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yellow to light cadmium yellow), the under tail-coverts decidedly paler 

 sometimes white, the lower back and rump sometimes spotted or 

 streaked with black; lateral portions of back, scapulars, wings, tail, and 

 upper tail-coverts black; middle and innermost greater wing-coverts 

 broadly tipped with white (sometimes with pale yellow), forming two 

 conspicuous bands; outer webs of tertials with a large terminal spot 

 of white (absent in much abraded plumage); terminal portion of pri- 

 maries edged with white; a large white patch at base of primaries, 

 extending across both webs except on outermost primarj^ the outer 

 web of which is black; upper tail-coverts broadly tipped with white 

 (except in worn plumage) ; inner webs of two outermost tail-feathers 

 with terminal third or more white; maxilla black or dusky, mandible 

 paler (plumbeous in life?); legs and feet dusky (plumbeous in life?); 

 length (skins), 213.36-241.30 (225.55); wing, 114.30-123.95 (117.35); 

 tail, Slt.ee-GY.TQ (92.46); culmen, 23.3Y-25.15__(^.64); depth of bill at 

 base, 19.30-22.35 (20.57); tarsus, 26.16-27.44(26.67); middle toe, 

 17.78-19.56 (19.05).^ ^ ' 



Adult feviale. — Above yellowish olive-green (more yellowish on 

 head, neck, and rump, more grayish on back and scapulars), streaked, 

 except on rump, with dusky, the streaks broadest on back, sometimes 

 indistinct on pileum and hindneck; wings and tail grayish, the former 

 with white markings, as in the male, but the white patch at base of 

 primaries much smaller, sometimes obsolete; white on inner webs of 

 lateral tail-feathers restricted to a narrow terminal margin; sides 

 of head (including narrow superciliary stripe) and under parts yellow, 

 paler and less pure than in the male; length (skins), 213.36-238.76 

 (223.62); wing, 105.66-113.03 (110.74); tail, 85.85-91.95 (89.15); cul- 

 men, 24.64-25.40 (25.15); depth of bill: at base, 20.07-20.57 (20.32); 

 tarsus, 26.16-27.43 (26.92); middle toe, 18.03-19.30 (18.80)." 



Immature male. — Similar to adult female, but rather brighter col- 

 ored, with dusky streaks above mainly confined to back and scapulars, 

 and broader as well as more c'ecidedly black, the pileum and hindneck 

 without streaks. 



Western and south-central Mexico, in States of Sinaloa (Mazatlan, 

 Rosario, Culiacan, etc.), Durango (Chacala), Jalisco (Las Palmas), 

 Colima (Ai'meria), and Puebla (Chietla). 



Coccothmustes chrysopeplus Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1832, 4 (Mexico; coll. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond.). 



P.ljiylus] chrysopeplus Gray, Gen. Birds, it, 1844, 362. 



l^Coccohorus'] chrysopeplus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 504 (Mexico). 



Ph.[euclicus'\ chrysopeplus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, July, 1851, 153, footnote (excl. 

 syn. chrysogaMer Ijisson) . 



PheticHcus chrysopeplus Finsch, Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen, ii, 1870, 339 (Mazat- 

 lan).— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 274 (Mazatlan; Eiodela 

 Armeria, Oolima). — Ferrari -Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 141 



' Six specimens. ' Five specimens. 



