756 FRINGILLID^. 



Cat. Amer. B. p. 120 (1862); Gray, Hand-l B. ii. p. 92, no. 7358 

 (1870) ; Lam. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mm. no. iv. p. 22 (1878). 

 Pipilo rutilus, Scl. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 33 (1873) ; Salvia 

 fy Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 410 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above brown with a slight olive 

 tinge ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts 

 brown, externally like the back, with narrow whitish ends, forming 

 an indistinct double wing-bar ; bastard-wing brown, fringed with 

 whitish : primary-coverts and quills brown, edged with the same 

 colour as the back, paler and more ashy on the primaries ; upper 

 tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers brown, rather more olive- 

 brown on the margins; crown of head like the back; lores and 

 feathers round the eye white ; feathers below the eye and ear- 

 coverts brown with faintly indicated shaft-lines ; cheeks brown, 

 whitish anteriorly ; throat white, with a band of tawny rufous 

 across the centre reaching on to the hinder cheeks ; a malar line of 

 blackish-brown spots, joined to a crescentic line of blackish-tipped 

 feathers on the fore neck and chest; chest white, mottled with ashy 

 brown ends to the feathers, the sides of the breast ashy brown ; 

 lower breast and abdomen white, more tawny on the lower abdomen ; 

 sides of body ashy brown, slightly tinged with olive, the flanks 

 washed with tawny buff; thighs ashy brown, whitish on their inner 

 aspect ; under tail-coverts bright tawny rufous ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillarics white, with dusky brown bases ; quills below dusky, 

 ashy whitish along the inner edge. Total length 7 - S inches, culmen 

 0-65, wing 3-35, tail 3*65, tarsus 1. 



Hab. Mexico. 



a. $ ad. sk. Oaxaca, Mexico, March 1854 (A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salle). 



b. Ad. sk. Oaxaca {A. Boucard). Sclater Coll. 



(Type of P. albicollis.) 



c. d ad. sk. Mexico. A.' Salle" [C.]. 



8. Pipilo aberti. 



Pipilo aberti, Baird in Stansbury's Rep. Exped. Gt. Salt Lake, 

 p. 325 (1852) ; id. B. N. Amer. p. 510 (1858) ; id. Mex. Bound. 

 Surv., Birds, p. 18 (1858); Scl. Cat, Amer. B. p. 119 (1802); 

 Cooper, B. Calif, p. 244 (1870); Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 93, 

 no. 7300 (1870) ; Coues, Bey N. Amer. B. p. 153 (1872) ; Baird, 

 Brewer, # Ridc/w. Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. p. 128, pi. 31. fig. 7 (1874) ; 

 Hensh. Bep. Zool. E.vpl. \Q0th Merid. p. 300 (1875) ; Ridqw. Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 181 (1881); Cows, Check-l. N. Amer. B. 

 p. 01 (1882) ; id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 398 (1884) ; Drew, 

 Auk, ii. p. 10 (1885); A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. B. p. 285 

 (1886) ; Ridyw. Man. N Amer. B. p. 441 (1887). 



Kieneria aberti, Bp. C. R. xl. p. 356 (1855). 



Adidt male. General colour pale isabelline brown, deeper and 

 more rufescent on the upper tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts like 

 the back ; the median and greater series and the bastard-wing light 



