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(10.4-1); depth of bill. 6.-Si]-7.11 (7.11); tarsu.s, 18.29-1S.54 (18.29); 

 middle top, 12.TU-1S.72 (13.21). ' 



Adaltfemal,:^\jQx^a^t\i (skins), 123.19-133.35 (130.05); wing, 59.44- 

 63.50 (61.21); tail, 61.72-67.31 (65.53); expcsed culmen, 9.65-10.67 

 (10.16); depth of bill at base, 6,35-7.11 (6.st)); tarsus, 18.29-19.81 

 (18.80); middle toe, 13.21-13.72 (13.46).^ 



Southern Arizona (north to Tucson and Camp Lowell) and south- 

 ward through Sonora (Alamos, Ortiz, Granados, etc.) to northern 

 Sinaloa (Culiacan). 



Peucien carpnlix CouES, Amer. Nat., vii, Jane, 1873, 322 (Tucson, Arizona; U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. ); Check List, 1873, no. 171 hh; 2d ed., 1882, no. 257.— Baird, 

 Brewer, ami Ridgway, Hi:^t. X. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 46, fig. 8; jii, 1874, 

 515.— Hen-shaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's 8urv., 1873 (1874), 159 (s. e. 

 Arizona); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 187.i, 291 (Camp Lowell, Arizona; 

 habits, etc.). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 229. — Bendirb, 

 Orn. and 061., vii, 1882, 121 (habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Brewster, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 195 (Tucson and Camp Lowell, Arizona) .— 

 Stephens, Auk, ii, 1885, 228 (a. Arizona) . — Americax Ornithologists' 

 "Union, Check List, 1886, no. 579.— Scott, Auk, iv, 1887, 203 (Santa Cata- 

 linaMts., a. Arizona, 3,000-4,500 ft.).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 

 1888, 715.— Allen, Bull. Am. Mu><. X. H., v, 1893, 39 (Granados, n. e. 

 Sonora). 



P. [euctTa] rtirpalis CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 375. — Ridgway, Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 430. 



Aimophila ciirpalix'RmGVi w , Auk, xvi, Jan., 1899, 81. — American Ornithologists' 

 Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 119. 



AIMOPHILA NOTOSTICTA (Sclater and Salvin). 

 OAXACA SPARROW. 



Very similar in coloration to ^ 1. rafe-'^cenii rufescens, but much smaller, 

 and bill entirely black; broad lateral crown-stripes darker (van dyke 

 brown instead of chestnut); black streaks oil back broader; tail hair 

 brown instead of chestnut-brown, and wings verj^ much less rufescent. 



Adults (.s'rt/v« ah'h'). — Bill whollj' black; pileum chiefi}' vandyke 

 brown; back grayish brown, broadly .streaked with black; wings mainly 

 gra3'isli brown, the tertials inclining to chestnut-brown on edges; tail 

 hair brown; sides of head and neck, including broad superciliaiy stripe 

 (becoming white anteriorly), brownish gray, this passing into a more 

 brownish hue on sides of breast; a distinct white orbital ring, sur- 

 rounded by dusky; a broad postocular streak of dark brown; malar 

 stripe, chin, throat, and abdomen dull buffy whitish; a blackish sub- 

 malar streak. 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 160.02; wing, 69.85; tail, 80.01; exposed 

 culmen, 12.45; depth of bill at base, 7.37; tarsus, 23.37; middle toe, 

 17.27; graduation of tail, 15.24.'' 



^ Six specimens. ^ One specimen. 



