°'897 J ^'^^^os, Ne-cv Birds fi-0!i! Mexico and GiiafcDiala. 6 7 



as can be judged bj the specimens before me, are narrower and darker 

 than usual in the other forms, thus producing the more uniformly brown 

 appearance. Six specimens before me give the following dimensions. 



Localit) . 



Etzatlan, Jalisco. 



Querendaro, 

 Mich. 



Querendaro, 

 Mich. 



Etzatlan, Jalisco. 



Querendaro, 

 Mich. 



Querendaro, 

 Mich. 



E. W. Nelson. 



20.5 



Peucaea ruficeps australis, new .subspecies. Southkrn 



Sparrow. 



TyJ>e,No. 136131,11. S. Nat. Museum, Dept. Agric. coll., $, Citv of 

 Oaxaca, O&xaca, June 15, 1894, Collected by E. W. Nelson and E. A. 

 Goldman (Orig. No. 2104). 



Distribution. — That outlying part of the Mexican table-lands occupied 

 by the Valley of Oaxaca, and adjacent mountains up to 6000 or 7000 feet. 

 On the north its range merges into that of boucardi, which is common 

 about the Valley of Mexico and on the plains of Puebla. 



Description. — Similar to P. boucardi, from which it differs in tiie light 

 rusty-red shade of the rufous on the dorsal surface, the small amount of 

 ashy bordering the featiiers of the back, and the more fulvous lower 

 surface. 



In general coloration it is much nearer scotti of Chihuahua 

 and southern Arizona, but the rufous of australis is of a paler or 

 more rusty shade, and it is smaller with a heavier bill. The 

 present form is at once distinguishable from fusca (of this paper) 

 by the very much lighter shade of the red or rusty color on the 

 dorsal surface. 



