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Tmmg in first autumn and lointer.^ — Similar to the duller colored 

 adults, but much duller, the red of throat, etc. , paler, inclining to flesh 

 color, white of under parts and nuchal patch tinged with buff or salmon 

 color, and gray of upper parts more brownish. 



Tmng, first plumage. — Upper parts, including entire pileum, plain 

 sooty brown, the pileum and hindneck sometimes inclining to prouts 

 brown or raw umber; rump white; upper tail-coverts brownish gray 

 with paler tips; wings grayish dusky with paler grayish edgings, the 

 middle and greater coverts tipped with dull buff' or pale brownish 

 buffy, forming two more or less distinct bands; tail as in adults; sides 

 of head like pileum; chin, throat, and chest plain light buffy grayish 

 brown or broccoli brown, the sides of neck similar but more buffy; 

 rest of under parts dull white, shaded on sides (especially sides of 

 breast) with pale brownish gray or grayish brown. 



Higher mountains of southern Arizona (Mount Graham, Catalina 

 Mountains, Huachuca Mountains, etc.) and New Mexico (Fort Bay- 

 ard) and southward over more elevated parts of Mexico to highlands 

 of Guatemala (Volcan de Fuego; Totonicapam). 



Muscicapa rubrifrons Gieaud, Sixteen Species Texan Birds, 1841, folio 27, pi. 7, 

 fig. 1 ("Texas").— ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1855, 66 (referred to 

 genus Cardellina). 



Setophaga rubrifrons Baikd, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 329 

 ("Texas"). 



Cardellina rubrifrons Sclatbe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 66, in text; 1858, 299 

 (La Parada, Oaxaca); 1859, 374 (Cinco Senores, Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 

 1862, 37 (s. Mexico).— Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Survey, ix, 1858, 306 

 (synonymy); Review Am. Birds, 1865, 264 (Mexico; Totonicapam, Guate- 

 mala). — Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 192 (Volcan de Fuego and Totonicapam, Guate- 

 mala); 1874, 99 (do.).— Hbnshaw, Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 211 

 (Mount Graham and mountains near Apache, Arizona; breeding habits). — 

 CouEs, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 331; Check List, 2ded., 1882, no. 150.— Allen, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 89.— Beewstbe, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 

 68 (Fort Bayard, New Mexico, July 16). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 131. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 162. — 

 Shaepb, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 408.— Scott, Auk, ii, 1885, 353 

 (Pima Co., Arizona); v, 1888, 36 (Catalina Mts., Arizona). — Ameeioan 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 690. — Peicb, Auk, v, 1888, 

 385 (Huachuca Mts., Arizona; breeding habits).— Nbhrling, Our Native 

 Birds, etc., i, 1893, 280, pi. 32, fig. 2. 



[CardeUina] rubrifrons Sclatee and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 11. 



C[ardellina] rubrifrons Ooues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 314.— Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 531. 



BasUeuterus rubrifrons Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 363 (Jalapa, Vera 

 Cruz). 



Cardellina amicla Du Bus, Esq. Orn., 1850, pi. 25. 



[Cardellina'] aTOcJa Bonapaetb, Oonsp. Av., i, 1850, 312. 



[Setophaga'] amida Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 243, no. 3531. 



' This plumage apparently retained during the second year. 

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