1886.] PEOCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 143 



67. Amphispiza ferrariperezi, Eidgway, sp. uuv. 



AmpMspizaferrarijyere::!, Ridgway, Auk, iii, July, 188;?, 332. 



Vulg. — Cerquero de collar. 



Hab. — State of Puebla. Chietla, No. 44 $ , type, 44a 9 , December. 



[Sp. char. — Similar to A. quinquesiriata (ScL*),biit rump brown in- 

 stead of slate-gray, tlie lesser wing coverts cinnamon-rufous instead of 

 slate-color, throat with a broad patch, instead of stripe, of white, black 

 of the breast forming a broad collar, widest laterally, and the sides light 

 drab instead of plumbeous. 



Adult $ (type, No. 44, collection of Comision Geografica Exploradora 

 de Mexico, Chietla, Puebla, December, 1884) : Head dark brownish slate, 

 deepening into black on forehead, lores, and suborbital region, the occi- 

 put and cervix marked with broad but indistinct streaks of dark rusty. 

 A supraloral spot, malar stripe, broad patch covering chin and throat, 

 with entire abdomen and lower part of breast, pure white. White of 

 throat bordered on each side by a submalar stripe of black, connecting 

 with a broad black collar across the jugulura and upper breast, this 

 collar about .50 of an inch wide in the middle portion, and .75 of an 

 inch broad at its lateral extremities. Back, scapulars, and lesser wing- 

 coverts, bright cinnamon-rufous, the first with a few indistinct black 

 streaks in the middle portion, and all the dorsal feathers rather indis- 

 tinctly bordered with light grayish brown ; middle wing-coverts black, 

 edged with fulvous and tipped with white, the latter forming a narrow 

 but distinct band ; greater coverts similar, but with broader fulvous 

 edgings and much less distinct whitish tips; tertials similar to the 

 greater coverts, but without any white at tips ; primaries slate-dusky, 

 edged for terminal half with pale gray. Kump and upper tail coverts 

 light grayish brown, the more posterior feathers with paler borders. 

 Tail dusky, the feathers with paler edges. Sides and flanks light gray- 

 ish brown ; anal region and lower tail-coverts similar but paler. Maxilla, 

 black; mandible, whitish; iris, blackish ; feet, horn brown. Wing, 2.70; 

 tail, 3.30; the lateral feathers .55 shorter; culmen, .50, depth of bill at 

 base, .30 ; tarsus, .85, middle toe, .60. 



Adult 9 (No. 44a, collection of the Comision Geografica Exploradora 

 de Mexico, Chietla, Puebla, December, 1884) : Exactly like the male, as 

 described above, except that the back is less rufescent and more dis- 

 tinctly streaked, and the rump more rufescent. Wing, 2.50; tail, 3.00. 



It affords me much j)leasure to dedicate this elegant species to Pro- 

 fessor Fernando Ferrari Perez, naturalist of the Mexican Geographical 

 Exploring Commission, and president of the State's University of Pu- 

 ebla de Zaragoza. — E. R.] 



68. Amphispiza mystacalis (Hartl.). 



Zonotrichia mijstacalis, Hartl., Rev. Zool., 1852, p. 3. 



Vulg. — Cerquero de patilla negra. 



^a&.— State of Puebla. Chietla, No. 43 $ , 43« $ , December. 



*Zonotricha quinquesiriata, Sch. & Salv., P. Z. S., May 28, 1868, p. 323. (C/. 

 RiDGW., Ibis, Oct., 1883, p, 400.) 



