430 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



PIPILO FUSCUS FUSCUS Swainson. 

 BROWN TOWHEE. 



A(kdts {sexes alike).— Ahove dark hair brown or grayish sepia brown, 

 the pileum darker and browner, sonaetimes slightly tinged with chest- 

 nut; middle and greater wing-coverts and upper tail-coverfs usually 

 narrowly and indistinctly tipped with paler; ^ remiges and rectrices 

 with the general color darker, clearer, and less brown than other por- 

 tions; sides of head mainly colored like back, etc., but with loral and 

 suborbital regions mottled with pale buffy or dull whitish, and auricu- 

 lar region finely streaked with the same; malar region, chin, and 

 throat pinkish bufi' (deeper in winter, paler in summer plumage), the 

 first flecked with dusky, the nearlj' (sometimes quite) immaculate gular 

 area surrftunded laterally and posteriorly by rather large triangular 

 spots or streaks of black; median portion of breast and abdomen 

 white; sides of breast, sides, and flanks hair brown (paler than back); 

 anal and femoral regions and under tail-coverts cinnamon or cinnamon- 

 tawnjr; maxilla dusky, mandible pale brownish; iris brown; tarsi light 

 brown, toes darker. 



Adidt mafe.— Length (skins), 184. 16-197. 10 (190.75); wing, 87.12- 

 «6.77 (92.46); tail, 82.80-98.5.5 (92.96); exposed culmen, 13.72-15.49 

 {14.48); tarsus, 23.37-26.92 (24.89); middle toe, 16.76-18,80 (17.53).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 180.09-190.75 (184.91); wing, 82.04- 

 S9.15 (85.34); tail, 84.33-93.22 (87.88); exposed culmen, 14.22-15.24 

 (14.48); tarsus, 22.86-26.16 (24.89); middle toe, 17.02-17.78 (17.27).' 



Pacific slope of Sierra Madre, southwestern Mexico, from State of 

 Mexico (Temascaltepec, Tlalpam, Ajusco, Amecameca, etc.) through 

 States of Michoacan (Patzouaro) and Jalisco (north to Guadalajara) 

 and Territory of Tepic. 



Pipilofusca Swainson, Philos. Mag., new ser., i, 1827, 434 (Temascaltepec, Mexico; 

 coll . W. Swainson ) . 



Pipillofusca Swainson, Anim. in Menag., i, 1838, 347 (Mexico) . 



P.\ipilo~\ fusms Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 2C0. — Bonaparte, Consp.Av.,i, 1850, 

 487, part (Mexico).— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 440, part. 



Pipilo fuscus ScLATEE and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1869, 361 (City of Mex- 

 ico). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N.Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 121, foot- 

 note (Temascaltepec; Guadalajara; Tepic). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 ix, 1886, 148, part (plains of Colima, Tepic, Guadalajara, Temascaltepec, and 

 Valley of Mexico). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Gentr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 

 409, part (Temascaltepec; Guadalajara; valley of Mexico). — Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 752, part (near City of Mexico). 



^ In fresh plumage, especially in young birds which have just assumed the adult 

 plumage, these tips are quite distinct and more or less fulvesoent, particularly on the 

 upper tail-coverts. 



' Eleven specimens. 



* Six specimens. 



