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91.95 (89.66); tail, 91.69-99.06 (95.25); exposed culmen, 15.24-15.49 

 (15.36); depth of bill at base, 10.16-10.92 (10.67); tarsus, 30.48-32. Y7 

 (31.50); middle toe, 19.81^20.83 (20.32).^ 



Adult female.— Iiength (skin), 193.04; wing, 83.31; tail, 97.79; 

 exposed culmen, 16.26; depth of bill at base, 10.16; tarsus, 29.72; 

 middle toe, 19.05.' 



Southwestern portion of Mexican plateau, in State of Michoacan 

 (Patzcuaro, 15 miles south of Lake Patzcuaro, Nahuatzin, etc.). 



Viamieospiza nigreseens Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 6th ser., i, July, 1889, 381 



(Patzcuaro, Michoacan, s. w. Mexico; coll. Salvin and Godman). 

 Chameeospiza torquata (not Pipilo torquatus Du Bus) Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1890, 218 (15 m. s. of Patzcuaro, Michoacan).' 



PIPILO MACRONYX MACRONYX Swainson. 

 SWAINSON'S TOWHEE. 



Similar to P. macxdctm vuiculatics, but decidedly larger, with pro- 

 portionally larger and stouter feet and much larger, blunter claws; 

 general color of upper parts olive-green instead of olive-brown or olive- 

 grayish, with the lighter markings (including tail-spots) more or less 

 yellow (usually distinctly' pale yellow); edge of wing canary yellow. 



A(kdt male.—h&ngih (skins), 206.76-223.77 (215.90); wing, 88.90- 

 93.98(91.69); tail, 104.14-111.00(107.19); exposed culmen, 15.24-16.51 

 (15.75); tarsus, 30.73-32.26 (31.50); middle toe, 20.83-22.35 (21.59); 

 hind claw, 13.21-13.97 (13.72); white spot on outer tail feather, 25.40- 

 33.02 (28.96).* 



Adnlt female.— hQwgth. (skins), 203.20-215.39 (208.79); wing, 86.61- 

 90.68 (88.14); tail, 95.25-104.65 (100.08); exposed culmen, 13.97-16.49 

 (14.99); tarsus, 29.97-31.75 (30.48); middle toe, 19.81-21.59 (20.57); 

 hind claw, 11.43-13.46 (12.95); white spot on outer tail feather (two 

 specimens only), 23.37-24.64 (23.88)." 



Mountains bordering the valley of Mexico, in States of Mexico (City 

 of Mexico, Temascal tepee, Mount Popocatapetl, Amacameca, etc.), 

 Puebla (Tezuitlan; Tochimulco), Hidalgo (Real del Monte), and More- 

 los (Huitzilac; Tetela del Volcan). 



Pipilo macronyx Swaixsox, Philos. Mag., new ser., i, 1827, 434, part (Real del 

 Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico; coll. W. Swainson)." — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1869, 361 (Valley of Mexico).— Baird, Brewer, and 

 RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 105, footnote (City of Mexico). — 



• Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 234 ("Mexico").— Salvin and God;,iax, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 406, part (Real del Monte; Temascal tepee; 

 Tezuitlan, Puebla). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. , xii, 1888, 751 (near City 

 of Mexico). 



' Four specimens. * Five specimens. 



^ Two specimens. ^ Six specimens. 



"Specimens examined by me. "Type now in the Cambridge (England) Museum. 



