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CouES, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 305.— Bkown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 vii, 1882, 39, part (Kendall Co., Texas; crit.).— Bhewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, vii, 1882, 197 (Chiricahua Mts., Arizona; crit); viii, 1883, 191, part 

 (Colorado Springs, Colorado; crit.). — American Oknitholoqists' Union, 

 Check List, 1886, no. 588a.— Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 

 220 (n. California) .—Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1890, 148 (Ash- 

 croft, int. British Columbia). — Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Columbia, 

 1891, 37 (east of Cascade Mts.).— Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893, 

 52, 64 (interior of British Columbia, up to 4,000 ft). — Allen, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., V, 1893, 39 (Los Pinitos, n. e. Sonora, Oct).— Cooke, Birds 

 Colorado, 1897, 108 (summer resid. up to 9,000 ft).— Merrill, Auk, xv, 

 1898, 17 (Fort Sherman, n. w. Idaho, summer). 



P.[ipito] m.[a(Mlatus] m.e.galony.r CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 397, 

 part. 



P.ppito] maoulatus inegalonyx Henshaw, Orn. Rep. AVheeler's Surv., 1879, 300 

 (e. slope Sierra Nevada; crit; habits). — Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 

 437, part. 



[Pipilo maadatua.] Subsp. fi. Pipih) megalonyx Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xii, 1888, 748. 



Pipilo macuXaius arcticus megalonyx [!] Drew, Auk, ii, Jan., 1885, 16 (vertical 

 range in Colorado). 



Pipilo erythrophihalmus va.T. imegalonyx Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 

 178 (Colorado; Utah).— Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst, v, Nov., 1873, 172 (Salt 

 Lake City, Utah, breeding), 183 (Colorado); vii, 1875, 37 (Nevada). 



Pipilo erythrophthalmus . . var. mepaZonj/x Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 

 1873, 192 (crit).— (?) Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 

 (1874), 63 (Denver, Colorado). 



Pipilo erythrophthalmua megalonyx Ridgway, Bull. Ussex Inst, vi, Oct., 1874, 174 

 (Rocky Mts.); vii, Jan., 1875, 30 (Salt Lake City, Utah), 33 (Parleys Park, 

 Utah). 



PIPILO MACULATUS CLEMENT/E (Grinnell). 

 SAN CLEKENTE TOWHEE. 



Similar to P. in. megalonyx but bill and feet larger (at least rela- 

 tively) and coloration grayer; adult male with the black of a duller or 

 grayer cast, and adult female with coloration much lighter (broccoli 

 brown or grayish hair brown, instead of sepia or clove brown). 



Advlt TOafe.— Length (skins), 188.98-205.74 (197.61); wing, 79.76- 

 90.42 (85.34); tail, 88.39-103.12 (94.74); exposed culmen, 13.97-15.24 

 (14.73); depth of bill at ba,se (5 specimens), 9.65-10.41 (10.16); tarsus, 

 26.92-30.23 (28.45); middle toe, 17.78-20.32 (19.30); hind claw, 10.41- 

 15.75 (12.95); white on lateral tail-feather, 22.35-25.40 (24.38).' 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 178.31-210.82 (193.55); wing, 77.72- 

 82.30 (80.26); tail, 87.63-95.50 (91.19); exposed culmen, 13.72-14.73 

 (14.22); depth of bill at base (3 specimens), 9.40-10.16 (9.91); tarsus, 



' Fifteen specimens. 



