I'lilNOILLID.K — TllK l-'INCIIKS. I'!7 



cafions of that roj,Moii. Tlioy were almost always in or about the thick 

 clumps of l)uslu!S, several usually beiuv; in company. 



Dr. Kennerly, who met willitliem on a second trip, in June, 1855, nearlios 

 Nofiales, in Mexico, speaks of them as not very common in that region. He 

 found them ])referring the dense hushes in the valleys. When apjjroached, 

 they became very restless, llyiu,!:f from one busli to another, accompanying,' 

 their motions witii very jieculiar notes, which he does not describe. 



Dr. Coues found this .siiecies al)undantly distril)uted throughout the 

 warmer portions of New Mexico and Arizona, from the valley of the l!io 

 Grande to that of the ('oh)rado. He did not observe any at Fort Whijjple, 

 though they were fo\ind breeding some twenty-five miles to the southward. 

 He found them associating freely with Pipilo ahcrti, and inhabiting the same 

 regions. The two birds have very similar habits. 



Dr. Henry also sUites that this species is connnon in New Mexico both 

 sunnner and winter, and, so far as he has ob.served, dwelling almost entirely 

 among the n:ountains. It appeared to him very retiring in its habits, and 

 seemed to prefer the canons. He has seldom, if ever, oli.served it far I'rom 

 shady gorges, where, like its relative of the Kastern States, the Towhee 

 Bunting, it jjusses the greater part oi its time on the ground, and is gener- 

 ally accompanied by its congener, the Arctic Finch. When disturbed, it 

 seeks the thickest cover, though it is by no means shy or ditlicult to a])proacli. 

 Its nest .s usually constructed in the branches of a thick cedar or dwarf oak, 

 and he has never known it to produce more than one brood in a season. 



Dr. Cooper states that these birds are very abundant in Southern Arizona, 

 that their habits closely resemlde those of P. ahcrti, and that their eggs are 

 similar to those of I'ipilo J'lisrus. 



Fipilo fuscus, \ar. albigula, Wxinu. 



CAPE TOWHEE. 



Pipilo alliiijiiln, Baoii), P. A. N. S. Nov. 18.")9, 30,-) (Capp St. Liions). — Ku.iot, Illust. 

 Am. nii'd.s, I, 111. .\v (" = /'. mtsokiiciis"). — VaovKli, Oni. <.'iil. 1, 248. 



Sp. Ciiau. Similar to vnr. inesohuci.^, haviiifr, like it, a distinctly rufous crown and 

 white alidonien. Dill'crin?, however, in the following respects: The pale oehraeeous 

 gular area is morn .sharply defined, the ImlF lieinp; eonlini.-d within the cneircling series 

 of dusky spots ; the liutV is pali'st posteriorly, instead of direetly tlie opposite. The 

 rufous of the erissal region is more restricted, only I iiigeing the anal region instead of 

 mvading the lower part of the abdomen, the white beneath also k shifted farther back, 

 covering the abdomen alone, instead of the breast, the whole jngulum being distinctly 

 ashy, like the sides. Wing, 3.80 ; tail, 4.2'). 



Hab. Cape St. Lucius. 



A very large series of specimens from Cape St. Lucas agree in possession 

 of the characters pointed out above, distinguishing them from mcsoleucus, 

 to which race the ])resent one is most nearly related. 



