81. pipilo. 753 



Adult male. General colour above brown, the upper tail-coverts 

 fringed with ashy whitish; wings like the back, the primaries 

 edged with paler and more ashy brown ; tail-feathers dark brown ; 

 crown of head pale rufous chocolate, slightly contrasting with the 

 back ; lores and feathers round the eye whitish : ear-coverts dull 

 ashy brown, narrowly streaked with white shaft-lines ; cheeks and 

 throat pale ochreous buff, with a necklace of black spots extending 

 from the malar line across the lower throat; fore neck and breast 

 ashy brown, whiter on the centre of the breast and inclining to pale 

 tawny buff on the abdomen ; sides of body ashy brown tinged with 

 tawny on the lower flanks and thighs ; vent and under tail-coverts 

 conspicuously tawny buff; under wing-coverts whitish, washed with 

 very pale tawny buff, with dusky bases ; axillaries ashy brown, 

 fringed with whitish ; quills dusky below, ashy along the edge of 

 the inner web. Total length 7*8 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-85, 

 tail 3 - 65, tarsus 1*1. 

 Hab. Mexico. 



a. Ad. sk. Mexico. J. Gould, Esq. 



b. Ad. sk. Mexico (Be Saussurc). Sclater Coll. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Puebla, Mexico. A. Boucard [0.1. 



d. Ad. sk. Puebla, Mexico, March (A. Sclater Coll. 



Boucard). 

 c.Ad.sk. Near the City of Mexico. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. N. Mexico. Sclater Coll. 



Subsp. a. Pipilo crissalis. 



Fringilla crissalis, Vigors, in Beechexjs Toy. ' Blossom,' p. 19 (1839). 

 Pipilo fuscus (nee Sic), Cass. III. B. Calif, p. 124, pi, 17 (1856) ; 



Everm. Auk, hi. p. 182 (1886). 

 Pipilo crissalis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 93, no. 7635 (1870). 

 Pipilo fuscus, var. crissalis, Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 153 (1*872) ; 



Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 277 (1874); Baird, Brewer, $ 



Ridgw. Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. p. 122, pi. 31. fig. 8 (1874) ; Belding, 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 420 (1879) ; Cooper, op. cit. p. 249 



(1880) ; Belding, op. cit. v. p. 528 (1883). 

 Pipilo fuscus crissalis, Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. hi. p. 181 (1881) ; 



Coues, Check-l. N. Amer. B. p. 61 (1882) ; id. Key N. Amer. B. 



2nd ed. p. 397 (1884) ; A. 0. U. Check-l. N. Amer. B. p. 285 (1886) ; 



Ridgw. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 441 (1887). 



Adult mede. Similar to P. fuscus, but larger ; the feathers round 

 the eye and lores pale tawny buff, the former minutely dotted with 

 white ; cheeks and throat deep tawny buff, with the same necklace 

 of black spots as in P. fuscus ; fore neck and breast entirely pale ashy, 

 inclining to isabelline on the abdomen; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries very pale tawny buff, with dusky bases. Total length 

 8-5 inches, culmen - 65, wing 3*58, tail 4*15, tarsus 1-1. 



Achdt female. Similar to the male, but a little paler rufous on 

 the throat and under tail-coverts. Total length 8 inches, wing 3*7, 

 tail 4'1, tarsus 1*1. 



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