Description of a New Pipilo

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Richard C. McGregor

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Subsp. char. Terminal white spot of outer tail feather considerably shorter (less than one inch) than in megalonyx; claws much longer and heavier than in oregonus; under tail coverts darker than in atratus; rump more or less grayish, upper tail coverts tipped with pale buff.

Type. No. 2274, ♂ , McGregor Collection, Palo Alto, California, April 9, 1898. Chord of wing 3.38; tail 3.75; exposed culmen .55; white tail spot .76; chord of hind claw 46. Collected by T. J. Hoover.

Type. No. 882, ♀ , McGregor Collection, Palo Alto, California, March 3, 1898.

Range. San Francisco Bay region.

¹falx + fero: sickle-bearing, referring to the large hind claw.

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McGregor, Richard C. (1900) "Description of a New Pipilo," Condor: Vol. 2 : Iss. 2 , Article 11.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/condor/vol2/iss2/11