1880. | BREWSTER, Descriptions of New Birds. 95 
coarsely spotted that the black of their centres exceeds in extent the 
bluish ashy on their edges and tips, the black of the breast patch wholly 
unmixed with lighter color. Female with the general coloring, especially 
on the head, darker than in female audubonz; the dark markings of the 
breast and back coarser and more numerous; the entire pileum, inclu- 
ding the yellow crown patch, spotted finely but thickly with slaty black. 
3d ad. (No. 14,381, collection of W. Brewster, Pinos Altos, Chihuahua. 
Mexico, June 5, 1888; M. Abbott Frazar). Forehead, sides of crown, 
sides of head generally, and fore back black, the feathers of the forehead 
and superciliary line from the nostrils to the occiput, as well as the inter- 
scapulars, edged with bluish ashy, so narrow and faint on the forehead 
and superciliary line as to be discernible only on the closest inspection; 
a portion of both eyelids white: hind back, nape, and sides of neck dull 
bluish ash, everywhere spotted or streaked with black; rump pale lemon 
yellow; middle of crown, chin, throat, and a patch on each side of the 
breast gamboge yellow; a patch of black unmixed with any lighter color 
occupies the remainder of the breast, extending backward from its point 
of junction with the yellow of the throat.go of an inch in the middle and 
1.50 on the sides; middle of abdomen, crissum, under tail-coverts, and 
flanks ashy white, the flanks streaked with black; wings as in audubont, 
tail similar to that of azdubonz but with the white more restricted. Length,* 
5-753; extent,* 9.62; wing, 3.12; tail, 2.34 inches. 
2 ad. (No. 14,382, collection W. Brewster, Pinos Altos, Chihuahua, 
Mexico, June 5, 1888; M. Abbott Frazar). Above dull ashy tinged with 
hair-brown on the pileum, nape, and back. Interscapulars with large, 
central black spots varying in shape from broad lanceolate to ovate; hind 
back similarly but less coarsely marked; nape immaculate; entire pileum, 
including a central yellow crown patch, sharply but rather finely streaked 
and spotted with dark slaty; wings and tail marked and colored as in female 
audubout; ruinp chrome yellow; beneath ashy white, the throat (but not 
the chin or jugulum) and a small patch on either side of the breast pale 
canary yellow, the flank tinged with wood-brown; entire breast spotted 
coarsely with black, the spots occupying the centre of the feathers near 
their tips, and varying in shape from cordate to broad ovate. Length, 
5-753; extent, 9.50; wing, 3.10; tail, 2.35 inches. 
So juv. first plumage (No. 14,383, collection W. Brewster, Pinos Altos, 
Chihuahua, Mexico, July 13, 1888; M. Abbott Frazar). Above broccoli- 
brown variegated with grayish, the feathers everywhere with broad central 
stripes of dull black; sides of head plain hair-brown; tail as in adult male; 
exposed surface of folded wing uniform with back, the concealed (inner) 
webs of the quills clove-brown, the coverts dark slaty, the outer edges of 
the greater coverts, and both webs of the middle coverts tipped and 
edged with rusty white, forming two conspicuous but widely separated 
bars; beneath ashy white, tinged faintly with buffy, the entire plumage, 
*Measurements of fresh specimen by Mr. Frazar. 
