BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 421 



(27.18); middle toe, 18.29-20.32 (19.30); hind claw, 9.91-11.43 (10.67); 

 white cm lateral tail-feather, 12.19-19.30 (16.26).' 



Coast district of southern British Columbia (Vancouver Island, etc.), 

 Washington, Oregon, and northern California, south to San Francisco 

 Bay. 



Fringilla arctica (not Pipilo arctica Swainson) Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 49, 

 pi. 394 (Columbia R.). 



Pipilo ardicus (not of Swainson) Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 123; Birds Am., oct. 

 ed., iii, 1841, 164, pi. 194. " ^ 



JHpUo oregonus Bell, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., v, 1852, 6 (Columbia R., Ore- 

 gon; type in U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850,487; Compt. 

 Rend., xxxvii, 1853, 922; Notes Orn. Coll. Delattre, 1854, 22.— Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 513; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 392.— Cooper 

 and SucKLEY, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 206 (Washington).— 

 (?) ScLATER, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 119 ("California").— Lord, Proc. Roy. 

 Art. Inst. Woolw., iv, 1864, 120 (British Columbia).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 

 1870, 241. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 pi. 31, fig. 12. 



jnpilo oregonaBAnw, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 330 (Oregon). — 

 Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., vi, pt. iv, 1857, 89 (upper Des Chutes 

 and Cascade Mts., Oregon). 



IPipilo] oregonus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 92, no. 7355. 



{^Pipilo maculaius.^ Var. oregonus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, '152. 



Pipilo maculaius . . . var. oregonus Coues, Checl: List, 1873, no. 205. 



Pipilo maculatus, var. oregonus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 ii, 1874, 116. 



[Pipilo maculatus var. arcticusl h. oregonus CouBS, Birds N. W., 1874, 175 (syn- 

 onymy). 



Pipilo maculaius oregonus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 181; 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 2386.— Coues, Checls; List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 303. — Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 169 (Washington Co., Oregon, resident). — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no 5886. — Townsend, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 220 (Humboldt Co., n. w. California).— 

 Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N..H., iii, 1890, 148 (coast British Columbia).— 

 Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Columbia, 1891, 38 (west side Cascade Mts.). 



P.[ipilo'i m.[aculatus] oregonus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 396. 



P. [ipilol maculatus oregonus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 437. 



l_Pipilo maculatus.'] Subsp. y. Pipilo oregfonus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 

 1888, 749 (Vancouver I.; Straits of Juan de Fuca; etc.). 



(?) Pipilo m.aculatus falcifer McGregor, Condor, ii, Mar., 1900, 43 (Palo Alto, 

 centr. coast, California; coll. R. C. McGregor). ^ — Allen, Auk, xviii, 1901, 

 176 (republication of description) . 



' Nine specimens. 



'' The series designated under the above name by the describer seems to me to be 

 more properly referable to P. m. oregonus, though inclining toward P. m. megalonyx. 

 It is a question as to whether such intergi-ades should or should not be designated 

 by name. 



