74. PEU(LEA. 715 



c, d. Ad. sk. Orizaba (Botteri). Sclater Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Mexico. Sclater Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



g. <S ad. sk. Catalina Mill, Arizona, Oct. 1, Hon. G. B. Sennett 



1883 ( W. E. D. Scott). [P.]. 



Subsp. y. Peucaea notosticta. 



Peucaea notosticta, Scl. §• Sale. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 322 ; iid. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 32 (1873) ; Salvin S[ Godman, Biol. Centr .-Amer ., Ares, 



i. p. 393, tab. '28. fig. 1 (1886). 

 Ammodromus notosticta, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 96, no. 7431 



(1870). 



Adult male. Similar to P. boucardi, but larger, with the bill 

 black ; upper surface of body browner, and not so grey, and broadly 

 streaked with black, the wing-coverts also broadly streaked with 

 black. Total length 6-6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2 - 7, tail 2'8, 

 tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. Mexico. 



a. Ad. sk. South Mexico {A. Boucard). Sahin-Godrnan Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Oaxaca (A. Boucard). Sclater Coll. 



4. Peucaea carpalis. 



Peucaea carpalis, Cozies, Amer. Nat. vii. p. 322 (1873) ; Baird, 

 Brewer, $ Ridc/w. Hist. N. Amer. B. iii. App. p. 515 (1874) ; 

 Hensh. Rep. Expl. 100th Merid. p. 291 (1875); Ridgw. Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mas. iii. p. 180 (1881) ; Coiies, Check-list N Amer. B. 

 p. 55 (1882) ; id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 375 (1884) ; 

 A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 278 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above light ashy brown, with a 

 slight rufous tinge, the mantle and back distinctly streaked with 

 blackish-brown centres to the feathers ; lower back and rump 

 uniform ashy brown ; scapulars like the back, but a little more 

 chestnut ; lesser wing-coverts uniform bright chestnut ; median 

 and greater coverts black, margined with ashy white, with a slight 

 rufous shade on the latter ; bastard-wing blackish, edged with 

 white : primary-coverts blackish, fringed with ashy brown ; quills 

 blackish, edged with brown, hoary white on the primaries, the 

 secondaries rufous-brown on the outer web ; upper tail-coverts 

 ashy brown, with dusky centres ; tail-feathers brown, edged with 

 ashy brown, the two outer ones white on the outer web and round 

 the tip, the white increasing on the outer feather to a considerable 

 extent ; crown of head light chestnut, streaked with ashy margins 

 to the feathers ; lores dull white, extending into a broad eyebrow of 

 pale ashy grey : feathers round eye dull white, as well as a con- 

 spicuous eyelid ; ear-coverts ashy grey, the cheeks a little whiter, 

 with a distinct line of blackish along the \ipper and lower margins ; 

 throat and under surface of body white, shaded with pale ashy 

 grey on the lower throat and fore neck ; sides of body and flanks 

 pale brown ; thighs ashy; under tail-coverts pale ochreous buff; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white, with ashy bases ; quills below 



