754 FRINGILLID-ffi. 



Young. Eecalls the colours of the adult, but is everywhere paler 

 and more dingy, the lower parts being mottled with spots of ashy 

 brown on the throat, breast, and sides of body. 



Hah. California. 



a. Ad. sk. California (Br. Cooper). Sclater Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. California. Purchased. 



c. c? ad. sk. California (Bell). Sclater Coll. 



d. cJ ad. sk. Northern "California, June 22 U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



(C. H. Townsend; Sm. no. 

 91941). 



e. Ad. sk. Bedwood, California, April E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1877 (E. W. Nelson). [P.]. 



f. Ad. sk. Nevada, California, Oct. 1872 E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(E. W. Nelson). [P.]. 



g. 2 ad. sk. Fort Tejon, California, Dec. 3, U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



1857 (J. Xantus ; Sm. no. 



26128). 

 h. d ad. sk. Fort Tejon, California, Dec. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



26, 1857 (.7. Xantus; Sm. 



no. 26132). 

 i. 2 ad.sk. Greenwood Valley, Eldorado Salvin-Godman Coll. 



City, California, Dec. 19 



(A. Forrer). 

 k. Juv. sk. Nicasio, California, July 26, E. B. Sharpe, Esq, 



1883. [P.]. 



/. Ad. sk. Monterey. Zoological Society. 



(Type of species.) 



Subsp. ft. Pipilo mesoleucus. 



1'ipilo mesoleucus, Baird, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1854, p. 119; Scl. 



P. Z. S. 1856, p. 304 ; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 518, pi. 29 (1858) ; id. 



Mex. Bound. Surv. ii. Birds, p. 18 (1858) ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. 



p. 120 (1862). 

 liipilo fuscus, pt., Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 93, no. 7364 (1870). 

 Pipilo fuscus (nee Sw.), Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 152 (1872). 

 Pipilo fusca, var. mesoleuca, Bidgw. Bull. Essex Inst. v. p. 183 



(1873). 

 Pipilo fuscus, var. mesoleucus, Baird, Breiver, $(■ Ridgio. Hist. N. 



Amer. B. ii. p. 125, pi. 31. fig. 10 (1874) ; Hensh. Be}). Zool. Evpl. 



100th Merid. p. 304 (1875). 

 Pipilo fuscus mesoleucus, Bidgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. pp. 4, 



181 (1881) ; Cones, Check-l. 'N. Amer. B. p. 61 (1882) ; Belding, 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 343 (1883); Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 



2nd ed. p. 397 (1884) ; Brew, Auk, ii. p. 16 (1885) ; Stephens, t. c. 



p. 228; Hensh. Auk, iii. p. 74 (1886); A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. 



B. p. 285 (1886) ; Bidgw. Man. N Amer. B. p. 440 (1887). 



Adult male. Pale ashy brown above, the upper tail-coverts washed 

 with pale sandy rufous : wing-coverts light brown, externally 

 margined with ashy, and fringed with dull white at the ends ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, narrowly 

 edged with ashy ; tail-feathers dark brown, barred across with 

 dusky under certain lights, the outer ones slightly tipped with pale 

 sandy rufous : head a little more rufescent than the back, the lores 

 and feathers below the eye dull white ; ear-coverts pale sandy brown ; 



