1873.] 95 [Ridgway. 



R. R. Rept. xii, ii, 158, 1860. — Coues, Prod. Orn. Ariz., 

 p. 14, 1866.— Cab., Journ. 1862, 336. — Lord., Int. Obs. 1865, 

 409; (Habits).— Gray, Hand List, i, 42, 1869. — Cab., Ueb. 

 Berl. Mus. 1869, 207. 

 Hab. Western Region of N. Am., from Oregon southward; Ari- 

 zona (F. Whipple, Coues) ; Colorado (El Paso Co., Aiken) ; Table 

 lands of Mexico. (Coll. G. N. Lawrence.) 



Description. 



Sp. ch. Adult male (1 2054, Puget's Sound, Washington Ter.; Dr. 

 C. B. Kennerly). Above, including the auriculars, umber-brown, with 

 a faint reddish cast, this tinge most apparent in a sharply defined 

 band across the throat; the continuity of the brown above is inter- 

 rupted by a scarcely observable collar round the nape, of concealed 

 whitish, which can only be detected laterally, where there is also an 

 inconspicuous black space. Whole head above and neck behind, with 

 numerous small circular spots of reddish white; back scapulars and 

 wings, more sparsely and more minutely marked with the same, the 

 two or three lower feathers of the secondary-coverts, with each a ter- 

 minal, somewhat oval, larger spot of pure white. Secondaries crossed 

 (exposed) bands of pure white, and narrowly tipped with the same, 

 the bands formed by semi-circular spots on the outer webs. Pri- 

 maries almost plain, but showing faintly defined obsolete bands, the 

 3d, 4th, and 5th, with two or three conspicuous white spots on outer 

 webs, beyond their emargination; primary-coverts perfectly plain. 

 Tail considerably darker than the wings, crossed with seven narrow 

 bands of pure white, the last of which is terminal and not well 

 defined; these bands are formed by transverse spots not touching 

 the shaft on either web. Lores, sides of the forehead, sides of the 

 throat (beneath the cheeks and ear-coverts) and lower parts in 

 general, pure white, the ante-orbital white continuing back over the 

 eye to its middle, but not beyond it. Lateral portion of the neck 

 and breast (confluent with the gular belt), and sides, umber, like the 

 back, but more numerously, though less distinctly speckled — the 

 spots rather larger and more longitudinal on the sides. Breast, ab- 

 domen, anal region and lower tail-coverts with narrow longitudinal 

 stripes of nearly pure black. Jugulum immaculate. Tarsi mottled 

 on the outside with brown. Lining of the wing white, with a trans- 

 verse patch of blackish across the ends of the under primary-coverts, 



