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wing-coverts, and upper part of rump barred, in about equal ju'opor- 

 tious, with black and white, the former predominating on the wings; 

 secondaries black, broadly barred with white ; primaries black, tipped 

 with white, and with a somewhat broken but conspicuous patch of the 

 same near the base, on the outer surface ; upper tail-coverts and lower 

 part of rump white, usually nearly or quite immaculate. Tail black, the 

 inner webs of the intermedicG usually wholly black, but very rarely (iu onl^^ 

 one among twenty-five specimens) with a slight blotching of white toward 

 the base, and partially concealed by the coverts ; outer rectrices inclin- 

 ing to hoary drab on the under surface, the outer webs notched with white 

 toward the end, and the terminal portion of the inner web with one or 

 two bars of white; next feather sometimes tipped with brownisli white 

 or light brown. Adult $ : Similar to the male, but red crown-patch want- 

 ing, the whole pileum being ash-gray, lighter anteriorly. Young c? (not 

 full grown): Colors much more dingy than in the adult, and all the 

 markings less clearly defiued. Pileum dull light grayish brown, the 

 feathers somewhat mottled with dusky, passing gradually into light 

 yellowish fulvous on the nape, the middle of the crown dull red; back 

 washed with fulvous; breast streaked with black. (No. 450-14, Laredo, 

 Tex., July 28. 18GG; H. B. Butcher.) Bill slate-black; feet dusky 

 (olivaceous in life ?). Wing,5.20-5.C5; tail, 3.40-3.75 ; culmen, 1 20-1.4i>; 

 tarsus, 1.00. 



Decidedly the largest specimen among the twenty-five before me is 

 an adult male from Silao, Mexico (Mme. Verdey), in the collection of 

 Messrs. Salvin and Godman. In this the red crown-patch is very large, 

 covering the entire vertex, and anteriorly touching the orange-yellow 

 frontlet, thus almost obliterating the usual grayish white frontal band; 

 the nape is a deep reddish orange, more yellow below. I^o. 4GS15, from 

 Laredo, Texas (January IG, 18G7 ; H. B. Butcher), also has the red crown- 

 patch very large, and the nape still more intense flame-color than the 

 i:)receding ; the white frontal band is well defined and complete, how- 

 ever, though posteriorly the red crown very nearly joins the orange-red 

 of the nape along the middle line. No. 74G77, Medina County, Texas, 

 (April 19, 1878 ; G-. H. Kagsdale), has the whitish frontal band broader, 

 and the red crown much more restricted, tliough posteriorly it ap- 

 IDarently does join tbe bright orange nape in the middle portion. In 

 most examples, however, the red on the crown forms a thoroughly iso- 

 lated patch of variable form (oval, shield-shaped, or squarish, according 

 to the "make" of the skin), the nai)e bright orange-yellow, and the 

 frontal band, of grayish white, broad and comi^lete. In the female the 

 yellow of tbe nape is usually much less intense than iu the male, in one 

 example belonging to ^Messrs. Salvin and Godman's collection (vicinity 

 of Mexico City, Boucard) being of a dull oily-yellow hue. 



An adult male from Texas, in Mr. Lawrence's collection, has the red 

 of the crown completely confluent with that of the nape, exactly as iu 

 typical santacruzl, except that the gray of the superciliary region en- 



