732 



FRIT> T GILLID.£:. 



Pipilo rubricatus, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 44 (1854). 



Melozone rubricata, Cab. J. f. O. 1866, p. 234. 



Pyrgisorna xantusi, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 480 (1866, 



ex Baird MSS.). 

 Pyrgisoma rubricatum, Sol. fy Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 326 ; iid. Exot. 



Orn. p. 127, pi. 64. fig. 1 (1868) ; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 33 



(1873) ; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. ii. p. 278 (1874) ; Salvin $ Godman, 



Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 402 (1886). 

 Embernagra rubricata, Gray, Sand -I. B. ii. p. 92, no. 7353 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, inclining slightly to 

 olive-brown ; lesser wing-coverts dull ashy grey ; median and 

 greater coverts dusky, edged with olive-brown, the former series 

 paler on the tips ; bastard-wing blackish, edged externally with 

 white ; primary-coverts and quills dusky brown, externally edged 

 with ashy, the secondaries browner on the outer web ; upper tail- 

 coverts like the back ; tail-feathers dusky brown, washed with ashy 

 on the margins ; forehead and sinciput brown, the hinder crown 

 and nape bright chestnut or bay, extending down behind the ear- 

 coverts and widening again on the hinder cheeks ; lores blackish, sur- 

 mounted by a white spot ; a tiny whitish spot in the middle of the 

 forehead ; eyelid white ; ear-coverts brown ; the feathers below the eye 

 blackish, extending on to the fore part of the ear-coverts ; cheeks, 

 throat, and under surface of body white, with a narrow lino of black 

 spots on the malar line ; on the fore neck a spot of black ; sides of 

 body and flanks brown ; thighs white, dark ashy posteriorly ; under 

 tail-coverts tawny ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the 

 latter with dusky bases ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner 

 edge. Total length 7 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 3 - 2, tail 2*85, 

 tarsus 0"85. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but a little more dingy in 

 colour ; the black spots on the malar line absent. Total length 6- 6 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3, tail 2-8, tarsus 0-9. 



Young. Duller olive-brown than the adults ; the white of the 

 underparts sullied by dusky tips to the feathers; centre of the 

 abdomen washed with olive-yellow. 



Hah. Mexico. 



a. Ad. st. Mexico. Purchased. 



b. Ad.sk. Mazatlan (J. Xanthus ; Sin. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



no ; 23869). (A type of P.xanthusi.) 



c. <$ ad. sk. Presidio, May 1 {A. Forrer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Presidio, Dec. 31 {A. F.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. d ad. sk. Putla, May 1, 1871 (A. Bou- Sclater Coll. 



card). 



f. 2 a d. sk. Atlisco (A. Boucard). Sclater Coll. 



g. $ ad. sk. Atlisco (A. Boucard). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Pyrgisoma kieneri. 



Pyrgisoma kieneri, Bp. Consp. i. p. 486 (1850) ; Scl. 8? Salv. P. Z. S. 

 1868, p. 325 ; iid. Exot. Orn. p. 130, pi. 65. fig. 2 (1868) ; iid. 

 Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 33 (1873) ; Salvin $• Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Amer., Aves, i. p. 401 (1886). 



