BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 259 



Peucaa arizonx Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. AIus., i, 1878, 127 (Fort Brown, Texas; 

 crit.); JSfom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 227.— Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 i, 1878, 127 (Fort Brown, Texas; habits; de.scr. eggs) .—Scott, Auk, ii, 1885, 

 226 (Santa Cruz Valley, Arizona). — American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Check List, 1886, no. 576.— Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, 121 

 (Tucson and Oracle, Arizona; habits; song). 



P.leucxa] arizcmie Brewer, Ibis, Apr., 1878, 205, in text (Fort Brown, Texas). 



Peucsea ssstivalis arizonse Codes, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 253. 



P.[eucsea] x-lstivalisl arizonx CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 374. 



[Peucxa xstivalis.'] Subsp. /3. Peucxa arizonx Shahpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 

 1888, 710 (Crittenden, Arizona). 



Coiurniculus mexicanus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, May, 1867, 

 474 (plains of Colima, s. w. Mexico; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Peucxa mexicana Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii. May 23, 1885, 98, 99 

 (syn. ; crit.). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 577. — 

 Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 207 (Fort Brown, Texas). 



P-leucxa} mexicana Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 428. 



Peucxa, sp. (?) Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 118 

 (Camp Grant, Arizona; descr. young). 



Peucxa xstivalis (not Fringilla aestivalis Lichtenstein) Shabpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 ■ Mus., xii, 1888, 709, part (Putla, Oaxaca, Mexico). 



AIMOPHILA BOTTERII SARTORII Ridgway. 

 HUATTJSOO SPARROW. 



Similar to JL. h. hotterii, but very much dax"ker, the ground color of the 

 upper parts soot}"" grayish or dark smoke gray, with the darker mark- 

 ings very heavy; under parts less buffy, the chest and sides varying 

 from pale smoky buflf to light drab-gray. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above brownish gray^ heavily streaked with 

 dull black, these black streaks broadest on the back, where more or 

 less edged with rusty brown (unless edges of feathers are worn off), nar- 

 rowest, and more suffused with brown on hindneck; edge of wing light 

 yellow, the lesser coverts tinged or suffused with the same; sides of 

 head (including broad superciliary stripe) dull brownish gray, relieved 

 by a narrow postocular streak of dusky brown; under parts dull whit- 

 ish, the chest pale brownish buffy, the sides and flanks more strongly 

 buffy (the flanks more or less streaked with dusky), the anal region 

 and under tail-coverts clear bufl'; sides of throat sometimes margined 

 with a narrow dusky submalar streak; maxilla dusky, broadly mar- 

 gined with pale grayish on tomium; mandible pale grayish (in dried 

 skins) ; legs and feet pale brown or brownish buffy. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 129.03-lry-.78 (138.18); wing, 6i.86- 

 58.93 (57.15); tail, 53.09-57.66 (56.13); exposed culmen, 12.70-13.97 

 (13.21); depth of bill at base, 7.62-8.13 (7.87); tarsus, 20.32-21.08 

 (20.83); middle toe, 14.73-16.00 (15.24).' 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 129.54-136.65 (132.84); wing, 56.64- 

 59.69 (58.42); tail, 54.10-57.91 (56.39); exposed culmen, 12.19-12.95 



' Seven specimens. 



