r IMXrj ILLID.E - TIIK KIX( 'III-X 



523 



tluit ])ait of the cniiiiiiy, tlntuj^li ilu-y may have In-en mistaken lor other 

 species. 



|)r. Cones mentions the taking of a single sjKK'imen of this sjHieies, Octo- 

 ber 17, on the (tjien unissy )»hiins of Arizona, 



Tliis species is also Ljiven hy Mr. Snmichrast as a resident throughont the 

 year of the great phiins of the phitean of Mexico. From them it occasion- 

 ally descencls to the distant intervals, as far as Orizaba, or at the elevation, 

 above the gnlf-level, of 1,220 metres. 



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Pl'^ctco >^'^nes maccowni, T.wvnKxrE. 



CBE&THVl^yr/rjji:^,^}. L0NG8PUE; MACCOWN'S BXTNTIHO. 



Pferfrnjihnn's mnccou-m', . ;wni A ''in. X. Y. I.yc. V. Sipt. IS'A, ^'2•2. Wi-storn Texas. 

 - I'.vssiN, Illust. I, viii, 18r»r», 2:^8, pi. x.wix. ~ 11i;i:i;m, X, c, \>. 13. — Uaiud, IJirds 

 N. Am. 1858, 437. 



Sp. Char. }f<iJe in sprinti. Top of head, a lnoad stript' t-ach si(l«» the throat from 

 lower inaitililtlc. ami a liroatl «rt'six'iit -on juiriiliMii, 

 lilack; si«U* ol" head iiH'Imlin^- ji»r«'s and Itand altovc 

 the eye, throat, and under parts, a>liy-wliite ; ear- 

 eoverts l»ordere(l altove and l)ehind l»y l>laekisli. iiui- 

 nint^: <.)Ut at the maxillary strij)e. Hreast just Iieliind the 

 black crescent and sides. slio\vin<r dark bases of feath- 

 ers. Tpper parts 'ly, tinired with yellowish on the 

 niandil>le, and stfKiked with dusky; least so on nap«; 

 and rump. Lesser win<r-eoverts ashy; median eh(>st- 

 nut-brown. with blackish bases .sometimes evident; ^''' '"•'';>*"«« '^«cc"u-,,m. u,«r. 



the (piills all bordered broadly externally with whitish, becominix more ashy on secondaries. 

 Tail-leathers whitt* except at the conccahMl bases and the ends, whieh have a transverse 

 (not obli(pie) tip of l)laekish : the outermost white to the end; the two central like the 

 l)ack. l>ill dark plumbeous; leirs blackish. In winter the maikin<,'s more or less 

 oV)scur'Ml ; the bill and leufs more yellowish. 



FeniuJe lacks the black markintifs, '"ich, however, are indicated obsolctcly as in other 

 Plecfrophanes ; there is . trace of eh- stnut on the wings, no streaks on the brea:it 

 Len.L'th, r)..')0: wini:, :•.<;<): tail, 'J..')0; bill. .40. 



IIai: Eastern slopes of Uocky ^^ounlain8, from Texas to Upper Mi.s.som"!. 



This s]iecies varies considerably in nutrkings, but is readily recognized 

 among otiuT r/rrfrojtJuf/ic^ in all stages by short hind toe, very stont bill, 

 and the transverse dark l)ar at the end of all tail-feathers excej^t the inner 

 and outer. 



Haiuts. Maccown's Lirk Bunting is yet another of the various s])ecies 

 of our birds whose history is very little known, and in regard to which the 

 most we are abl to state, at ]iresent, is that they appear in different })arts 

 of the interior ]»lains of the United States, between the Ilocky ^[ountains 

 :md the Missouri River and the lower tributar''^^ of the Mississippi, 

 extendin'f from New Mexic< and Texas northwa iiuing the breeding- 



