81. pipilo. 747 



2. Pipilo maculatus. 



Pipilo maculatus, Sivains. Phil. Mag. new series, i. p. 434 (1827) ; 

 Jard. $ Selby, III. Orn. i. pis. 31, 32 (c. 1839) ; Gray, Gen, B. ii. 

 p. 360 (1844); Bp. Consp. i. p. 487 (1850); Scl. P. Z.S. 1858, 

 p. 304, 1859, p. 380 ; Sumichr. Mem. Bost. Soc. i. p. 552 (1869) ; 

 Scl. §• Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 361 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 92, 

 no. 7357 (1870) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 152 (1872) ; Scl. $ 

 Salv. No?nencl. Av. Neotr. p. 33 (1873); Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. 

 Mm. iv. p. 22 (1876) ; Salvin Sf Godman, Biol, Centr.-Amer., Aves, 

 i. p. 408 (1886) ; Ridgw. Auk, iii. p. 332 (1886) ; id. Man. N. 

 Amer. B. p. 436 (1887). 



Pipilo oregonus {nee Audub.), Salvin, Ibis, 1866, p. 193 ; Duges, La 

 Natur. i. p. 140 (1868). 



Pipilo maculatus, a. maculatus, Coues, B. N.- West, p. 175 (1874). 



Adult. General colour above black, tbe lower back and rump 

 ratber browner, the upper back and scapulars strongly mottled with 

 longitudinal streaks of white on the outer webs of the feathers ; 

 lesser wing-coverts black, tipped with small spots of white ; median 

 and greater coverts black, with large white spots at the end of the 

 outer webs, forming a double wing-bar ; bastard-wing black, with a 

 narrow white mark at the end of the outer web ; primary-coverts 

 and quills black, the primaries with a faint white edging near the 

 base, more distinct about the middle of the outer web, the inner 

 secondaries with a broad longitudinal white mark along the outer 

 web ; upper tail-coverts brownish black, fringed with rusty white 

 at the ends ; tail-feathers black, the four outer ones marked at the 

 end with a white spot, at first confined to the inner web, but 

 gradually extending in size towards the outermost, which is also 

 edged with white aloug the outer web ; crown of head, sides of 

 face, and entire throat, sides of neck, and fore neck black, some of 

 the feathers of the throat mottled with white bases ; breast and 

 abdomen white, with a slight tinge of tawny oji the latter ; sides of 

 body and flanks bright tawny rufous ; thighs black, edged with ashy 

 whitish ; under tail-coverts lighter tawny rufous ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white with dusky bases, the latter slightly 

 washed with fulvous ; quills below blackish, ashy along the inner 

 edge. Total length 7'7 inches, cuhnen - 6, wing 3-6, tail 3-8, 

 tarsus 1*15. 



Another specimen in the Salvin -Godman Collection, from Quezalte- 

 nango, is slightly washed with olive-greenish on the back, as is 

 also a specimen from Oaxaca in the same collection. 



Hub. Central America, from Mexico to Guatemala. 



a. Ad. sk. [Mexico]. 



b. Ad. sk. Mexico {Ehoes). Sclater Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Real del Monte (de Saussure). Sclater Coll. 



d. S ad. sk. Oaxaca (I'enochio). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 e,f. Ad. sk. Quezaltenango, Guatemala (0. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Salvin). 



