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partly red; bill dull black; iris brownish red; ° legs and feet dull 

 black. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 350-404 (389); wing, 260-273 (267); 

 tail, 173-195 (182.4); culmen, 38.5-41 (39.7); tarsus, 19-21.5 (20.3); 

 outer anterior toe, 27.5-31.5 (29.2) .* 



Adult female.— Length (skins) , 360-390 (374); wing, 255-265 (261); 

 tail, 165-184 (177.2); culmen, 37-39 (38.4); tarsus, 19.5-22 (20.6); 

 outer anterior toe, 27-31.5 (28.7) . c 



Mountains of northern and middle Mexico (in pine belt) , in States 

 of Chihuahua (Pinos Altos; Bravo; Col6nia Pacheco; Colonia 

 Garcia; Jestis Maria; Chuichupa; near Guadalupe y Calvo), 

 Durango (Arroyo del Buey; San Andres; Ciudad Durango), Mexico 

 (Popocatepetl) , and Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Cofre de Perote; Moyoa- 

 pam); occasional in southern Arizona (Bonita Pass, Chiricahua 

 Mts.; Paradise). 



Macrocercus pachyrhynchus Swainson, PMloa. Mag., n. s., i, no. 6, June, 1827, 439 



(table land of Mexico; coll. Bullock Mus.). 

 S[ittace] pachyrhyncha Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 667, 733. — Baird, Brewer, 



and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 586, footnote. 

 Sittace pachyrhyncha Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, pi. 25. — Hartlatjb, Syst. Verz., 



1844, 86.— Finsch, Die Papag., i, 1867, 428. 

 Psittacus pachyrhynchus Kuster, Orn. Atlas, Papag., 1840, 94, pi. 73. 

 A[rd\ pachyrhyncha Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 412. 

 Ara pachyrhyncha Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., PBittacidse, 1859, 29. — Sclater, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 368 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 

 [Rhynchopsitta] pachyrhyncha Bonaparte, Bev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 149, Consp. 

 Psitt., p. 6; Naumannia, 1856 (Conspectus Psitt., no. 30). — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 111. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liver- 

 pool Mus., i, 1897, 10 (Mexico). 

 Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha Souance, Bev. et Mag. de Zool., 1856, 57; Icon. Perr, 

 1857, pi. 5. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 230, in text (Mexico). — 

 Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 66 ("Rio Grande, Texas"); Rep. 

 U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, no. 2, 1859, 5 ("Rio Grande, Texas"); Cat. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 64.— Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 562 

 (alpine zone, Vera Cruz). — Salvin, Ibis, 1871, 91 (range). — Ridgway, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880 (Cat. N. Am. Birds), 190; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 391; Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 593.— American ORNrrHOLOGiSTs' Union 

 Committee, Check List, 1886, 354 (hypothetical list, no. 16); 2d ed., 1895, 

 330; 3rd ed., 1910, 179; Auk, xviii, 1901, 300.— Chapman, Auk, v, 1888, 395 — 

 Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1889, 242, in text (western Sierra Madre of Mex- 

 ico).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 34 (Pacheco, n. Chihuahua).— 

 Lusk, Condor, ii, 1900, 129 (Chiricahua Mts., Arizona, June, 1900; flock). — 

 Miller (W. De W.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxii, 1906, 164 (Arroyo del Buey 

 and San Andreas, n. w. Durango). — Thayer, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 223 (Pacheco, 

 Colonia Pacheco, and Colonia Garcia, Chihuahua, breeding; descr. nest and 

 eggs).— Bergtold, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 425-428 (Sierra Madre of Chihuahua, 

 from Chuichupa southward; habits). — Smith (A. P.), Condor, ix, 1907, 104, 

 cut (Bonita Pass, Chiricahua Mts., Aug., 1904; "immense flock"). 



a W. De W. Miller, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxii, 164. 

 6 Ten specimens, from Chihuahua. 

 c Nine specimens from Chihuahua. 



