PIPILO MRGALONYX— P. ORKGOVDS. 41)5 



List of specimens. 



ft. mcffalonyx. 



Oofi, nest ami eggs (2) ; Salt Lake City, May 20, 18G9. Nest on ground, among 

 scrub oaks on hill-side. 



957, nest and eggs (3); Salt Lake City, May 20, 18G9. Same remarks. 



9.58, S ad.; Salt Lake City, Utali, May 20, 1869. 8J— IO4. Bill, pure black ; iris, 

 red-lead color; tarsi and toes, slaty-sepia. 



10C3, $ ad.; Salt Lake City, May 24, 1809. 8L|_11. Bill, pure black ; iris, 

 intense scarlet; tarsi, purplish-sepia, toes darker. 



10;5-1, <? ad.; Salt Lake City, May 24, 1809. 8-J— 11^. Same remarks. 



1035, S ad.; Salt Lake City, ]\Iay 24, 1869. 8^—11. Same remarks. 



1043, nest and eggs (4); Salt Lake City, May 24, 1869. Nest on ground, beneath 

 sage-bush. 



1069, ? ad.; Salt Lake City, May 29, 1869. 8f— 11. Same remarks. 



1096, nest and eggs (4) ; Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, June 4, 1869. Side of 

 ravine. Nest on ground, beneath sage-bush. 



1185, nest and eggs (3) ; Salt Lake City, June 18, 1869. Nest on ground, among 

 scrub-oaks. 



1186, nest and eggs (3) ; Salt Lake City, June 18, 1869. Nest on ground, beneath 

 uprooted oak in thicket. 



y. oregonus. 



35, nest and eggs (3); Sacramento City, California, June 12, 1867. Nest on 

 ground, beneath fallen dead thistle, in thick cotton-wood copse. 



Itni, i ad.; West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, September 20, 1867. 85— lOJ— 

 3-['g — ^—32 — I — '^ — 2f. Bill, blackish-slate, commissure and lower mandible inclin- 

 ing to ashy; iris, deep hrowni.sh reniiHionred ; tarsi and toes, dark horn-color. 



222, 2 ad.; West Humboldt Mountains, October 3, 1867. 8§— lOg— 3i— 24 — i— 

 1 — 4^ — 2^. Bill, black, lower mandible inclining to dusky slate, paler basally; iVw, 

 light hazel red ; tarsi and toes, deep purplish horn-color. 



227, (?«(/.; West Humboldt Mountains, October 4, 1807. 8g— 11^33— 3^^— 

 3'j — 1 — 4y'g — 15. Bill, slate-black, ashy on lower mandible; iris, light brownishi/elloic ; 

 tar.si and toes, light horn color. 



235, (J ad.; West Humboldt Mountains, October 7, 1867. 8§— lO^'j — 3.J— 25 — y%— 

 i| — 4 — 2 J. Tris, deep rufous. 



434, 9 ad.; Carson City, Nevada, March 9, 1808. 8i— lOJ— 3J— 2?. Bill, slate- 

 black; iris, intense orange-cJi,rome ; tarsi and toes, dilute purplish-sepia, the toes with a 

 violaceous cast. 



476, ^a</.; Carson City, March 30, 1868. Sg-llg— 3§— 3. Bill, perfectly uni- 

 form, slaty black ; iris, rich scarlet. 



405, (J ad.; Carson City, April 4, 1868. 8g — 11 — 3g — 3. Same remarks. 



[In the western species, the iris when intense red — indicatiug high maturity — 

 is never of the carmine shade often seen in erythrophthalmus, but inclines more to 

 Hcarlet or orange-red.] 



