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Aphelocoma texana. — Texan Jay. 



Similar to A, cyattotis but white superciliary streak more distinct, 

 under parts much paler and browner gray, the lower throat and chest 

 without blue streaks (obsoletely streaked with pale grayish). Differing 

 from A. woodhoiiseii in obsolete streaking of chest and lower throat, much 

 paler and browner gray of breast, etc., and pure white under tail-coverts. 



Southwestern Texas, from Concho and Kerr Counties west to the 

 Davis Mts. (Alpine, Ft. Davis, Paisano, etc.). 



Tvpe, no. 150507, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., adult female, near head of Nueces 

 R., Edwards, Co., Texas, Dec. i, 1894; H. P. Attwater. 



TWO SUBSPECIES WHICH SHOULD BE ADDED TO 

 THE CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



BY EDGAR A. MEARNS, 



Mimus polyglottos leucopterus (Vigors). 

 Western Mockingbird. 



Orpheus leucopterus Vigors, Zool. Beechey's Voyage of ' Blossom,' 

 1839, p. 18 (Pacific coast of North America). 



Mimus leucopterus Baird, Stansbury's Report, Great Salt Lake, 1853, 

 p. 328. 



Geographical Distributioti. — Southwestern United States, from the 

 Gulf of Mexico (Texas) to the Pacific Ocean, and southward into Mexico, 

 including all of Lower California; resident in the southern and lower 

 portions of its range, migratory in the northern and higher portions. 



Characters. — Similar to bvit larger than Aliiuus polyglottos polyglottos, 

 with tail relatively rather short (measuring about the same), wings 5 to 

 10 mm. longer, feet stouter, bill slightly longer and more slender. Gen- 

 eral color paler than in polyglottos, less grayish (more drab), and with the 

 underparts more washed with clay-color ; white markings, especially 

 those of the wings, more extended ; wing-quills all tipped with white ; ter- 

 tials edged with grayish or brownish white. The greater extent of white 

 on the bases of the primaries is conspicuous during flight; and the two 

 white bands caused by the white tips of the wing-coverts are much broader- 



