PIPILO. 435 
ish fulvous; under tail-coverts pale buff; length 6.00-6.75, wing 2.60- 
2.75, tail 2.50-2.70, tarsus .90-.95. West in low bushes, composed of dried 
twigs, straws, etc. the top partially or completely domed. Eggs 2-4, 
‘89 X .64, plain pure white. Hab. Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas, 
and south ward...........c.600. 586. A. rufivirgata Lawr. Texas Sparrow. 
6’. Bill stouter, its depth at base .28-.33, length of upper mandible from nostril 
to tip .35-.40; flanks deep drab or raw umber-brown ; lower tail-coverts 
deep fulvous-buff; wing 2.55-2.75, tail 2.30-2.70, tarsus .85-.90. Hab. 
Southern Mexico. 
A. rufivirgata crassirostris BarrD. Cordova Sparrow.! 
a’, Upper mandible dark brown or brownish black; legs and feet deep brown; 
crown-stripes sharply defined, black anteriorly, mixed chestnut and black 
posteriorly, the broad median stripe clear ash-gray throughout. 
Bill slender, and posterior lower parts pale, as in EZ. rufivirgata; depth of 
bill at base .26-.28, length from nostril .35-.40, wing 2.50-2.68, tail 2.60- 
2.80, tarsus .85-.95. Hab. Yucatan (Merida). 
A. rufivirgata verticalis Ripaw. Striped-crowned Sparrow.? 
Genus PIPILO Vieitor. (Page 384, pl. CXL, figs. 1, 3.) 
Species. 
(West on ground, in bushy places, in bushes, brambles, vines, or small trees. 
Higgs 3-5, more or less spotted.) 
a’. Throat and chest black or brownish, in abrupt contrast with white of breast 
and belly; sides and flanks rufous or rusty. ygs white, pinkish white, or 
dilute cinnamon or vinaceous, thickly speckled or sprinkled with reddish 
brown. 
b'. Wings and tail black or brownish, like chest, etc. 
c’. Wing-coverts and scapulars without white markings. (Adult male: 
Head, neck, chest, and upper parts uniform black ; basal portion 
of quills, and edge of outer web near middle, white, the twa 
sometimes confluent; a large white patch at tip of inner webs 
of three or four outer tail-feathers. Adult female: Similar to 
male, but black everywhere replaced by umber-brown. Young: 
Wings and tail much as in adult; head, neck, back, and chest dull 
fulvous, streaked with blackish.) 
a’. Larger, with larger white markings on quills and tail-feathers ; 
iris of adult male bright carmine-red; length 7.50-8.75, wing 
3.30-3.75 (3.50), tail 3.55-4.10 (3.84), white space on outer tail- 
feather 1.30-1.60 long. ggs 94.71. Hab. Eastern United 
1 Embernagra rufivirgata, B. eraseirostris Ripaw., Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus. i. Dec. 17, 1878, 248, 249 (ea “ EB. 
rufivirgata var. erassinostris BAIRD, MS.’’). 
2 Embernagra rufwvirgata, y. verticalis Ripaw., Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus. i. Dec. 17, 1878, 248, 249, 
