410 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Pipillo macronyx Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 1838, 347, part. 



P.[ipilo'] macronyx Gkay, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 360. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 



1850, 487.— RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 438. 

 \_Pipilo'] macronyx Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 92, no. 7360.— Sclater and Salvin, 



Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 33. 

 Pipilo complexvs Ridgway, Auk, iii, July, 1886, 332 (Tezuitlan, Puebla; coll. 



Com. Geog. Expl. Mexico); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1886, 147 (do.). 

 P. \_ipilo] complexus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 489; 



PIPILO MACRONYX VIRESCENS (Hartlaub). 

 HARTLATJB'S TOWHEE. 



Similar to P. m. macronyx but back and scapulars without yellowish 

 or yellowish white streaks (the dusky ones also sometimes absent, the 

 color being then uniform olive-green) ; wing-coverts much less distinctly 

 (sometimes not at all) tipped with yellowish or yellowish white; outer- 

 most rectrices with yellowish or whitish terminal spotsj if present, much 

 less sharply defined (obsolete in typical examples), and color and sides 

 and iianks usually much duller cinnamon-rufous. 



Adult mafe.— Length (skins), 200.15-214.12 (209.30); wing, 86.36- 

 95.25 (91.69); tail, 98.55-109.22(103.63); exposed culmen, 13.97-15.75 

 (14.99); tarsus, 29.97-33.78 (31.50); middle toe, 20.32-23.37 (21.34); 

 hind claw, 12.19-13.46 (12.70).' 



Mountains along southern border of Mexican plateau, from Volcan 

 de Toluca (north slope), Salazar, etc., in State of Mexico to State of 

 Oaxaca. 



Pipilo macronyx Swainson, Philos. Mag., new ser., i, 1827, 434, part (specimen 



from Tomascaltepec). — Salvin andGoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 



406, part (Oaxaca). 

 Pipillo macronyx Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 1838, 347, part. 

 Pipilo virescens Hartlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., xi. May, 1863, 228 (Mexico; Berlin 



Mus.).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 752 (s. Mexico; excl. syn. 



Pipilo complexus Ridgway). 

 [Pipilol virescens Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 92, no. 7361. 

 Pipilo chlorosoma Baibd, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway' s Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 



1874, 105, footnote (Oaxaca; U. S. Nat. Mus. ). 

 P. [ipilo] chlorosoma Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 438. 



PIPILO MACULATUS MACULATUS Swainson. 

 MEXICAN SPOTTED TOWHEE. 



Adult wiffl^e.— Head, neck, and chest black, the throat sometimes 

 with more or less of a white spot, and, very rarely, the occiput streaked 

 with rufous; upper parts grayish olive-brown or brownish olive, the 

 back and scapulars streaked with black and white (the latter on the 

 exterior edges of the feathers, the former interposed between the white 



'Seven specimens. (No females seen.) 



