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Adult male. Back and scapulars almost equally barred black and 

 buffy white ; rump and upper tail-coverts white, or the latter 

 slightly buffy, narrowly barred with black ; wings and their coverts 

 black, the latter, as well as the innermost secondaries, barred with 

 white, the remaining secondaries spotted on both webs, the pri- 

 maries having large spots and patches of white on the basal half, 

 and partially margined with white on the outer webs ; tips of the 

 quills white, and the shafts black ; tail black, the central pair of 

 feathers having the inner web white barred with black, the outer 

 web with a longitudinal stripe of white, the two outer large 

 feathers barred with white on the apical half or more ; shafts 

 black ; nasal plumes, head and neck, and the under surface of the 

 body drab, darker on the back of the head and hind neck, and with 

 a just perceptible tinge of yellow on the nape, with a quadrate 

 patch of crimson on the crown, and the abdomen golden yellow ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts buffy white, with bars and sagittate 

 markings of black ; under wing-coverts white, barred with black ; 

 axillaries pale smoky drab. Total length 9 inches, culmen 1-5, 

 wing 5'2, tail 3-3, tarsus 0-9 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 

 0-68, outer posterior 0*7, inner anterior 0'6, inner posterior 

 0-35. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of the 

 red patch on the crown. Total length 8*5 inches, culmen 1-25, 

 wing 4*9, tail 3'2, tarsus 0-85. 



Immature. Resemble the adult of their respective sexes, but have 

 the head and neck paler in colour, the male having a few of the 

 feathers in the middle of the crown tipped with orange-red. 



Hah. South-eastern California and Lower California to Cape St. 

 Lucas ; Southern Arizona and Western Mexico, south to the State 

 of Aguas Calientes. 



a. 5 ad. sk. San Pedro, Arizona, Oct, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(He)ishaio). 

 b,c,d. J' ad. ; e, Tucson, Arizona, Dec, Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



f. $ ad. sk. {Hcnshciw). 



g. (S ad. ; h. c? Camp Lowel, Arizona, Aug., Salvin-Godman Coll. 



juv. sk. Sept. (Dr. Ilothrock). 



i, k. J ad. sk. Lowel, Arizona, April {E. W. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Nelson). 

 h m. S 2 ^^- sk. Gila Co., Arizona, Nov. [Heyi- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ghmc). 

 n, o. cJ 2 ad. sk. Yuma, Arizona, May {F. G. Frean Morcom, 



Stephens). Esq. [P.]. 



p. c? ad. sk. La Paz, Lower California, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



winter {Henshaio). 

 q, r. J 2 ad. sk. La I'az. Sc-later Coll. 



Sft.S'i ^^- sk. La Paz, March, Nov. [A. For- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



7-er) . 

 u, V. d ad.; w. San Jos6 del Cabo, Lower Call- Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 2 ad. sk. fornia, Nov. {M. Abott 



Frazar). 

 X. S imm. sk. Cape San Lucas, Lower Call- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



fornia (J. Xanttis). 



