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pileum slightly darker and browner; tail blackish brown; under parts 

 as in P. ('. crixKulis, but throat-patch slightly paler and more vinaceous. 



Adult male.— heugth (skins), a::iO. 00-230. 00 (226.00); wing, 92.00- 

 1U5.00 (99.00); tail, 103.00-116.00 (111.00); exposed culmen, 11.00- 

 16.60 (11.83); depth of bill at base, 9.00-10. DO (9.75); tarsus, 28.00- 

 29.00 (28.76); middle toe, 19.50-21.00 (20.12).^ 



Adult fijMde.—ljength (skin), 223.00; wing, 96.00; tail, 106.00; 

 exposed culmen, 15.0<»; depth of bill at base, 10.00; tarsus, 28.00; 

 middle toe, 20.00.' 



Extreme northern portion of Sacramento Valley, California (Battle 

 Creek, Tehama and Shasta counties). 



(?) Pipilo fusciis crlssalin IMeeriam, North Am. Fauna, no. 16, 1899, 126 (near 



Gazelle and Edgwood, Siskiyou Co.). 

 Fipilo fuscus carols McGkegok, Bull. Coop. Orn. Club, i, Jan., 1899, 11 (Battle 



Creek, n. California; coll. K. C. McGregor). — Allen, Auk, xvi, 1899, 343 



(republication of description). 



[I am extremely doubtful whether this supposed form can be main- 

 tained; but since the American Ornithologists' Union Committee have 

 passed it favorably I have concluded to accept this decision, without, 

 however, strongly indorsing it. The alleged characters are exceed- 

 ingly slight and by no means comparable to those which distinguish 

 most recognized subspecies, for example, the southern form of the 

 same species (J', c. se'iicula). Furthermore, the ascribed range is 

 verv unsatisfactory, specimens from a locality which should represent 

 an extreme northern form (Baird, Shasta County) being quite the same, 

 so far as I am able to discern, as true J', cj'/ssaliti. 



These observations are based on the describei-\s type and cotypes, 

 with some of the other material examined by him at the time. The 

 former are all fall (October and November) birds, in very freshh^ 

 assumed plumage, and this will, in my judgment, account, to a large 

 degree at least, for the darker coloration.] 



PIPILO CRISSALIS SENICULA (Anthony). 

 ANTHONY'S TOWHEE. 



Similar to P. c. orlnnaliis but smaller and much darker and grayer; 

 back, etc., dark hair brown; pileum warm sepia brown; chest, etc., 

 light hair brown or brownish gray. 



Adult mafe.— Length (skins), 201.17-221.74 (210.06); wing, 88.39- 

 100.84 (94.23); tail, 100.33-112.27 (104.90); exposed culmen, 14.22- 

 15.76 (14.99); tarsus, 24.38-27.94 (26.42); middle toe, 17.53-19.81 

 (18.54).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 200.41-206.25 (202.69); wing, 85.86- 

 90.42(87.88); tail, 99.82-102.11 (100.84); exposed culmen, 14.48-15.24 

 (14.73); tarsus, 25.40-27.43 (26.42); middle toe, 17.53-18.54 (ls.03). 



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' Four specimens. ' Nine specimens. 



'' One specimen. * Five specimens. 



