Descriptions of supposed new genera, species, and subspecies of American birds, IV. Fringillidae (concluded); Corvidae (part)

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NEW SPECIES, ETC., OF AMERICAN BIRDS.—

IV.

FRINGILLIM: (Concluded); CORVIDiE

(Part).

BY

ROBERT RIDGWAY.

Curator of^theDivision ofBirds, U. S- National Museum.

(By permissionofthe SecretaryoftheSmithsonianInstitution.)

Pipilomaculatusatratus.

Sax Diego Towhee.

SimilartoP.m.megalonyxbut decidedly darker,with white markings ofwings and tail

more

restricted; adultmale continuously deep black above(except for the usualwhitemarkings), eventhe

rump

^{being deep}

black,"insteadof

more

orlessconspicuouslygrayish; adult female with throatandchestverydark clove

brown

orsootyblack,andgeneral color ofupperpartsdeepclovebrown.

Southern coastdistrict of California, south of Sierra San Fernando andSierraSanGabriel,andsouth into

Lower

California.

Type, No. _{159474, U.}S. Nat.Mus.,

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ad.,Pasadena,

Los

Angeles Co., California,Feb.8,1896;JosephGrinnell.

Pipilofuscus potosinus.

Barranca Towhee.

SimilartoP. fuscus butlarger, paler,andgrayer, thepileum palerand

more

frequentlytingedwith rusty

brown

; buff ofgular area paler,with surrounding duskytriangular spotsaveragingsmallerandnot so black;

color ofundertail-coverts,etc.,slightly paler(dull ochraceousor ochra- ceous-buffratherthancinnamon-tawny).

Central plateau ofMexico,from States of Puebla,VeraCruz(_western edge), Hidalgo, San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato, etc., northwestward to southern Chihuahua.

Type, No. 78106, U.S. Nat. Mus.,

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ad., Guanajuato, Mexico: A.

Duges.

Aimophilarufescens sinaloa.

Sixaloa Sparrow.

Similarto A. r.pallida butback and scapulars decidedly paler and grayer,underparts

more

buffy (chin,throat,and malar stripepale buffy

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Ridgway,

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instead ofwhiteandsidesandflanksdeep buffwashed witholive,instead oflight buffy olive),

brown

postocular streak

much

narrower,sides of headlightergray,andbillshorterandrelativelydeeper.

WesternslopeofSierraMadre,State of Sinaloa,northwestern Mexico.

Type, No. 8393, California

Academy

of Sciences,

$

ad.,Tatemnlis, Sinaloa,

May

28,1S97;

W. W.

Price.

Cyanocorax affiniszeledoni.

Talamanca

Jay.

Similarto C. affinis Pelzeln,of Colombia,but decidedly brightercol- ored,withunderparts of thebody andtipsofrectrices distinctlyvellow (lightcreamyyellow) instead ofwhiteoryellowish white.

Isthmusof

Panama

toCostaRica(Talamanca).

Type, No.67972, U. S.Nat. Mus., £ad., Talamanca, Costa Rica;Jose"

C. Zeledon.

Those who have

recognized

two

geographical

forms

of this species

have

restrictedthe

name

affinisto this

form and

calledthe

Colombian

bird

Cyanocorax

sdateri

Heine. The

typeof C.affinis,

however, came from

Bogota,

and

theoriginaldescription gives the color of the underparts, etc., white. Furthermore,

having com- pared

birds

from Bogota and Cartagena

(the type locality of C. sdateri),I

can

discover.no difference

between

them.

Cyanolyca mitrata.

This name

is

proposed

as a substitute for C. ornata {Pica ornata Lesson, 1839), thelatter

name being

preoccupied

by

Pica ornataWagler, 1829, for aspeciesofthe Asiatic

genus

Cissa.

Perisoreusobscurus griseus.

Gray

Jay.

SimilartoP.obscurus but decidedly larger (exceptfeet)andcoloration

much

grayer;back,etc.,deep

mouse

gray,insteadofbrown, remiges and rectricesbetween gray(No.6)and

smoke

gray, instead ofdrab gray,and underparts grayishwhite insteadofbrownishwhite.

British Columbia,Washington, Oregon, and northern California, east oftheCoast and Cascaderanges.

Tvpe, No._{156543, U.}S.Nat.Mus. (U. S. Biol.SurveyColl.No.5269),

$

ad.,Keechelus Lake, Kittinas Co.,Washington,August 15,1897; Dr.

A.K. Fisher.

256 Oberholser, A New

Geothlypis. Vl^t Cyanocittastelleriazteca.

Aztec

Jay.

Similarto C.s.diademata(

=

Cyanura macrolopha Baird') but neck,

"back, and scapulars dull blue,insteadof brownishgray, crest

more

or less tinged with blue, and the general blue color

much

deeper(rump, underparts,etc., azure blue instead of pale blue orturquoiseblue,the wing-coverts, secondaries,and tail dullparisblue instead ofdull cobalt blue);streakonforehead

more

tingedwithblue.

South-centralMexico,inthe StatesofVeraCruz(Orizaba,etc.),Puebla, Morelos,Mexico, andMichoacan.

Type,No.35156, U.S.Nat.Mus.,Mountains near Mirador,VeraCruz, June, 1864;C. Sartorius.

The name

Cyanocitta galeata

Cabanis

is a

synonym

of C. s.

(oronata (Swains.), Cabanis, like Sharpe,

having

incorrectly applied the

name

coronatatothe present form.

DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GEOTHLYPIS.

BY

HARRY

C.

OBERHOLSER.

The form

of Geothlypis trichas inhabiting the Pacific coast regionof the

United

States appears to

be

subspecifically distin- guishable

from

that of the interior, to

which

it has heretofore

been

referred.

As

thetypeof Geothlypist. occidentalis

came from

the

Truckee

River,

Nevada, and

thus represents the bird of the latter area, it is the

purpose now

to separate the Pacific race

under

the

name

1

The

nameCyanocittadiademataorCyanocittastelleridiademata has been quite universally misapplied totheform of southerncentral Mexico, here renamedasabove. ThetypelocalityofBonaparte's Cyanogarrtdus diadematus isZacatecas,onthewesternsideof theMexicanplateau; and specimenscol- lected thereby Mr.Nelsonare distinctlyreferable totheRocky Mountainform which Prof. Bairdlaternamed Cyanuramacrolopha. Itthereforebecomes necessarytousethenamediademata,instead of macrolophafor the Rocky Mountainbird,andtorenamethe bird towhichthenamediademata has been erroneouslyapplied.