PIPILO MEGALONYX— P. OREGONUS. 491 



38, nest and esRS; Sacramento, June 12, 1.8G7. Nest in bush. 



92, nest and eggs; Sacramento, June 21), 18G7. Nest in busb. 



09, nest and eggs (2) ; Hunter's Station, Nevada, July 1, 1807. Nest in bush, along 

 stream. 



835, nest and eggs (3); Austin,Nevada, July 4, 18C8. Nestiuwild-roso brier, along 

 stream in canon. 



850, 9arf.; East Humboldt Mountains, July 21, 1868. 5§— S;{— (?)_2^. Upper 

 mandible, black, tomium i)ale bluish ; lower, pale blue, point blackish ; iris, dark 

 Vandyke; tarsi and toes, dull sei)ia. 



9G2, i ad.; Salt Lake City, May 20, 1869. 5^—9^. liill, generally deei> black, 

 lower mandible plumbeous, .strip of black on gonys ; iris, dark brown ; tarsi and toes, 

 deej) black. 



1063, i ad.; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 27, 1869. 5§— 9J. Upper mandible, 

 black; lower, bluish-white, a streak of black on the gonys (a constiant feature in 

 adult males); iris, brown; tarsi and toes, sepia-black. 



1237, nest and eggs (3) ; Parley's Park, Utah, June 23, 1869. Nest in wild-rose 

 brier, by stream. 



1303, nest and eggs (4); Parley's Park, Utah, June 27, 1869. Nest in bush near 

 stream. 



1357, nest and eggs (4) ; Parley's Park, July 2, 1869. Nest among rosebushes, by 

 stream. 



1418, nest and eggs ; Parley's Park, July 16, 1869. 



PlPILO MACULATUS. 

 Western Toivliee. 



A. mefjalonyx — Long-clawed Ground Jtobin. 



Pipilo mcgalonyx, Baird, B. N. Am., 1858, 515, pi. Lxxiii; Cat. N. Am. B., 1850, 



No. 394.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., I, 1870, 242. 

 Pipilo maculafux xar. megahnyx, COUKS, Key, 1872, 152; Check List, 1873, No. 



205b.— B. B. & R., Ilist. N. Am. B., II, 1874, 113, pi. xxxi, fig. 12.— Uensoaw, 



1875, 303. 



y. oregonus — Oregon Ground Robin. 



Pipilo oregonus, Bell, Ann. Lye. N. H., New York, V, 1852, G.— lUiUD, B. N. 



Am., 1858, 513; Cat. M. Am. B., 1850, No. .302.— COOPER, Orn. Cal., I, 241. 

 Pipilo maculatus var. oregonus, CoUES, Key, 1872, 152 ; Check List, 1873, No. 205. 



B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. B., II, 1874, 116, pi. XXI, fig. 9. 



Of the western species of tliis genus, wliich i-esenible in tlieir p^eneral 

 iiijirkings the P. ergthrophUHdmus of the East, three definable forms liavo 

 been recognized, these representing separate geographical areas, and thus 

 corresponding to what are termed geographical, or climatic, races.' These 



' Typical maculatus, representing a fourth race, inhabits the tabieUuids of Mexico; 

 additional forms are, P. carmani, Baird, of Socorro Island, and P. consobrinus, Ridg- 

 way, of Guadalupe. 



