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cinnamon-rufous or rusty; tail dusky, witli lighter edgings; wings 

 dull black or dusky, with more or less distinct lighter edgings, the 

 middle and greater coverts tipped with white, forming two bands; 

 maxilla black, mandible light colored (pale grayish blue in life) ; iris 

 brown; legs and feet light colored (pale flesh-colored in life). 



Young. — Throat blackish laterally, broadly dull whitisli, flecked 

 with dusky, medially; chest dull whitish, streaked with dusky; pileum 

 and hindneck light grayish brown streaked with dusky; white supra- 

 loral spot, malai- stripe, and wing-bands more or less yellowish or 

 bufify; otherwise essentially like adults. 



Adult ma^.^.— Length (skins), 149.86-160.02 (163.67); wing, 65.28- 

 72.39 (70.10); tail, 74.17-82.55 (78.74); exposed culmen, 10.92-13.46 

 (12.70); tarsus, 21.34-22.86 (21.84); middle toe, 14.73-16.51 (15.24).' 



Achdt female.— LiQx\gth (skins), 142.24-152.40 (146.56); wing, 64.01- 

 68.07 (65.79); tail, 73.66-80.77 (76.20); exposed culmen, 11.43-12.96 

 (12.19); tarsus, 21.59-22.35 (21.59); middle toe, 14.73-15.75 (15.49).' 



Southern extremity of Mexican plateau, in States of Vera Cruz (Ori- 

 zaba), Puebla (Rio Frio, Tehuacan, Atlixco, Chietia, etc.), and Oaxaca 

 (San Carlos;' Mitla; Oaxaca; Cuicatlan). 



Zonotrichia mystacalis Haetlaub, Rev. ZooL, 1853, 2 (Rio Frio, Puebla, and City 



of Mexico; Bremen and Hamburg museums). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1856, 305 (a. Mexico); 1859, 379 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 



1862, 113 (Mexico).— Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 21 



(Tehuacan, Puebla). 

 [^Zonotrichia] mysiacalis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7385. — Sclater and 



Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 81. 

 P.loospiza} mystacalis Bidgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Bidgway's Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 589. 

 Amphispiza mystacalis Bidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 143. — Fehraki- 



Pekez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 143 (Chietia, Puebla). 

 A-lmphispiza} mystacalis Bidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 426. ' 



Hxmophila mystacalis Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, sig. 50, 



Aug., 1886, 398 (Tehuacan, Puebla; Oaxaca). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., xii, 1888, 728 ("San Juan del Rio, Mexico;" Puebla; Oaxaca). 



AIMOPHILA HUMERALIS Cabanis. 

 FERRARI-PEREZ'S SPARROW. 



Adults {sexes alike). ^ — Head and neck (except chin and throat) dusky 

 (becoming or approaching black anteriorly), relieved b}- a supraloral 

 spot and a malar stripe of white; a narrow stripe on each side of throat 

 and a broad band across chest black; rest of under parts chieflj^ white, 



' Fourteen specimens. 



^ Six specimens. 

 „ .IFemalea may possibly average slightly duller in color than males, but if the speci- 

 mens examined are correctly sexed there is decidedly no constant difference in this 

 respect. 



