420 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult Mu/e.— Length (skins), 186.69-202.69 (191.01); wing, 81.53- 

 90.17 (86.11); tail, 94.49-102.11 (97.54); exposed culmen, 12.95-14.99 

 (13.72); depth of bill at base, 9.91-10.92 (10.41); tarsus, 26.42-29.21 

 (28.19); middle toe, lS.54-20.32 (19.56); hind claw, 12.45-14.22 

 (13.21); white on lateral tail-feather, 21.59-28.45 (23.88).^ 



Adult feiiude. — Length (skin), 191.77; wfng, 83.31; exposed culmen, 

 12.95; depth of bill at base, 9.91; tarsus, 26.67; middle toe, 17.78; 

 hind claw, 12.70; white on outer tail-feather, 20.83.^ 



Southern coast district of California south of Sierra San Fernando 

 and Sierra San Gabriel (Los Angeles and San Diego counties), and 

 south into Lower California. 



Pipilo megalonyx (not of Baird) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 119 (heights of 

 San Paaqual, San Diego Co., CaUfornia). 



Pipilo maculatus megalonyx Moecom, Bull. Ridgw. Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 50 (San 

 Gorgonio and Bear valleys, San Bernardino Co., s. California). — Emehson, 

 Bull. Cal. Ac. Sci., 1887, 423 (Volcan Mts., San Diego Co., s. California).— 

 (?) Anthony, Zoe, iv, 1893, 242 (San Pedro MartirMts., Lower Calfornia) .— 

 Grinnell, Pub. ii, Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1898, 40 (Los Angeles Co., s. Cali- 

 fornia, resident) . 



P. [ipilo} maculatug megalonyx Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 437, part. 



Pipilo maculatus atraius Ridgway, Auk, xvi, July, 1899, 254 (Pasadena, Los 

 Angeles Co., s. California; U. S. Nat. Mus. ). 



PIPILO MACULATUS OREGONUS (Bell). 

 OREGON TOWHEE. 



Similar to jP. ni. megalonyx but smaller (except bill and feet), with 

 hind claw much smaller, and coloration much darker; adult male with 

 few if any white streaks on back, those on scapulars much reduced 

 in size, white wing-markings much smaller (sometimes almost obsolete), 

 and white tail-spots much smaller; adult female with color of throat 

 and chest dark soot}'^ brown or sooty black, general color of upper 

 parts dark sooty brown, and white markings much more restricted 

 than in female of ^P. m. megalonyx; young darker and more uniform 

 in color than young of P. in. me-galonyx, the anterior under parts 

 (throat, chest, etc.) nearly uniform sooty, instead of conspicuously 

 streaked. 



J[(^^i!mafe.— Length (skins), 179.83-207.77 (197.10); wing, 81.79- 

 88.14(84.58); tail, 86.87-98.30 (93.73); exposed culmen, 13.72-14.99 

 (14.48); depth of bill at base, 9.65-11.68 (10.92); tarsus, 26.92-28.96 

 (27.94); middle toe, 18.54-20.32 (20.07); hind claw, 9.91-13.21 (10.92); 

 white on lateral tail-feather, 16.00-24.64 (20.32).' 



Adult fe7nale.— Length (skins), 176.53-203.20 (195.83); wing, 76.96- 

 85.85 (80.77); tail, 84.07-97.79 (90.68); exposed culmen, 13.21-14.73 

 (14.22); depth of bill at base, 10.41-11.18 (10.67); tarsus, 24.89-28.45 



' Eleven specimens. ' Thirteen specimens. 



^ One specimen. 



