344 Allen, Recently Described North American Birds. I "£* 



Average of S males of D. coronata: wing, 2.S7 ; tail, 2.16; exposed 

 culmen, .35 in. 



Average of 10 females of D. c. Iiooveri: wing, 2.87; tail, 2.22; 

 exposed culmen, .36 in. 



Average of 10 females of D. coronata: wing, 2.70; tail, 2.10; exposed 

 culmen, .35 in. 



Thryomanes bewickii cryptus Oberholscr. } 



" Thryothorus bewickii leucogaster Baird, Rev. Amer. Birds, 1S64, I, 

 p. 127 (nee Troglodytes leucogastra Gould, quae Hemiura leucogastra). 



Thryothorus bezvickii bairdi A. O. U. Check-List, 1886, p. 328 (in 

 part). 



" Chars, subsp. — Thryomanes T. b. bewickii similis, sed major, notaeo 

 dilutiore et canescentiore. 



"Measurements (/S specimens'). — Wing, 53 to 61 (average 56.8) mm.; 

 *.tail, 52 to 61 (average, 56.3) mm.; exposed culmen, 13.5 to 15.5 (average, 



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

 to 19.5 (average, 1S.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 Tamaulipas, in Mexico, with probably Kan- 

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



" Type. — Male, adult; No. 11283S, U. S. N. M. ; San Antonio, Texas, 

 January 5, 1S87 ; C. W. Beckham. 



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

 more rufous on rump, 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 buffy ; wing-coverts like the 

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

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

 brown, barred regularly, though not sharplj', with blackish ; remainder 

 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; postocular streak 

 like the crown; sides of the neck brownish gray; lower surface grayish 

 white, scarcely tinged with brownish on flanks ; crissum slightly washed 

 with ochraceous, and barred with black; axillars and under-coverts wing 

 grayish white." 



1 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXI, No. 11 53, Nov. 19, 1898, 425. 



