248 Mearns, Descriptions, of New Birds from Arizona. (July 



the dark markings of the wings and tail, are less restricted. The irides 

 are hazel, the entire bill light yellowish green, the tarsi and toes pale 

 yellowish brown, and the claws dark brown. The general color is yellow- 

 ish brown instead of grayish. 



Young Male in First Plumage (No. 4165, Coll. E. A. Mearns, Oak Creek-, 

 thirty miles north of Fort Verde, Arizona, August 14, 1SS5) : — In general 

 appearance it resembles the female more than the male, although traces 

 of the male dress are present, as indications of the frontal crescent, black 

 patch on crown, dark mantle, white tertials, and wholly black primaries 

 and tail-feathers. The grayish tinge is entirely wanting. The body is 

 olivaceous buff, more greenish above and brownish below; frontal cres- 

 cent buff; crown patch with a brownish black spot occupying the centre 

 of each feather; stripe on each side of throat dusky olive; interscapular 

 region darker olivaceous; rump with blackish edging to the feathers; 

 upper tail-coverts black, broadly edged with greenish buff, the longest of 

 them black throughout; inner greater wing-coverts sulphur-yellow; ter- 

 tials smoky white, with a slight amount of dusky on their inner edge; 

 feathers of crissum white, edged with a pale buff; bill greenish olive, 

 yellowish green only at extreme base; tarsus, toes and claws brown. 

 Another specimen (No. 4164, $, juv.), presumably belonging to the 

 same brood, of which the female above described was the parent, differs 

 in having the crown patch indicated by a slightly darker olivaceous color- 

 ing instead of having blackish centres to the feathers, in having the lon- 

 gest upper tail-coverts tipped with buff, and more black on the inner edge 

 of the tertials, though much less in amount than in adult females. There is 

 also a small white spot at the tip of the inner web of the outer tail-feather. 

 The bill, tarsus, toes, and claws are a little less dark than in the preceding 

 specimen, although both have. these parts darker than in either parent. 



Rc?narks. — In fully adult males, of both subspecies, the tertials 

 lose the smoke-brown tint and the black inner edging, becoming 

 pure white ; and the tail-feathers lose the white on their inner 

 webs, becoming black throughout. There is considerable varia- 

 tion in respect to the breadth of the yellow frontal crescent of both 

 forms. In most specimens a very narrow edging of black is 

 interposed between the maxilla and the yellow front, which occa- 

 sionally appears as a broad black band encroaching on the yellow, 

 but is quite frequently absent. The broadest front in the series is 

 in an immature bird from Hudson's Bay Territory, specimens 

 from Minnesota, Arizona, and Washington Territory, respec- 

 tively, coming next to it, in this respect ; and the narrowest front 

 is seen in an immature male from the city of Mexico, specimens 

 from Minnesota, New Mexico, Washington, California, and 

 Arizona following in order after it. The original type of mon- 



