428 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



14.99-15.75 (15.24); depth of bill at base (two specimens), 10.16-10.41 

 (10.28); tarsus, 26.42-28.96 (27.43); middle toe, 17.53-19.56 (18.54).' 



Arid division of Lower Austral Province, in Arizona, southern 

 Nevada (bend of Colorado River), southwestern Utah (Washington, 

 St. George, Santa Clara Valley), northwestern New Mexico (valley of 

 Oila River), and southeastern California (valley of Colorado River). 



Pipilo aberli. Bajrd, in Stansbury's Exp. Great Salt Lake, Zool., June, 1852, 325, 

 330 (NewMexico^).— CouEs, Check List, 1873, no, 207; 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 309.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 81 (near 

 FortGarland, Colorado, breeding'), 121 (Gila R., Arizona) ; Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 xi, 1874, 45 (s. Utah); Annot. List Birds Utah, 1874, 6 (do.); Zool. Exp. W. 

 100th Merid., 1875, 306 (habits, etc.). — Baikd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 128, pi. 31, fig. 7; iii, 1874, 517 (Tucson, Arizona; 

 descr. nest and eggs). — Stephens, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878,. 93 (Gila 

 R., New Mexico). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 241.— Brewster, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 198 (Colorado, Gila, and San Pedro rivers, 

 Arizona; habits; descr. nest, eggs, and young). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 592.— Shabpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 

 756. — Bendike, Auk, vii, 1890, 27 (habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Fisher, 

 N. Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 105 (bend of Colorado R., Nevada; lower Santa 

 Clara Valley, Utah, etc.). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 183. — 

 Mitchell, Auk, xv, 1898, 310 (San Miguel Co., New Mexico, up to 9,000 ft.). 



JP.\ipilo] aberti Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 398. — Ridgway, Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 441. 



Pipilo abertii Baibd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv.,ix, 1858,516; ed. 1860 ("Birds N. 

 Am." ), atlas, pi. 30; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 18 (Fort 

 Yuma and Colorado R., California); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 395. — 

 Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 15 (Gila R., Arizona). — 

 Kennerly, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, 1859, 30, pi. 30 (Big Sandy R. 

 and Bill Williams R., Arizona).— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 119 ("New 

 Mexico," i. e., Arizona). — OouBS, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 84, 

 (Gila and Colorado valleys, jirizona); Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 324 (Colorado 

 Valley, etc.). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 244. — Yarrow and Henshaw, Rep. 

 Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1872 (1874), 15 (Washington and St. George, 

 Utah).. 



"PipUo" abertii Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 90 (valleys of Gila 

 and Colorado). 



[Pipilo'i abertii Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 93, no. 7366. — Coubs, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 1872, 153. 



Pipilo abertis Baird, in Rep. Ives' Ool. Exped., pt. iv, 1857-58, 6. 



Pipilo alberti Morcom and Stephens, Bull. Ridgway Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 50 

 (Fort Yuma, California; habits; notes). 



Kieneria abertii Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 356. 



PIPILO RUTILUS (Lichtenstein). 

 SCLATER'S TOWHEE, 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above uniform hair brown or broccoli brown, 

 slightly darker on pileum, some of the middle wing-coverts (occasion- 



' Seven specimens. 



^ Present whereabouts of type unknown. 



^Doubtful; the evidence unsatisfactory. 



