PIPILO ALBIGULA. 
ffHITE-TIIROATED FINCH. 
PIPILO ALBIGULi. Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien., (1.859), p. 305. 
This Finch very closely resembles the P. Mcsolcucus ; indeed, so much alike are they, that most persons would not probably notice 
any difference. The variations are, that the present bird has rather more white in the centre of the abdomen, and the dusky spots 
which border the chin and throat do not extend quite so far, and are better defined, while the yellowish hue of the chin 1 is followed 
on the throat by whitish. 
This bird was obtaiued by Mr. Xantus, at Cape St. Lucas, in Lower California, and was sent by him, in a collection containing 
many novelties, to the Smithsonian Institution. The region in which it was procured is one not very promising for bird-life, being 
generally sterile in character and forbidding in aspect. The following account of it is from Prof. Baird’s paper, published in the 
Proceedings, as quoted above : “ The shore is sandy for about a quarter of a mile inland, whence a cactus desert extends for a 
width of about six miles up to the high mountains on the West and North. The Cereus gigantius is a prominent feature in this 
peculiar vegetation, rising occasionally to a -height of sixty or more feet. The ground is covered for miles with au efflorescence painful 
to the eye, into or through which the feet sink to a considerable distance. There is no fresh mer nearer than San Jose, a distance 
of twenty-eight miles. The region, though in the spring and summer inhabited almost exclusively by land-birds, is said in the rest 
of the year to be the resort of innumerable water-fowl and waders.” 
From this forbidding district, however, many new and curious species were added by Mr. Xantus to our avi-fanua. 
Upper part of head, chestnut. Back, brownish-ash. Wings aud tail, dark -rufous ; outer edge of primaries, light grey. Chin, yellow ; 
throat, white, both bordered by a row of dusky spots. Lower part of breast and belly, white ; flanks, light brown. Under tail-coverts, 
dark buff. Bill, upper- mandible, black ; lower, dark brown. Legs and feet, brown. 
The figures are life-size. 
