146 CATALOGUE OF MEXICAN ANIMALS. 



Among the characters ascribed by Mr. Lawreuce (Proc. Acad. Na.t. 

 Sci., Phil., Dec, 18C8, p. 362), as distiuguishiug this species from A. 

 ruficauda, Bouap., several do not hold good, among which may be men- 

 tioned the color of the tail, flanks, and lesser wing-coverts, which is 

 essentially the same in the two species. The real diagnostic characters 

 consist in the much more deeply black strij^es of the head in the pres- 

 ent species, its smaller bill, and absence of the very distinct gray cloud- 

 ing which forms an uninterrupted broad belt across the jugulum in R. 

 ruficauda. — E. R.] 



77. Pipilo submaculatus Eidgway, sp. uov. 



PipUo submaculatus, Eidgway, Auk, III, July, 18'S6, 332. 

 Vulg. — Chohuis. 



Hah. — State of Puebla. Teziutlan, ISo. 2S5a. 9 , type, November. 



[Sp. char. — Resembling P. maculatus, Swains., but smaller, the back 

 without white streaks, the white terminal spots of middle and greater 

 wing-coverts and lateral rectrices much reduced in size, and the rufous 

 of the sides of the breast marked with sagittate spots of black. 



Adult $ (Xo. 28oa, collection of the Comision Geogr^fico Explora- 

 dora de Mexico, Teziutlan, State of Puebla, November, 1884) : Head, 

 neck, and jugulum brownish black, decidedly lighter on the crown, oc- 

 ciput, and cervix, which incline to dark grayish brown, very indis- 

 tinctly streaked with darker 5 sides of the jugulum indistinctly spotted 

 or tinted with brown. Back and scapulars umber brown, tinged with 

 rusty, the feathers with indistinct though broad medial streaks of 

 dusky, some of the exterior scapulars with an indistinct whitish lat- 

 eral streak. Rest of upper parts dull grayish brown, somewhat tinged 

 with olive, especially on wings, the wing-coverts, remiges, and rectrices 

 darker centrally ; middle and greater wing coverts with small terminal 

 roundish spots of white, those on tlie greater coverts confined to the 

 terminal portion of the outer web ; tw o innermost tertials with a very 

 indistinct edging of dull whitish. Tail dusky grayish brown, the edges 

 of the feathers haidly perceptibly different : outer feather with an ellip- 

 tical spot of dull white, about .85 of an inch long, and for about the ter- 

 minal half occui>ying the full breadth of the web, but the terminal 

 border of the web, next the shaft, dusky, ver^^ sharplj" and abruptly 

 defined against the whitish ; terminal i>ortion of outer web of same 

 feather edged with white; second rectrix with a large, somewhat ovate 

 subterminal spot of dull white, the terminal margin being quite broadly, 

 and very abruptly, dusky ; outer web with a much smaller subterminal 

 white spot; third rectrix without white on either web. Middle of breast 

 and abdomen white ; sides of breast, sides, flanks, crissum, and lower 

 tail-coverts, rusty rufous, paler posteriorly and anteriorly (especially 

 on sides of breast), marked with sagittate spots of black. Maxilla, 

 brownish black; mandible, paler; feet, light horn-brown. Wing, 3.30; 

 tail, 3.70; culmen, .60; tarsus, 1.15; middle toe, .75. 



