PASSERES— FRINGILLIDAE— P. MACULATD8 VAR. MEGALONYX. 303 



Cardinalis virginiamts var. igneus, Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 151. — Bd., Brew., & 

 Ridg., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 103, pi. xxx, f. 10.— Coues, Birds Northwest, 

 1874, 172. 



Cardinalis virginianus, Bd., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pr. ii, 1859, Birds, 17. 



Two specimens of this bird from Southern Arizona, collected the past 

 season, are quite typical of this race. It apparently was not uncommon. 

 A single individual was likewise obtained in Arizona by Mr. Bischoff. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



451 

 45& 



S ad. 

 $ ad. 

 ^jun. 



Arizona 



Nov. 30, 1871 

 Aug. 21, 1S74 

 Aug. 22, 1S74 



F. Bischoff 











H. W. Henshaw 



do 



4.0S 

 3- 6 3 







5- 13 



4.68 







0. S2 

 o-75 



1.0S 

 1.05 



do 





PIPILO MACULATUS, Swains., var. MEGALONYX, Bd. 



Long-spurred Towhee. 



Pipilo megalonyx, Newb., P. E. R. Hep., vi, 1857, 89. — Bd., Birds X. A., 1858, 515, pi. 

 73. — Kbnneely, P. R, R. Rep., Whipple's Route, x, 1859, 30. — Heerm., P. 

 R. R. Rep., x,pt.iv,1859,51.— XANTUS, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.,1859, 192 

 (FortTejou, Cal.).— Bd., U. S. &Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 17.— 

 Coues, Prou. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18G0, 89 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.).— 

 Cooper, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 242.— Merriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 

 6S4 (Ogden, Utah). 



Pipilo maculatus var. megalonyx, Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 152. — Bd., Brew., & 

 Ridg., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 113. — Yarrow & Henshaw, Rep. Urn. 

 Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1S74, 15. — Henshaw, An. Lye. Nat, Hist., 

 N. Y., xi, 1S74, 6.— Id., An. List Birds Utah, 1S72, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 45.— Id., Rep. Oru. Specs., 1873, Wheelei's Exped., 1874, 81, 120.— 

 Coues, Birds Northwest, 1S74, 175. 



Pipilo erythrophlhalmus var. megalonyx, Allen, Bui. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1872, 178 

 (Colorado; Utah). — Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 63. 



Pipilo arctmis, Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 107 (New Mexico). 



This long spurred variety of the Towhee Bunting replaces, in the 

 Middle Region, the var. ardicus of the Missouri Region ; this, in turn, 

 giving place, in the East, to the common Black Pipilo (erythropMhalmus). 

 Little can be said of the habits of this bird in the West which will serve to 

 distinguish it from its eastern congener. It is a common bird everywhere 

 below 7,500 feet, and has the same peculiar way of skulking in the brush and 

 dense thickets, scratching among the leaves, and finding its food chiefly on 



