PIPILO. 439 
Adult male: Similar to same sex of P. macronyx, but with shorter 
tail, rufous of sides, etc., paler and more ochraceous, and differ- 
ing in coloration of the head, as above; wing 3.60, tail 3.90, cul- 
men .62, tarsus 1.15. Hab. Southern Mexico (Puebla). 
\ * P. complexus Ripew. Complex Towhee.! 
a. Throat and chest neither black nor brown, abruptly contrasted with color of 
breast, which is never white; sides and flanks not rufous or rusty. 
v. Wings and tail olive-green ; edge of wing, under wing-coverts, and axillars 
(72) bright yellow; chest and sides plain ash-gray. (Oreospiza Ripew.) 
Adult (sexes alike): Crown and occiput uniform rufous; forehead and 
sides of head deep ash-gray, the former with a broad white streak 
along each side; a white malar streak, bordered below by a dusky 
line along each side of throat, passing posteriorly into ash of chest ; 
chin and throat, abruptly, white. Young: Above olive-grayish, 
streaked with dusky; lower parts dingy whitish, the chest, etc. 
streaked with dusky. Length 7.00-7.85, wing 3.00-3.30, tail 3.50- 
3.90. Eggs .84 x .65, whitish, speckled or sprinkled with reddish 
brown (averaging rather paler, with finer speckling, than egg of P. 
erythrophthalmus, etc.). Hab. Rocky Mountain district, north to 
eastern Oregon, Idaho, Montana, etc., west to Sierra Nevada, south 
into Mexico..... 590. P. chlorurus (Towns.). Green-tailed Towhee. 
. Wings and tail grayish brown; edge of wing white or pale cinnamon-buffy, 
under wing-coverts and axillars pale cinnamon or brownish gray. Eggs 
white, greenish white, bluish white, or pale greenish blue, speckled or 
* spotted, chiefly round larger end, with dark brown and black, often with 
short “ pen-lines” of the latter color. 
c. Lores and chin whitish or buffy ; lower throat or chest, or both, flecked 
with dusky. 
d@, Throat white, crossed, at about the middle, by a band of ochra- 
ceous or buff, this occupying the posterior half, or more, of 
malar region. 
Above uniform grayish brown, the middle wing-coverts tipped, 
more or less distinctly, with white; chest, breast, and belly 
white, the first flecked with grayish, and along posterior 
border of white throat-patch spotted with dusky, some- 
times forming a nearly continuous dusky line; sides of 
breast and sides gray or brownish gray, flanks and under 
tail-coverts ochraceous; length about 7.00, wing 3.25-3.30, 
tail 3.60-3.70. Hab. Southern Mexico (Oaxaca, Puebla, 
etc.). 
P, rutilus Licut. Sclater’s Towhee.? 
d?, Throat (also chin and malar region) buffy, ochraceous, or tawny. 
e. Paler, with throat, etc., buffy, sides ashy, middle of belly dis- 
1 Pipilo complexus Rivew., Auk, iii. July, 1886, 332. 
2 Pipilo rutilus Licut., Preis-Verz. 1830, No. 71. (P. albicolite Scx., P. Z. S. 1858, 304.) 
