PIPILO MEGALONYX— P. OREGONUS. 495 



List of specimens. 

 /?. megalonyx. 



95G, nest and eggs (2) ; Siilt Lake (Jity, May 20, 18(j9. Nest on ground, among 

 scrub-oaks on bill-side. 



957, nest and eggs (3) ; Salt Lake City, May 20, 1869. Same remarks. 



958, $ ad.; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 20, 1869. 8i— lOJ. Bill, pure black ; iris, 

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



10?3, <?rtrf.; Salt Lake City, May 24, 18G9. 8i|— 11. Bill, pure black; iris, 

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



1034, <? ad.; Salt Lake City, May 24, 1869. 8f— Hi. Same remarks. 



1035, S ad.; Salt Lake City, May 24, 1869. 81—11. Same remarks. 



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



/. oregonus. 



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

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



199, (J ad.; West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, September 20, 1867. 8§— lOf— 

 3f'„— 3 — i| — I — 4 — 23. Bill, blackish-slate, commissure and lower mandible inclin- 

 ing to ashy ; iris, deep brownish vermilion-red ; tarsi and toes, dark horn-color. 



222, 9 a4.; West Humboldt Mountains, October 3, 1867. 8|— lOg— 3i— 2^— i— 

 1—41 — 21. Bill, black, lower mandible inclining to dusky slate, paler basally; rris^ 

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



227, <? ad.; West Humboldt Mountains, October 4, 1867. 8§— 11^33— 3J,.— 

 j\ — 1 — 4^*5 — If. Bill, slate-black, ashy on lower mandible; iris, light broicnish-yellow ; 

 tarsi and toes, light horn-color. 



235, i ad.; West Humboldt Mountains, October 7, 1867. 8§— 10/^- 3i— 2J— ,%— 

 i| — 4 — 21. Iris, deep rufous. 



434, 9 ad.; Ciirson City, Nevada, March 9, 1808. 81-101—3^-23. Bill, slate- 

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

 violaceous cast. 



476, ^arf.; Carson City, March 30, 1868. 8g-ll|— 35— 3. Bill, perfectly uni- 

 form, slaty black ; iris, rich scarlet. 



495, <J ad.; Carson City, April 4, 1868. 8g — 11 — 3§ — 3. Same remarks. 



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

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

 scarlet or orange-red.] 



