BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 439 



culmen 13.72, depth of bill at base 7.87, width 7.37, tar,«us 23.62, 

 middle toe 15.75. ( Southern portion of Mexican plateau, in State of 

 Puebla and adjacent parts of Oaxaca and Guerrero.) 



Melozone rubricatum rubricatum (p. 440) 



ee. Larger, with larger and relatively broader bill and rather paler or brighter 



coloration; adult female averaging, wing 76.45, tail 67.56, culmen 14.99; 



depth of bill at base 9.65, width 5.84, tarsus 25.40, middle toe, 17.53. 



(Pacific slope of Mexico, from State of Sinaloa to State of Colima, 



Chihuahua?) .Melozoue rubricatum xantusii (p. 441) 



cc. Auriculars chestnut, like occiput, etc., passing into black auteriorily. (High- 

 lands of Costa Rica. ) Melozone cabaniai (p. 441 ) 



hh. Chest without any central spot of black or dusky; slides of head white with 

 posterior half of auricular region mainly chestnut. (Highlands of Guate- 

 mala.) Melozone biarcuatum (p. 443) 



OM. Chin and throat black; no rufous on head; sides of neck and edge of wing yel- 

 low; a white spot in center of auricular region. 

 6. Pileum dusky black, duller medially and tinged with olive posteriorly; tail 

 sKorter (less than 66.04). (Highlands of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.) 



Melozone leacotis (p. 444) 



hh. Pileum black laterally, divided by a broad median stripe of gray; tail longer 



(72.39 or more). (Highlands of Guatemala.) Melozone occipitalis (p. 445) 



MELOZONE KIENERI (Bonaparte). 

 BONAPAKTE'S GROtTUD SPARROW. 



Adult. — Brown, with the pileum and sides of head rufous; auriculars 

 same color as the back, the tips of the feathers, however, chestnut; 

 lores white; forehead and cheeks dusky black; under parts whito, the 

 flanks the same color as the back; an indistinct spot of black on breast; 

 crissum rufescent; bill blackish horn color; feet pale hazel; total 

 length, 185.42; wing, 83.82; tail, 73.66; tarsus, 25.40.' 



This little known bird, according to Sclater and Salvin, is in gen- 

 eral plumage much like 21. rubricatui/i, "but is distinguishable from 

 that species by its larger size, stouter bill, and much stronger feet and 

 tarsi." It is also said to differ in the absence of any white orbital ring, 

 and in having the whole pileum, except the dusky forehead, as well as 

 the malar region, rufous. 



Mexico? (Locality of the single known specimen given as western 

 America.) 



P-lyrgisomd] kieneri Bonap.vete, Consp. Av.,i, July, 1850, 486 ("America occ"; 



Paris Mus.) . 

 Pyrgisoma kieneri Sclater and S.vlvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 325, 326, 

 (crit.); Exotic Orn., 1868, 130, pi. 65, fig. 2.— Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 401 (Mexico ?).— Shabpb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xii, 1888, 732. 

 [Pyrgisovia] feneri Sclater and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 33. 

 [^Embernagral kieneri Gray, Hand-list, ii,- 1870, 92, no. 7350. 



'Sclater and Salvin, Exotic Orn., pt. ix, p. 130; translation. 



