440 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



MELOZONE RUBRICATUM RUBRICATUM Cabanis. 

 LICHTENSTEIN'S GROUND SPARROW. 



Advlt {sexes alike). — Forehead deep hair brown or olive, this color 

 Sometimes extending over anterior portion (rarely over greater part) 

 of crown; rest of pilemn cinnamon-rufous varying to chestnut- I'ufous 

 or tawny; rest of upper parts plain hair brown, olive, or grayish olive- 

 brown; upper and anterior portion of lores, orbital ring (interrupted 

 in front), part of malar region and most of under parts white; lower 

 and posterior portion of lores grayish, becoming dusky next to eye; 

 auriculars olive, becoming dusky beneath eye; beneath and behind 

 auricular region cinnamon-rufous, chestnut-rufous, or tawnj-, confluent 

 with the same color on the occiput; sides of chest and breast grayish 

 brown, passing into a more buffy hue on flanks; under tail-coverts bufl'; 

 a dusky spot in center of chest; bill black; legs and feet brownish. 



Adult male. — Wing, 77.98; tail, 72.39; exposed culmen, 13.21; 

 depth of bill at base, 7.62; width of maxilla at base, 7.11; tarsus, 24.89; 

 middle toe, 16.00.' 



Adult feTnale.—Liength (skins), 145.80-157.73 (149.10); wing, 70.10- 

 76.20 (73.15); tail, 61.47-75.1S (68.33); exposed culmen, 13.21-14.22 

 (13.72); depth of bill at base, 7.62-8.38 (7.87); width of mandible at 

 base, 5.59-5.84 (5.71); tarsus, 23.37-23.88 (23.62); middle toe, 15.24- 

 16.26 (15.75).^ 



Southern portion of Mexican plateau, in States of Puebla (Acatlan, 

 etc.), Oaxaca (Cuicatlan, etc.), and Guerrero (Tlalixtaquilla, etc.). 



A.[tlapetes] rubricatus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, May, 1851, 140, footnote (Real 

 Arriba, Puebla, Mexico; Berlin Mus.; ex Tanagra rubricata Lichtenstein, 

 manuscript). 



Atlapetes rubricatus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 413 (descr.). 



Pipilo rubricatus Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 44. 



Melozone rubricata Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1866, 234. 



Pyrgisoma ruhricatum Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 326, 

 part (Atlixco, Puebla); Exotic Orn., i, 1868, 127, pi. 64, fig. 1 (Atlixco).— 

 Salvin and Godjian, Biol. Centr.-Am., Avea, i, 1886, 402, part (Real Arriba 

 and Atlixco, Puebla).— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 148 

 (Chietla and Acatlan, Puebla).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 

 731, part (Atlixco; Putla, Oaxaca?)-. 



[Pyrgisoma'] rubricatum Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 33, part. 



[Embernagra] rubricata Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 92, no. 7353. 



' One specimen from Acatlan, Puebla. 



'^Two specimens, from Cuicatlan, Oaxaca, and Tlalixtaquilla, Guerrero. 



