81. PIPILO. 



749 



Pipilo maculatus megalonyx, Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 181 

 (1881) ; Belding, op. cit. v. p. 549 (1883), vi. pp. 343, 344 (1883) ; 

 Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 397 (1884) ; Batchelder, Auk, 

 ii. p. 128 (1885) ; Scott, t. c. p. 355 ; Sensh. Auk, iii. p. 74 (1886) ; 

 Everm. t. c. p. 182 ; A. O. U. Check-l.N. Amer. B. p. 284 (1886) ; 

 Ridgw. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 437 (1887). 



Pipilo maculatus arcticus megalonyx, Drew, Auk, ii. p. 16 (1885). 



Hardly to be distinguished from P. arcticus (see Mr. Ridgway's 

 characters as quoted in the " Key," anted, p. 742). Total length 

 8 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 3 - 6, tail 4, tarsus 1 # 05. 



Young. Brown where the adult is black, the white markings 

 indicated by rusty brown or reddish white ; under surface of body 

 ochreous buff, streaked with black, the centre of the abdomen and 

 lower breast fulvescent, the flanks and under tail-coverts more 

 rufous. 



Hob. Rocky-Mountain region of the United States, west to the 

 Sierra Nevada and Southern California {A. 0. U. Check-list, I. c). 



a. Ad. sk. California (Grueber). 



b. Ad. sk. California (Schott). 



c. Ad. sk. California. 



d. Ad. sk. 

 c. Juv. sk. 



/. <5 ad. sk. 



g. 6 ad 



k. 



h. Ad. sk. 

 i. Juv. sk. 



k. cJ ad. sk. 



/. cf ad. sk. 



m. c? ad. sk. 



<5 ad. sk. 



California. 



California (L. Beldinr/ ; Sm. no. 



76590). 

 El Paso, California (C. E. Aiken). 



San Gordonio, California, May 



20, 1886 (F. Stephens). 

 California. 

 Tejon Mountains, Aug. 1875 (H. 



W. Henshaw; Sm.no. 71340). 

 Fort Tejon, California, Aug. 30, 



1857 (J. Xantus; Sm. no. 



26086). 

 Carson, Nevada, May 21, 1877 



(H. W. Henshaw ; Sm, no. 



77663). 

 Apache Agency, Arizona, July 



14, 1874 (H. W. Henshaw; 



Sm. no. 69671). 

 Apache, Arizona, Nov. 4, 1873 



(Dr. Neiuberry ; Sm. no. 



66984). 



Sclater Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Lord Walsingham 



[P.]. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



G. Frean Morcom, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



U.S. Nat. 

 [P.]. 



Museum 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



Subsp. y. Pipilo oregonus. 



Fringilla arctica (nee Sic), Audub. B. Amer. pi. 394 ; id. Orn. Biogr. 



v. p. 49 (1839). 

 Pipilo oregonus, Bell, Ann. Lye. N. Y. v. p. 6 (1852) ; Audub. Syn. 



p. 123 ; id. B. Amer. iii. p. 164, pi. 194 (1841) ; Baird, B. N. 



Amer. p. 513 (1858); Sol. Cat. Amer. B. p. 119 (1862); Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 92, no. 7355 (1879) ; Cooper, B. Calif, p. 242 (1870). 

 Pipilo maculatus, var. oregonus, Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 152 



(1872) ; Baird, Brewer, $ Ridgw. Hist. N. Amer.B. ii. 116, pi. 31. 



fig. 12 (1874) ; Coues, B. N.- West, p. 175 (1871). 



