578 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



tinged with olive, on chest, sides, and flanks; axillars and under wing- 

 coverts dull yellowish white; length (skins), 102.62-117.09 (107.95); 

 wing, 49.78-56.13 (52.83); tail, 42.16^9.28 (46.72); exposed culmen, 

 8.64-9.14 (8.89); depth of bill at base (three specimens), 8.88; tarsus, 

 14.48-15.24 (14.99); middle toe, 10.92-12.45 (11.68).' 



Southwestern Mexico, in States of Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Presidio; 

 Rosario), Tepic (Santiago), Jalisco (Hacienda el Molino, Atemajao, etc.), 

 Colima (plains of Colima), Guanajuato, Morelos (Cuernavaca), and 

 Puebla (Huehuetlan, Atlixco, etc.). 



Sp.[ermopliUa] iorqueola Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 495 (Mexico). 



Spermophila torqueola Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 105 (Mexico); Ibis, 1871, 

 6 (monogr.). — Duges, La Naturaleza, i, 1868, 139 (Guanajuato). — Law- 

 rence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 276 (Mazatlan; plains of Colima; 

 Tepic). — (trayson, !Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 276, part (habits, song, 

 etc.). — Salvin and God.man, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1885, 351, part(excl. 

 loc. Capulalpam and Tehuantepec). — Shaepb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 

 1888, 119, part (Silao; Mazatlan; Presidio, near Mazatlan). 



ISpermophila] torqueola Sclater and Salvin, Nora. Av. Neotr., 1873, 28. 



[Gyrinorhynchus] torqueolus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 105, no. 7586. 



[Sjiurophila] torqueola Giebel, Thes. Orn., iii, 1871, 523. 



Sporophila torqueola Fehkari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,ix, 1886, 142 (Hue- 

 huetlan, Puebla). — JouY Proc. V. H. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1894, 779 (Hacienda 

 el Molino, Jalisco). 



.S' [porophila'] torqueola Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 450, part. 



Sporophila ochropyga Cab.vnis, Journ. fiir Orn., ix, Jan., 1861, 5 (Cuernavaca, 

 Morelos, s. w. Mexico; Berlin Mus.; ex Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 

 1854, iri,^nomen nudum!). 



Spermophila atriceps "Baird ilS." Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., rai, 

 May, 1867, 479 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa; V. S. Nat. Mus.). 



[Gyrinorhynchus] atriceps Gray-, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 106, no. 7587. 



[Sporophila'] atriceps Giebel, Thes. Orn., iii, 1877, 518. 



SPOROPHILA ALBITORQUIS (Sharpe). 

 WHITE-COLLARED SEEDE4TER. 



" Similar to S. torqueola, but distinguished by a white collar round 

 the hind neck. Total length, 111.76; culmen, 8.89; wing, 57.15; tail, 

 tail, 46.99; tarsus, 15.24." 



State of Oaxaca (Capulalpam, Tehuantepec, etc.), southern Mexico. 



I have not seen this form, which if not a phase of plumage of 

 8. torqueola may be a subspecies of that species. 



Spermophila torqueola (not of Bonaparte) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 

 303 (Capulalpam, Oaxaca).— Grayson, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H.,ii, 1874, 276, 

 part (Tehuantepec, Oaxaca).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 i, 1885, 351, part (Capulalpam).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 

 119, part (in synonymy). 



S.\_porophila'] torqueola Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 450, part (Tehuan- 

 tepec) . 



Spermophila albitorquis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 120 (Capulal- 

 pam, Oaxaca; Brit. Mus.). 



'Ten specimens. 



