies ; twelve females and one male examined. 



2 New subspecies. The adult male is not appreciably different in plumage from either the common A. 

 phoemeetia or the Cuban A. assimiUs, but differs in proportions from both. The National Museum possesses, 

 besides Bahaman specimens, an adult male and a female from Miami, Florida (C. J. Maynard, collector), and 

 an adult female from Key West (" Albatross" collection). 



