116 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(9.40); depth of bill at base, 7.11-7.37; tarsus, 12.19-13.31 (12.70); 

 middle toe, 9.65-10.41 (9.91).' 



Adult firiude.—Li&ngt]x (skin), 97.03; wing, 61.21; tail, 38.10; 

 exposed culmen, 9.40; tarsus, 12.70; middle toe, 9.91.^ 



Southwestern border of United States, from western Texas to central 

 California, and south into northwestern Mexico, in States of Chihua- 

 hua, Sonora, and Durango (Chacala); north, at least occasionally to 

 Colorado. 



This is scarcely a definite form, but is rather a series of specimens 

 connecting A. p. psaltria and A. ]). inexlcanus, hardly two examples 

 being exactlj^ alike, and the geographic range not very definite. The 

 name may be retained, however, as a convenient means of designating 

 the intergrading series in question. 



Chrysomitris inexicatia (not Carduelis mexicanus Swainson) Baied, Bep. Pacific 

 R. E. Surv., ix, 1858, 423, part (Copper Mines, Arizona) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859-, no. 315, part.— Coues, Ibis, 1865, 159, 164, in text (Fort Whipple, 

 Arizona). 



Chrysomitris (Pseudomitris) mexicanus Var. arizonx Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1866, 82, in synonymy (Fort Wingate, New Mexico, or Fort Whipple, 

 Arizona;' U. S.Nat. Mus.?). 



[Chrysomitris Pseudoviitris viexicamis.} [C. var. anzonx'] Comes, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1866, 82. 



Chrysomitris mexicana, var. arizonse Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, pi. 22, fig. 11. 



\_Chrysomitris mexicanus.'] Var. arizonx Baird, in Cooper's Orn. Cal.,1870, 170 

 (Arizona). 



Chrysomitris mexicana arizonx Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., 

 v,1879, 390 (Lomita,- Texas, May). 



[Chrysomitris psaltria.l Var. arizonse OouBS, Key N. Am. Birds, Oct., 1872, 132. 



Chrysomitris psaltria var. arizonie Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Dec, 1872, 454, 

 footnote. — Baied, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 476; 

 iii, 1874, 509 (30 m. n. of &n Diego, May 7, and near San Buenaventura, Cal- 

 ifornia, Jan. ) . 



Chrysomitris psaltria . . var. arizonx Coues, Check List, 1874, No. 151ci. — Hen- 

 SHAw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Survey, 1873 (1874), 109 (Gila-R., Arizona, 

 Sept.); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 245, pi. 4, fig. 1 (Gila R., Camp • 

 Grant, and Apache, Arizona; Santa Fe, New Mexico). 



Chrysomitris psaltria arizonie GoOBE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 313. 



[Chrysomitris psaltria'] b. arizonx Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 117 (synonymy). 



Astragalinus psaltria arizonse Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, April, 1880, 96; 

 Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 216.— Ridgway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 

 1880, 177, 216, 232; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. ISSo; Auk, xvi, 1899.— 

 American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 116. 



1 Eleven specimens. ' 



'^ One specimen. 



'Neither type specimen nor type locality were designated; four specimens are men- 

 tioned by National Museum catalogue numbers, namely, 37088, 37091, and 37092, 

 from Fort Wingate, New ilexico, and 39094, from Fort Whipple, Arizona, of which 

 only the last, apparently, is now in the National Museum collection. The form is 

 characterized, inferentially, on page 83. 



