388 PHASTANIP-T.. 



situated on the middle of the breast ; feathered part of the back of 

 the neck, upper back, lesser, median, and greater secondary-coverts 

 and underparts copper-bronze, shot with purplish green and fiery 

 gold, the feathers except on the neck, mantle, and chest margined 

 with black ; lower l>ack and rump black, with a subterminal metallic 

 purplish band ; upper tail-coverts with the basal part barred with 

 chestnut and the extremity widely tipped with white. Primaries, 

 primary-coverts, and bastard-wing nearly equally barred with dark 

 brown and white, the white bars on the inner webs more or less 

 mottled with brown ; secondaries similar, but the white bars are 

 narrower and the brown paler and mixed with rufous, especially on 

 the outer quills, which are somewhat glossed on the outer web with 

 purplish green and red-gold. Flank-feathers and under tail-coverts 

 black, with a wide subterminal metallic band and widely tipped 

 with white. Tail-feathers mottled with dull chestnut and black, with 

 a wide subterminal black band and white tip, the outer feathers 

 have a slight metallic band across the middle of the black. Naked 

 skin on head and neck pale crimson ; bill orange-red ; legs and feet 

 coral-red. Total length ca. 43 inches, wing 21, tail 15-5, tarsus 7. 



Adult female. Difiers from the male in having the feathers up the 

 middle of the back of the neck continued in a narrow band over the 

 crown to the base of the small erectile process ; no bunch of hair- 

 like feathers on the breast and no spurs ; the plumage is very similar 

 though not so bright, and the lower back and all the underparts are 

 fringed with white like the feathers of the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts. Total length ca. 40 inches, wing 17"9, tail 14-3, tarsus 5-3. 



Hab. Tablelands of ^^orth Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, and 

 Western Texas. 



a. Juv. sk. Santa Fe Mts., New Mexico, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



July {H. W. Henshmv). 



b. (S ad. sk. Mexico. (Type of Meleagris mexicann, Gould.) 



c. 2 ad. sk. Ciudad Durango {Fnrrer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. c? ad. et imm. st. Midland Counties, England, 

 [domestic var.]. 



e. c? ad. St. England, 

 [domestic var. with tufted head]. 



/; ff. Skulls. Yarrell Coll. 



Subsp. a. Meleagris ellioti. 



Meleagris mexicana, Baird {nee Gould), B. N. Amer. p. 018 (1860) 



[part.]. 

 Meleag:ris gallopavo, Dresser (nee Linn.), Ibis, 1866, p. 25 [S. Texas, 



N.E. Mexico] ; Sennett, Bull. U. S. GeoL Surv. iv. no. 1, p. 63 (1878) 



[Rio Grande, Texas], and v. no. 3, p. 427 (1879) [Lomita] ; Brown, 



Bnll. Nutf. Orii. C. viii. p. 41 (1882) [S.W. Texas]. 

 Meleagris g.illopavo, var. mexicauus, Baird, Brexv., ^- Bide/ic. N. 



Amer. B. iii. pp. 403, 410 (1874) [part.]. 

 Meleagris gallopavo, var. intermedia, Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. 



V. p. 428 (1879). 

 Meleagris gallopavo mexicann, Ridgiv. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 207 



(1887) [part.,E. Mexico, S. Texas]; Bendire, N. Am. B. p. 116 



(1892) [part.]. 



