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^^Pipilo'] fuseus Sclatbr and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 33, part. 



[Pi.pilo fuseus'] var./wscMS Baied, Bhewee, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 



1874,121 (Temascaltepec; Cordova). 

 Xieneriafusca BuNAPAEte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 356. 

 (?) Pipilo mesoleucus (not of Baird) Sclatek, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 120, part 



(Mexico). 

 Pipilo fuseus var. crissalis (not FringUla crissalis Vigors) Lawrence, Mem. Bost. 



Soc.N.H.,ii, 1874,277 (Guadalajara; Tepic). 



PIPILO FUSCUS POTOSINUS Ridgvvaj. 

 PLATEATJ BROWN TOWHEE. 



Similar to P.f.fuscits but larger, paler, and grayer, the pileum paler 

 and more frequently tinged with rusty brown; buff of gular area 

 paler, with surrounding dusky triangular spots averaging smaller and 

 not so black; color of under tail-coverts, etc., slightly paler (dull ochra- 

 ceous or ochraceous-buff rather than tawny or cinnamon-tawny). 



Adult ///«/<>.— Length (skins), 184.91-213.36 (197.87); wing, 92.46- 

 101.35(95.25); taU, 89.92-106.17(95.25); exposed culmen, 14.48-15.75 

 (14.99); tarsus, 28.62-26.67 (25.40); middle toe, 17.27-18.29 (18.03).' 



Adult female.— Le\~^gt\i (skins), 184.91-207.26 (192.79); wing, 83.82- 

 95.76 (88.90); tail, 88.39-99.67 (92.96);, exposed culmen, 15.24-16.00 

 (15.49); tarsus, 24.38-26.92 (25.40); middle toe, 17.02-18.29 (17.53)." 



Central portion of Mexican plateau, from States of Puebla, Vera 

 Cruz (western edge), Hidalgo, San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato, etc., 

 north to Durango, southern Chihuahua, southern Nuevo Leon, and 

 southwestern Tamaulipas (M^.quihuana). 



Hpilo fuseus (not Pipilo fusca Swainson) Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 

 304 (San Andreas Chalchicomula, near Cordova, Vera Cruz). — Duges, La 

 Naturaleza, i, 1868, i40 (Guanajuato). — (?) Sumicheast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. 

 H., i, 1869, 552 (plateau and alpine reg.. Vera Cruz). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 409, part (Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon; 

 Guanajuato; Vera Cruz). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 148, 

 part (Puebla; Guanajuato; Santa Catarina; crit. ). — Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xii, 1888, 752, part (Puebla; n. Mexico).— (?) Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1890, 215 (Chalchicomula, Vera Cruz, nearly to base of Mount Ori- 

 zaba). — JouY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1894, 780 (Ahuak 'c-o and San Luis 

 Potosi; habits). — (?) Cox, Auk, xii, 1895, 357 (Orizaba, and at lower timber 

 line).— (?) Chapman, Bull. .'jn. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 41 (Las Vigas, Vera 

 Cru;!, alt. 8,000 ft.). 



[Pipilo'] fuseus Sclatbr and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 33, part. 



P. lipiio] fuseus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 440, part. 



Pipilo mesoleucus (not of Baird, 1854) Baird, Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv.; 

 ii, pt. ii, 1859, 18, part (Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon). — (?) Sclater, Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, part (Mexico). 



Pipilo fuseus potosinus Ridgway, Auk, xvi, July, 1899, 254 (Guanajuato, Mexico; 

 U.S. Nat. Mus.). 



' Twelve specimens. ^ Six specimens. 



