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(66.4); tail, 75-81 (78.1); exposed culmen, 11.2-12.6 (11.8); tarsus, 

 20-21.5 (21); middle toe, 11.5-13 (12.2).' 



Adult female. — Occiput and hindneck brownish gray, passing 

 gradually into light wood brown or Isabella color on forehead; rest 

 of upper parts clearer gray (between slate-gray and smoke gray), the 

 middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with pale buff, forming two 

 rather distinct wing-bands; tail as on the male, but the black portions 

 duller, with outer web slate-gray; a broad supra-auricular stripe of 

 buff or ochraceous-buff, passing gradually over eye into the wood 

 brown or isabella color of forehead; lores dull buffy whitish; auricu- 

 lar region pale buffy grayish or dull buffy; malar region, chin, and 

 throat dull white, buffy white, or pale buff; chest and sides pale buff; 

 rest of under parts white or buffy white, the under tail-coverts some- 

 times tinged with pink; bill, legs, and feet as in adult male; length 

 (skins), 142-156 (148.7); wing, 62-64 (62.9); tail, 75-77 (75.7); exposed 

 culmeE, 11.2-12 (11.7); tarsus, 21-21.5 (21.2); middle toe, 11.2-12 

 (11.7).' 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult female but back, etc., clearer 

 gray, sides of pileum (sometimes forehead and part of auricular region 

 also) black, chest and median line of breast and abdomen more or less 

 tinged with pink, and under tail-coverts pink. 



Tres Marias Islands, western Mexico. 



GranaleUus francescse Baied, Review Am. Birds, April, 1865, 2,32 (Tres Marias 

 Islands, w. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Grayson, Proc. Boat. Soc. 

 N. H., xiv, 1871, 278 (habits).— Lawrence, Mem. Best. Soc. N. H., ii. 1874, 

 270.— Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 307, pi. 11 (crit.).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Avea, i, 1881, 160.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 

 370.— Nelson, N. Am. Fauna, no. 14, 1899, 56 (Maria Madre, Tres Marias; 

 habits; crit.). 



[Icima2 francescx Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 384, no. 5824. 



GRANATELLUS SALL.flEI SALL/EI Bonaparte. 

 SALLE'S BED-BREASTED CHAT. 



Adult male. — Upper parts plain deep bluish slate, the crown mai'g- 

 ined along each side by a broad but not sharply defined black line; 

 remiges and rectrices black, edged with slate color, the outermost rec- 

 trices with an indistinct wedge-shaped terminal spot of dark gray and 

 (except in worn plumage) margined terminally with white; a supra- 

 auricular stripe of white; loral, orbital, auricular and malar regions, 

 chin, and throat uniform slate-gray; chest, breast, abdomen, anal 

 region, and under tail-coverts pure vermilion red or geranium red; 

 sides of breast, sides, and outer portion of flanks slate-gray; inner por- 



^ Five specimens. ^ Four specimens. 



