81. PIPILO. 



741 



a. c? ad. sk. Mexico. 



b. S ad. sk. La Parada, Mexico. 



c. Ad. sk. Oaxaca, Mexico {A. Boucard). 



d. <3 ad. sk. Totontepec, South Mexico, Jan. 



1859 (A. Boucard). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 A. Salle" [C.]. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



81. PIPILO. 



Pipilo, Vieillot, Analyse, p. 32 (1816) . . 



Type. 

 P. erytbrophtkalnms. 



Head of Pipilo erythrophthalmuz 



Range. The greater part of North America and Central America 

 from Mexico to Guatemala. 



Key to the Species * 



With the head and throat black or black- 

 ish ; white or yellowish- white markings 

 on the outer tail-feathers. 

 a'. With no yellow on the imder wing- 

 coverts or axillaries. 

 a". With no white markings on the wing- 

 coverts or scapulars. 

 a'". Larger; with larger white markings 

 on quills and tail-feathers ; iris of 

 adult male bright carmine-red. 

 Length 7-50-8-55, wing 3-30-3-75, 

 tail 3-55-4-10 ; white space on 

 outer tail-feathers 1-30-160 long 

 b'". Smaller ; with smaller white mark- 

 ings on quills and tail-feathers ; 

 iris of adult male usually yellowish 

 or whitish. Length 7-0-8-35, wing 

 2-95-3-20, tail 3-55-3-9; white 

 space on outer tail-feathers only 



066-0-75 long alleni, 



b". With large white markings on the 

 scapulars and wing-coverts. 



erytliropkthalmus, p. 744. 



p. 746. 



* Many of the characters in this ' Key ' are copied from Mr. Kidgway's 

 ' Manual,' just published. Some of the forms differentiated by him are so 

 meagrely represented in the Museum Collection that I have been unable to 

 study their claims to distinction ; and I have therefore followed him. As, how- 

 ever, most American naturalists admit that the different races of Pipilo macu- 

 latus merge into each other, it is questionable whether they should not all 

 be united under a single heading. 



