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and in this abraded coiiditiou are sometimes rather difficult to distin- 

 guish with certainty from cremopMlus, thougli typical examples, par- 

 ticularly in fall and winter, are with little difficulty identifiable. 



There have been available no specimens from Kansas, Indian Terri- 

 tory, or Oklahoma, but cryptus will doubtless be found to be the form 

 occupying this region. Specimens from Eodriguez, Nuevo Leon, Mex- 

 ico; Santa Rosalia, Tamaulipas; Mier, Tamaulipas; and Fort Clark, 

 Texas, are apparently typical cryptus. Young birds seem to be usually 

 paler than the young of any of the other forms. 



Sixty four specimens have been examined, from the following locali- 

 ties, breeding records being designated by an asterisk: 



Texas: Cisco; San Angelo; San Antonio;* Lomita;* Dublin; Fort 

 Clark;* San Lorenzo Creek; Beeville; Bee County;* Leon Springs; 

 Brownsville;* Sycamore Creek; Fort Davis; Roma;* Brown wood;* 

 Mouth of Pecos River; Mouth of Devils River; Comanche County; 

 Atascosa County. 



Nuevo Leon: Rodriguez; China.* 



Tamaulipas: Mier;* Santa Rosalia.* 



THRYOMANES BEWICKIl EREMOPHILUS, new subspecies. 

 Thryoihorushewickii bairdi A. O. V. Check-List, 1886, ]). 328 (in pnrt). 



Chars subsp. — Thryomanes T. b. crypto affinis; sed partibus supe- 

 rioribus magis griseis distinguendus. 



Measurements [18 specimens). — Wing, 51 to GO (average, 50. 1) mm.; tail, 

 50.5 to 63.5 (average, 56.8) mm. ; exposed culmen, 13 to 15 (average, 13.8) 

 mm.; bill from nostril, 9 to 11 (average, 10) mm.; tarsus, 15 to 18.5 (aver- 

 age, 18) mm.; middle toe with claw, 13.5 to 17 (average, 15.5) mm. 



Type locality. — Big Hatchet Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico. 



Geographic distribution. — Extreme western Texas (in winter to cen- 

 tral part), Arizona, New Mexico, and southeastern California, south 

 over the table-lands of western Mexico to central Zacatecas; north to 

 Colorado, southern Utah, southern Nevada, and possibly southeastern 

 Oregon. Resident south of Colorado. 



Type.—MoXe, adult; No. 126774, U.S.N.M.; Big Hatchet Mountains, 

 Grant County, New Mexico, May 10, 1892; Mearns and Holzner. 



Descr'qytion. — Above uniform pale grayish sepia, slightly rufescent 

 on the rump, the feathers of which have more or less concealed white 

 spots; upper tail-coverts hair brown, faintly barred with darker. Wing- 

 (]ullls fuscous, indented externally witli the color of the upper surface, 

 wing-coverts like the back. Middle tail-feathers, and basal portion of 

 exterior webs of the rest, with the exception of the outermost pair, 

 hair brown, regularly barred with black; three outer pairs with broad 

 grayish tips, and white indentations on exterior webs, these latter 

 most numerous on the outer jjair; other rectrices tipped with hair 

 brown; remainder of tail black. Superciliary stripe white; lores and 



