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often throwing off indistinct darker bars across the lighter colored 

 lateral portions. A broad and sharply defined superciliary stripe of 

 buffy or dull whitish; immediately beneath this a broad and conspicu- 

 ous band of black, involving the lores and suborbital and auricular 

 regions, the lower posterior portion of the last streaked with whitish; 

 malar region, chin, upper throat, and middle of belly dull whitish, 

 shading into light brownish gray on other under parts; under tail- 

 coverts (sometimes flanks, also) streaked with dusky. Bill black. 



loim^.— Essentially like adults, but under parts dull buffy whitish, 

 with the lower throat, upper chest, and sides of" chest narrowly streaked 

 with dusky. 



Adtdt ;»«/«.— Length (skins), 154.94-171.45 (162.05); wing, 75.69- 

 81.79 (78.74); tail, 67.31-73.15 (70.36); exposed culmen, 14.73-15.49 

 (15.24); depth of bill at base, 8.89-10.16 (9.65); tarsus, 23.37-27.94 

 (25.65); middle toe, 16.51-20.32 (18.80).' 



Adult female.— l^Qu^ih. (skins), 144.78-160.02 (154.69); wing, 73.66- 

 80.77 (75.95); tail,' 63.50-70.61 (67.31); exposed culmen, 13.21-15.49 

 (14.73); depth of bill at base, 9.65-10.16 (9.91); tarsus, 24.89-27.43 

 (26.91); middle toe, 17.53-19.81 (18.54).' 



Mexican plateau, from States of Vera Cruz (Perote), Puebla, Hidal- 

 go, Tlaxcala, Morelos, Mexico, Michoacan, and northern Jalisco to 

 northern Chihuahua (Colonia Garcia, Guachochi, Guadalupe y Calvo. 

 etc.) and northeastern Sonora (Bavispe River andPacheco). 



Aimophila superciliosa Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 287; Anim. in ilenag., 

 18?8, 314 (Mexico; coll. W. Swainson).— Sumicheast, Mem. Bost. Soc, N. H., 

 i, 1869,551 (upper alpine reg. Vera Cruz, 3,000-4,000 meters). — Stone, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 215 (Chalchicomula, Vera Cruz).— Allex, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N.H.,v, 1898, 39 (Bavispe R. and Pacheco, n.e. Sonora). — Cox, 

 Auk, xii, 1895, 357 (Mount Orizaba, up to 11,000 ft.).— Chapman, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., X, 1898, 41 (Las Vigas, Vera Cruz, 8,000 ft. ; habits). 



A.limopMla] swpfraKosa Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850,486. 



[HiemophUa] superciliosa Sa^ATER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 33. 



Hseviophila superciliosa S.vlvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, .395, 

 pi. 30, fig. 1 (Ciudad, Durango); Ibis, 1889, 239 (environs of Mexic'o; near 

 Pueblo; Popocatepetl, 10,000-12,000 ft.; Cofre de Perote, Vera Cruz; San 

 Luis Potosi; Aguas Calientes; Durango).— Shahpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xii, 1888, 722. 



lEmbernagra} superciliosa Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 91, no. 7344. 



Hmmophila rufescens (not Pipilo rufescens Swainson) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 

 1862, 118, part. 



Genus AIMOPHILA Swainson. 



AimophilaSw AiiisoTfi, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 287. (Type, Pipi7oni/i?scere.sSwainson.) 

 Haemophila (emendation) Cabanis, Mus. Hein, i, Apr., 1851, 132. 

 Hxmophila (emendation) Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Sbc. Lond., 1858, 98. 

 Peucsea^ Audubon, Synopsis Birds N.Am., 1839, 112. (Type, Fringilla bachmanii 

 Audubon.) 



'Ten specimens. 



""Name from TtsvKi), a pine." 



