43S NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



(P. Buck witbout -white streaks. {Adult males with general color 

 of upper parts dusky grayish brown, the outermost scapu- 

 lars with outer webs partly white, and both rows of winic- 

 coverts tipped with small white spots; only one or two outer 

 tail-feathers with white terminal spots, these very small — less 

 than .90 long.) 

 £>. Larger: Wing 3.30, tail 3.70, culmen .CO, tarsus 1.15. Adult 

 male : Head, neck, and chest brownish black, becoming 

 dark graj-ish brown, indistinctly streaked with darker, on 

 top of head and hind-neck; back and scapulars umber- 

 brown, tinged with rust}-, broadly, though rather indis- 

 tinctly, streaked with dusky. Hah. Southern Mexico 

 (Puebla). p. submaculatus Kidow. Submaculated Towhee.' 



e\ Smaller: Wing 2.G0-2.S0 (2.74), tail 3.00-3.15 (3.07), exposed 

 culmen .49-.53 (.50), tarsus .94-1.01 (.98). Adult male: 

 Head, neck, chest, and upper parts dark sootj' grayish 

 brown. Adult female : Similar to the male, but browner. 

 Jlati. Socorro Island, westei'u Mexico. 



P. carmani Lawr. Socorro Towhee.' 

 ?A Wings and tail olive-green. (Adult males with head, neck, and chest black, 

 breast and bellj- white, and sides rufous, as in P. erythrophthalmus 

 and allies; females unknown.) 

 c'. Tail 4.50, or more; top of head without rufous spot, and throat with- 

 out white patch. 

 d'. Back and scapulars streaked with blackish and pale 3-ellow, the 

 outer webs of exterior scapulars almost wholly of this color; 

 middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with pale yellow, form- 

 ing two distinct bands across wing; three outer tail-feathers 

 with terminal portion of inner web abruptly ]«de j-oUow or 

 j-ellowish white, the spot on outermost feather about 1.10 

 long ; lenglli about 8.75-9.00, wing 3.70-3.80. tail 4.60, culmen 

 .70-.75, tarsus 1.15-1.25. Hah. Valley of Jlexico. 



P. macronyx Swains. Swainson's Towhee.' 

 d'. Back and scajnilars plain olive-green ; wing-coverts without dis- 

 tinct yellowish tips, and whitish or light j-ellowish spots at 

 tips of outer tail-feathers not sharply defined ; length about 

 8.00-8.50, tail 4.50. culmen .68, tarsus 1.15-1.25. Hab. South- 

 ern Mexico (Oaxaca). 



P. chlorosoma Baiud. Green-backed Towhee.* 

 c'. Tail not more than 4.00 ; top of head with a rufous spot, and throat 

 with a white patch. 



• Pipiln lubmaculalut Rinow., Auk, iii. July, 1.SS6, 332. 

 » Pipilo cannniii Lawr., Ann. L.vo. N. x. 1871, 7. 

 » Pipilo macrnmjx SwAi.NS., Pliili)s. Mng. n. s. i. 1827, 434. 

 < Pipilo chloroioma Baird, liidt. N. Am. B. ii. IS74, 105. 



