BIRDS — FRINGlLLIDAE PIPILO FUSCUS. 517 
List of specimens. 
Catal. No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When collected 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. No. 
Collected by — 
6751 
6750 
6749 
G747 
6748 
4604 
4578 
Mow Mexico 
Lt, Abert. 
Camp 120, Bill Williams' 
Fork, N. M 
Feb. 12,1854... 
Feb. 6,1854 
Lt. Whipple 
92 
72 
101 
Kenn. and Moll 
Camp 114, N. Mexico 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
<J 
3 
Lt. J. G. Parke 
Dr. Hecrmann. 
do 
30 
A. Schott 
do 
PIPILO FUSCUS, Swainson. 
Pipih fusca, Sw. Philos Mag. I, 1827, 434.—? Ib. Ariim. in Menag 1838, 347.— Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 487.— 
Cassin, Illust. I, iv, 1853, 124 ; pi. xvii. (The figure seems to be of the California species, the 
description more like mesoleucus.) — Newberry, Zool. Cal. & Or. Route, Rep. P. R. R. VI, iv, 1857, 89. 
Kieneria fusca, Bonap. Comptes Rendus, XL, 1855, 356. 
Fringilla crissalis, Vigors, Zool. Blossom, 1839, 19. 
Sp. Ch. — Above dark olive brown, the crown with a very slight tinge of scarcely appreciable dark rufous. Under parts with 
the color somewhat similar, but of a lighter shade, and washed with grayish; middle of the belly ashy white; the under tail 
coverts pale rufous, shading into lighter about the vent and sides of lower belly ; chin and upper part of throat well defined pale 
rufous, margined all round by brown spots, a few of them scattered within the margin. Eyelids and sides of head, anterior to 
the eye, rufous like the throat. One or two feathers on the lower part of the breast with a concealed brown blotch. Outer 
primary not edged with white. 
Length, 9 inches ; wing, 4 ; tail, 5. 
Hah. — Coast region of California. 
In this species the bill is sinuated as in P. abertii, differing from that of P. erythropMJialrnus. 
The wing is much rounded ; the fourth quill longest ; the first shorter than the secondaries. 
The tail is considerably graduated ; the feathers broad ; the outer about . 70 of an inch shorter 
than the middle ones. 
This species is much darker than P. abertii, and lacks the black on chin and side of head ; 
the chin and throat are abruptly different from the breast ; the light patch margined with 
black spots. 
I do not feel sure that this species is really the P fuscus of Swainson. His description of 
" Gray, beneath paler ; throat obscure fulvous, with brown spots ; vent ferruginous. Length, 8 ; 
bill, . 70 ; wings, 3.50 ; tail, 4 ; tarsi, . 90 ; hind toe and claw, . 70," as given in 1827, differs 
from that of 1838. "Grayish brown above; beneath white; chin and throat fulvous, with 
dusky spots ; under tail coverts fulvous ; tail blackish brown, unspotted. Bill and legs pale, 
the latter smaller, and the claws more curved than in any other known species ; crown with a 
pale rufous tinge. Length, 7.50 ; wings, 3.50 ; tail, 4 ; tarsus, . 90 ; middle toe and claw the 
same; hinder toe, .65." These proportions are certainly quite different from those of the 
California species, nor are the colors of either paragraph the same. It is possible that the first 
description is that of the present bird, and the second that of a species allied to P. mesoleucus, 
but it is quite as likely that both of these are entirely different from Swainson's P. fuscus. 
