59. KHYNCOPHiNES. 589 



59. RHYNCOPHANES. _, 



Type. 



Rhyncophanes, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 432 (1858) .... R. maccowni. 



Range. Interior of North America, from the Saskatchewan Plains 

 south to Texas and Mexico. Breeds from about the northern border 

 of Western Kansas northward (cf. A. 0. U. Check-list, ut infra). 



1. Rhyncophanes maccowni. 



Plectrophanes maccowni, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. v. p. 122 (1851) ; 

 Cass. III. B. Calif, p. 228, pi. 39 (1856) ; Bp. Rev. et May. de 

 Zool. 1857, p. 161 ; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 437 (1858) ; Dresser, 

 Lhis, 1865, p. 487 ; Allen, Bull. Mus. C. Z. iii. pp. 145, 177 ; Baird, 

 Breioer, # Ridyw. EM. N. Amer. B. i. p. 523, pi. 24. fig. 1 (1874) ; 

 Hensh. Rep. Zool. Krpl. 100th Merid. p. 252 (1875) ; Maynard, 

 B. Florida, p. 519 (1883). 



Eniberiza maccowni, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 116, no. 7732 (1870). 



Plectrophanes (Rhyncophanes) maccowni, Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 

 p. 135 (1872). 



Rhyncophanes maccowni, Sennett, Bull. U. 8. Geol. Sura. iv. p. 16 

 (1878) ; Coues, t. c. p. 583 ; Ridt/w. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, 

 p. 23 (1881) ; Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 51 (1882) ; id. Key 

 N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 359 (1884) ; Brown, Auk, i. p. 121 (1884) ; 

 Drew, Auk, ii. p. 16 (1885) ; A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. 

 p. 264 (1886). 



Adult mule. General colour above brown, the feathers of the 

 mantle and back centred with blackish brown ; rump more ashy 

 grey, as well as the upper tail-coverts, the latter broadly edged with 

 hoary whitish; lesser wing-coverts ashy grey with blackish bases; 

 median coverts bright chestnut, with concealed blackish bases ; 

 greater coverts brown, externally hoary grey, whitish on the 

 margins ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, 

 edged with ashy grey, hoary whitish on the margins of the second- 

 aries, the primaries white along the outer web ; centre tail-feathers 

 brown, with ashy margins, the remainder white, with a blackish- 

 brown bar at the end of all the feathers except the outermost, which 

 has only a brown spot at the end of the outer web ; crown of head 

 black ; the occiput and nape ashy, the feathers being tipped with 

 this colour and resembling the hind neck, which is ashy grey ; lores, 

 a broad eyebrow, as well as the feathers round eye, white, becoming 

 ashy grey on the ear-coverts ; cheeks black, forming a broad mousta- 

 chial streak ; throat white ; sides of neck white, washed with ashy ; 

 fore neck and chest black ; breast ashy white, becoming purer white 

 on the abdomen ; sides of body and flanks dark ashy grey, slightly 

 mottled with black centres to the feathers on the side of the breast ; 

 thighs dull ashy ; under tail-coverts white : under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white ; quills below ashy brown, white along the 

 inner web : " bill brown and white : feet dark brown ; iris brown " 

 (J. Cooper). Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3'6, tail 

 2-15, tarsus 0-75. 



