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row and concealed, or obsolete; white of under parts stronglj^ buffy, 

 the sides and flanks strongly tinged with buffy brown; white wing- 

 bands tinged with brownish buff. 



Young female in first autumn mid winter. — Similar to the supposed 

 adult female of corresponding season, but still duller colored; darker 

 streaks on forehead and crown very indistinct, those on back obsolete; 

 yellow of throat, etc. , duller, and streaks on sides and flanks obsolete. 



Young male, first plumage. — Above plain grayish hair brown or 

 drab-gray, the feathers ash gray beneath the surface; sides of head 

 similar but rather paler; malar region, chin, and throat pale brownish 

 gray, minutely and sparsely flecked with darker, the chest similar, but 

 with rather large roundish spots of dusky; rest of under parts dull 

 white streaked or spotted with dusky gray medially, dull grayish 

 laterally. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 110-117 (113.2); wing, 64^66 (66.1); 

 tail, 47-50 (48.4); exposed culmen, 9-10 (9.6); tarsus, 17-18 (17.2); 

 middle toe, 10-12 (10.6).' 



Adult female.— L&ngth (skins), 113-115 (114); wing, 60-62 (61); tail, 

 46^7 (46.7); exposed culmen, 10; tarsus, 17; middle toe, 9-12 (10.7).^ 



Southwestern United States and adjacent parts of northwestern 

 Mexico; northward through mountains of New Mexico and Arizona 

 to southern Colorado (San Juan County) ; breeding southward to Chi- 

 huahua (Colonia Grarcia) and Sonora (30 miles south of Nogales) ; dur- 

 ing migration south to Tepic (Santa Teresa, August 11) and Jalisco 

 (Bolaiios, September 17); casual in southern California (Santa Paula, 

 Ventura County, one specimen. May 3). 



Dendraiea gracix Baikd, Review Am. Birds, Apr., 1865, 210 (Fort Whipple, Ari- 

 zona; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.; ex "Coues MSS.").— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 

 563 (Fort Whipple). — Baird, Bbewek, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 

 1874, 243, pi. 14, fig. 10.— Hbnshaw, Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 197 

 (Inscription Rock, New Mexico; White Mts. and Camp Apache, Arizona). — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 664. — Evbrmann, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 185 (Santa Paula, Ventura Co., California, 1 spec, May 3, 

 1881). — Scott, Auk, v, 1888, 34 (Santa Catalina Mta., Arizona, breeding). — 

 Meaens, Auk, vii, 1890, 261 (Clarks Valley, Arizona, in pine belt) . — Ladd, 

 Auk, viii, 1891, 315 (Yavapai Co., Arizona; descr. nest and eggs). — Jouy, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 777 (32 miles s. of Nogales, Sonora, June 

 17). — Neheling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 224. — Mitchell, Auk, xv, 

 1898, 310 (San Miguel Co., New Mexico, breeding at 8,500 ft.). 



I)\_endroica\ gracix Ridqway, Man. N. Am Birds, 1887, 506. 



[Dendroica graeiie] var. gracix Ridgway, Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 608. — Baird, 

 Beewek, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 220, 244. 



Dendraeca gracix Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xviii, 1866, 67 (Fort Whipple); 

 Check List, 1873, no. 87; 2d ed., 1882, no. 128; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 292 

 (excl. syn. under "b. decora"). — (?) Lawrence, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 

 1876, 16 (Zapotitlan, Oaxaca, Jan.) — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 V, 1880, 72 (Chiricahua Mta., Arizona).— Drew, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 



^ Seven specimens. ^ Four specimens. 



