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Illinois: Sugai' Creek Prairie;* Silver Creek Prairie;* Richland 

 County;* Wabash County.* 



Indiana: Wheatland.* 



Pennsylvania: Carlisle;* Clearville;* Springville;* Needmore;* 

 Chark'sville.* 



District of Columbia: Washington, 



Tennessee: Roane County. 



Georgia: Macon. 



Florida: Waukeenah. 



Texas: Brazos; Waller County. 



THRYOMANES BEWICKII CRYPTUS, new subspecies. 



ThrjjothorK.s hewickii hitcogastrr Baikd, Rev. Aiiier. Birds, 1864, I, p. 127 (nee 



TrofjJodnfefi Iciicoffasira Gould, quae Reminra leucogastra). 

 Thri/othoriis hewickii hairdi A O. U. Check-List, 1886, p. 328 (in part). 



Chars, snhsp. — Thryonianes T. b. bewickii siinilis, sed major; notaeo 

 dilutiore et canesceiitiore. 



Measurements {18 specimens). — Wing, 53 to 61 (average, 5G.8) mm. ; tail, 

 52 t(» 01 (average, 56.3) mm.; exposed culmen, 13.5 to 15.5 (average, 



14.1) mm.; bill from nostril, 10 to 11 (average, 10.4) ram.; tarsus, 17.5 

 to 19.5 (average, 18.3) mm.; middle toe with claw, 15 to 17 (average, 



16.2) mm. 



Type locality. — San Antonio, Texas. 



Geographic distribution. — Texas, except the extreme western corner, 

 States of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulijjas, in Mexico, with probably Kan- 

 sas, Indian Territory, and Oklahoma. Migratory north of Texas. 



T</j^e.— Male, adult; No. 112838, U.S.N.M.; San Antonio, Texas, Jan- 

 uary 5, 1887; C. W. P,eckham. 



Description. — Upper surface rich, warm broccoli brown, darker and 

 more rufous on rumi),the feathers of which have more or less concealed 

 white spots; superior tail-coverts hair brown, obscurely barred with 

 blackish. Wings fuscous; innermost secondaries and outer webs of 

 the others marked transversely with the color of the back; primaries 

 margined basally on external webs with bufty; wing coverts like the 

 back, the greater series with obsolete fuscous bars. Middle tail-feath- 

 ers, and at least basal portion of exterior webs of all but outer pair, 

 hair brown, barred regularly, though not sharply, with bla,ckish; re- 

 mainder of tail black, with very faintly indicated paler bars, continuous 

 with those on outer webs; two external pairs of feathers broadly tipped 

 with grayish white, the outermost deeply indented with white on outer 

 webs; remainder of rectrices tipped with hair brown. Superciliary 

 white; lores and cheeks grayish white, mingled with brownish; post- 

 ocular streak like the crown; sides of the neck brownish gray; lower 

 surface grayish white, scarcely tinged with brownish on flanks; cris- 

 sura slightly washed with ochraceous, and barred with black; axillars 

 and under wing-coverts grayish white. 



