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P I P I L O ALBIGrTTL A.
WHITE-THKOATED EINCH.
PIPILO ALBIGUL1. Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Seien., (1859), p. 305,
Tl„ , Flncll vcry dosely resembles the P. S i c « , ! « ; indeed, so muck aliko ar. ttey, that moot pemons would not probably »otic.
llv Th. variations arc, that the present bird has rather more wbitc 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 deUn.d, while the yellowish hoc of the ehin is Mowed
0n t a W r i ™ ”o toin«i by Mr. Xante», at Cape St. Lucas, in lower California, and was sent by him, in a eoheea.neontai.ing
many novelties, to the Smithsonian I»sUt»t,o„. The region in which it was procured is on. not very H | for * « * < > « *
3 . 1 « , 2 in character and forbidding in aspect. Th. following account of it is from Prof. Band's paper, pubtahed . . the ■ - MMWlBWI ImmH :
of twcidy-eight in th . spring and summer inhabited almost exclusively by la .d -b i* , is said in the re«
S i .... Ke th0 resort of. innumerable water-fowl and waders.’
Prom ~ S . r C t r j t — ed"' . « " g r e y “ « n , yellow.;
W B B B S S m by a ra; ± ^ H p . « w * « * m *** * * >™~-
dark buff. Bill, upper mandible, black; lower, dark brown. Legs and feet, brown.
The figures are life-size.