370 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Arizona; south to Mazatlan . A. phceniceus 



sonoriensis EIDGW. Sonoran Red-wing. 1 



f 1 . Smaller, with larger bill, and upper parts darker. Male : 

 Length about 8.00-8.50, wing 4.50, tail 3.40-3.70 (3.55), 

 culmen 1.00-1.05 (1.03), depth of bill at base .40-.42 

 (.41), tarsus 1.10-1.20 (1.15). Female: Ground-color 

 above mixed grayish brown and rusty (the latter 

 chiefly on back and scapulars), the top of head 

 streaked with black and divided by a very distinct 

 lighter median stripe; back and scapulars broadly 

 streaked with black and buffy whitish ; length about 

 6.50-7.00, wing 3.60-3.80 (3.67), tail 2.70-2.90 (2.81), 

 culmen .75-.8S (.79), depth of bill at base .38-.40 (.39), 

 tarsus .95-1.05 (.99). Hab. Bahamas and southern 

 Florida (Miami, Key "West, etc.)... . A. phceniceus 

 bryanti EIDGW. Bahaman Red-wing. 2 



d 2 . Adult males with the middle wing-coverts more or less extensively 

 black terminally, the basal portion buff or ochraceous (but 

 usually concealed by lesser coverts) ; adult females with dusky 

 largely prevailing on lower parts (often nearly uniform dusky), 

 and with superciliary stripe not sharply defined (often very 

 indistinct). 



Male: Length about 9.00-10.00, wing 4.90-5.65 (5.17), tail 

 3.50-4.05 (3.83), culmen .81-1.02 (.89), depth of bill at 

 base .40-.49 (.46), tarsus 1.20-1.30 (1.23). Female: Above 

 nearly uniform brownish dusky, the top of head, back, 

 and scapulars more or less distinctly streaked with paler, 

 and the wing-feathers with narrow paler (sometimes 

 whitish) edgings ; lower parts brownish dusky, more or 

 less distinctly streaked (never conspicuously) with dull 

 brownish gray, the chin and throat pale buffy or pinkish, 

 the latter marked with triangular spots of dusky, in lon- 

 gitudinal series; length about 7.50-8.50, wing 4.05-4.35 

 (4.21), tail 2.90-3.25 (3.04), culmen .75-.7S (.76), depth of 

 bill at base .38, tarsus 1.05-1.10 (1.07). Eggs 1.00' X -69. 

 Hab. Valleys of California and western Oregon, and south 

 into Mexico. 



499. A. gubernator (WAGL.). Bicolored Blackbird. 



c*. Adult female entirely uniform deep black, including lesser wing-coverts. 

 (Adult male exactly like that of A. ph&niceus in color.) 



1 New subspecies ; twelve females and one male examined. 



2 New subspecies. The adult male is not appreciably different in plumage from either the common A. 

 phceniceus or the Cuban A. assimilis, but differs in proportions from both. The National Museum possesses, 

 besides Bahaman specimens, an adult male and a female from Miami, Florida (C. J. MAYNARD, collector), and 

 an adult female from Key West (" Albatross" collection). 



