56. CIRTONYX. 



4-S, 



■with black on the webs and down the shaft, especially on the feathers 

 of the sides and flanks. In vcn- old (?) specimens these black marks 

 are much reduced. Total length 7"^ inches, wing 4-7, tail 2-1, 

 tarsus I'l, middle toe and claw Vdo. 



Hah. Mexico, e.xtcndiuij north to Arizona and S.W. Texas, south 

 to the City of Mexico, west to Jalisco, and east to Tamaulipas. 



a-c. c? 2 nd. sk. 

 et St. 



d. (5 ad. sk. 



e. 2 ad. sk. 



/. 2 ad. sk. 

 ff. J ad. sk. 

 /t. (J ad. sk. 

 I. cJ ad. sk. 

 k. 2 nd. sk. 

 /, in. cJ ad. sk. 

 71. (J ad. sk. 

 o, J). J ad. sk. 



q. <£ ad. sk. 



r, s. d 2 "^^' ^^• 



t. cf ad- sk. 



«-y. 6 2 *d. et 

 imm. sk. 



Mexico. 



Arizona (//. W.Henshaio). 

 Apaciie, Arizona, Sept. (Z)r. 



C. G. Newberry). 

 Crittenden, Arizona, Sept. 



[H. IV. H.) 

 S.E. Arizona, Sept. {Lieut. 



Silman). 

 Yeccera, Sonora, April ( H '. 



Lloyd). 

 State of Chiliualuia (Ba- 



chan-Hephiirn ) . 

 Jesus M:tria, Chihuahua, 



Dec. ( W. L.) 

 Canada, Chihuahua, Feb. 



( ir. L.). 



Kcar Choix, Sinaloa, June 

 (TF.Z.). 



Sierra Madre, Tepic, Ja- 

 lisco, GOOO f.'et, June( Jf. 

 B. liichurd-ion). 



Near City i)f .Mexico. 



Puebla (liebouch). 



Sierra Madre above Ciudad 

 Victoria, Tamaulipas ( W. 

 B.IL). 



Baudera llilLs, Texas, Nov. 

 (If. E. Dresser). 



Gould and Eyton 



CoUs. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Gould and Tweed- 

 dale Colls. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Cyrtonyx sallaei. 



Cyrtonyx salhui, I'err. Arcana Nat. i. p. '.in, pi. 4 (18")9) ; Gray, 

 List' Gallimc Brit. Mas. p. 74 (1807) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 2^2 

 (1870) ; Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 1U4 (1887). 



AduU male. At once distinguished from the male of C. monte- 

 zumcr by having the shaft-stripes to the feathers of the upper parts 

 (except those of the mantle) orange-rufous or chestnut; the black 

 bars on the wiug-coverts, scapuLirs, and outer secondaries much 

 narrower and in the form of bands which are about half the width 

 of the interspaces ; the whole of circuinorbitid stripe, as well as the 

 triangular patch on the cheeks, dark bluish black ; the sides of the 

 breast and tlauks paler grey, and the row of spots on each web 

 arc rufous butl' or chestnut. Total length 8*3 inches, wing 5-2, 

 tail 2-2, tarsus Mo, middle toe and claw TUo. 



