566 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



AdMlt male in aidumn and wmifer.— Similar to the spring and sum- 

 mer plumage, but feathers of black throat-patch narrowly margined 

 with white or pale yellowish. 



Young male in first autumn and winter. — Similar to the adult male 

 of corresponding season, but pileum, hindneck, back, scapulars, and 

 rump streaked with olive-green and black; upper tail-coverts margined 

 with olive-green and gray; general color of wings and tail duller black, 

 and white tips of middle wing-coverts with a narrow shaft-streak of 



black. 



Adult female in sjpring and swrnmer.— Pileum, hindneck, back, scap- 

 ulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts olive-green, more or less distinctly 

 streaked with black; chin and more or less of throat yellow,^ the lower 

 throat whitish or pale yellow, more or less blotched with black, the 

 upper chest sometimes similar, usually with more black, occasionally 

 uniform black; otherwise similar to the male, but general color of 

 wings and tail grayish dusky instead of black, white wing-bands nar- 

 rower (that across middle coverts with blackish shaft-streaks), and 

 black streaks on sides and flanks narrower. 



Ymmg female in first autumn and winter. — Similar to the adult 

 female i)ut pileum, hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts plain olive-green, or with very indistinct narrow streaks of 

 dusky on pileum and back; throat and chest pale grayish (the feathers 

 dusky beneath surface), the former tinged with yellow anteriorly; sides 

 and flanks indistinctly streaked with dusky. 



Young, first plumage.^ — Pileum, hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts plain grayish brown or brownish gray; sides of head, 

 chin, throat, chest, and sides pale brownish gray; rest of under part 

 white, the breast very indistinctly streaked with pale gray; wings and 

 tail essentially as in adults, but middle coverts with a mesial wedge- 

 shaped mark of dusky. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 117-123 (120); wing, 62.2-65.6 (64); 

 tail, 51.8-54.6 (53.1); exposed culmen, 9.2-10.2 (9.8); tarsus, 17.4-18.6 

 (18.4); middle toe, 10.^11.2 (10.8)." 



Adult f em-ale.— hewgih (skins), 116-125 (120); wing, 58-61.6 (60.4); 

 tail, 47.6-52.2(50.8); exposed culmen, 9.6-10.6 (10); tarsus, 17.6-18.8 

 (18.4); middle toe, 10.2-11 (10.5).' 



Western, central, and southern Texas (north to Tom Green, Concho, 

 and Bosque counties, east to Comal, Bexar, and Medina counties), and 

 southward through eastern Mexico to highlands of Guatemala (Tactic, 

 Vera Paz). Southern limits of breeding range unknown. 



Dendrceca chrysoparia Sclatee and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 298 

 (Tactic, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman).— Sa;lvin and 



^ More rarely the chin and throat are black, but with the feathers more or less 

 broadly tipped with pale yellowish or white. 

 " Sex undetermined. ' Five specimens. 



