4V4 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Admit fenude m spring and simnmer.— Similar to the male of corre- 

 sponding season, and not always distinguishable, but usually with the 

 chestnut crown-patch more restricted (rarely obsolete) and chestnut of 

 both crown-patch and upper tail-coverts lighter or less intense. 



Young, first j>fe?nffl^e.— Essentially like adults, but much clearer 

 white beneath; no trace of chestnut on crown; upper tail-coverts 

 ochraceous-buff instead of chestnut; middle and greater wing-coverts 

 tipped with whitish or pale buffy, producing two rather distinct bars. 



Adult mffl/e.— Length (skins), 91.4-102.9 (98.3);^ wing, 55.1-68.2 

 (56.9); tail, 41.1^13.9 (42.9); exposed culmen, 8.4-8.9 (8.4); tarsus, 

 16-16.5 (16.3).' 



Adult fe)nale.—\^Qx,g\h (skins), 91.9-95.2 (93.5);' wing, 51.6-52,8 

 (52.1); tail, 37.3-39.9 (38.6); exposed culmen, T.6-8.9 (8.4); tarsus, 

 15.5-15.7 (15.5).* 



Arizona, southwestern Utah (lower Santa Clara Valley), and south- 

 ward through Sonora and other States of western Mexico to Jalisco 

 (Bolafios; San tana). 



Helminthophaga luciic Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., July, 1862, 120 (FortMojave, 

 Arizona; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Amer. Nat., iii, 1869, 476, 479; Om. Cal, 

 1870, 84.— Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 178.— Coues, Ibis, 1866, 260 (Fort 

 Whipple, Arizona) ; Am. Nat., vi, 1872, 493 (Tucson, Arizona; descr. sup- 

 posed nest and eggs); Check List, 1873, no. 65; 2d ed. 1882, no. 104; Birds 

 Col. Val., 1878, 219.— Elliot, lUustr. New and Unfig. N. Am. Birds, i, 1869, 

 pi. 5.— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1873, 107 (descr. supposed nest 

 and eggs). — Baikd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 200, 

 pi. 11, fig. 9; iii, 1874, 504 (Tucson, Arizona, breeding). — Henshaw, Zool. 

 Exped. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 190 (Camp Lowell, Arizona).— Eidg way. 

 Ibis, 1876, 170; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 83. 



[Helminthophaga] Incise Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 94. 



HlelminthophagaJ luciie Ridgway, Ibis, 1876, 168 (diagnosis). 



IMniotilta} lucix Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 239, no. 3426.— Giebel, Thesaurus Om., 

 ii, 1875, 603. 



Helminlhophila luoiie Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, Jan., 1882, 54.— Beew- 

 STER, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, 1882, 82 (Cienega Station, etc;, "Arizona; hab- 

 its, nest and eggs, descr. young, etc. ) — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Hub., x, 

 1885, 248, 641. — ^American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 

 643.— Fisher, N. Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 117 (lower Santa Clara Valley, s. w. 

 Utah, breeding). 



HlelminthophUa'] luciie Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 294,— Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 490. 



Helminiophila luciie Nbhrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 188. 



' Length before skinning, 109.2-114.3 (111) ; extremes and average of twelve speci- 

 mens; see Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 84, 85. 



^ Five specimens. 



'Length before skinning, 104.1-114.3 (108.7); extremes and average of thirteen 

 specimens; see Brewster, as cited above. 



* Three specimens. 



