Wing, 3.75 to 4.30; culmen, 1.15 to 1.30; tarsus, 1.50 to 1.75; middle toe, 1.10 to 1.25. (Ten adult males!) Colors similar, but with a greater predominance of black; black heavily prevailing on back and rump, and extending to tip of feathers; also predominates on tertials and tail-feathers. _Hab._ Mexico and Central America var. _mexicana_.[31] Wing, 4.45; culmen, 1.62; tarsus, 1.50; middle toe, 1.20. (One specimen). Colors exactly as in last. _Hab._ Brazil var. _meridionalis_.[32] _b._ Pectoral crescent much less than half an inch wide. Wing, 3.90 to 4.10; culmen, 1.25 to 1.35; tarsus, 1.40 to 1.55; middle toe, 1.00 to 1.20. (Three adult males.) Colors generally similar to _magna_, but crown decidedly streaked, though black predominates; ground-color above less reddish than in either of the preceding, with markings as in _magna_. Pectoral crescent about .25 in breadth. _Hab._ Cuba var. _hippocrepis_.[33] B. In spring birds, crown about equally streaked with black and grayish; black spots of back occupying only basal half of feathers, the terminal portion being grayish-brown, with narrow bars of black; feathers of the rump with whole exposed portion thus barred. Yellow of the throat extending over the maxillæ nearly to the angle of the mouth. Wing, 4.40 to 5.05; culmen, 1.18 to 1.40; tarsus, 1.30 to 1.45. (Six adult males.) A grayish-brown tint prevailing above; lesser wing-coverts concolor with the wings (instead of very decidedly more bluish); black bars of tertials and tail-feathers clean, narrow, and isolated. White of sides, flanks, and crissum nearly pure. _Hab._ Western United States and Western Mexico var. _neglecta_. In _magna_ and _neglecta_, the feathers of the pectoral crescent are generally black to the base, their roots being grayish-white; one specimen of the former, however, from North Carolina, has the roots of the feathers yellow, forbidding the announcement of this as a distinguishing character; _mexicana_ may have the bases of these feathers either yellow or grayish; while _hippocrepis_ has only the tips of the feathers black, the whole concealed portion being bright yellow. In _mexicana_, there is more of an approach to an orange tint in the yellow than is usually seen in _magna_, but specimens from Georgia have a tint not distinguishable; in both, however, as well as in _hippocrepis_, there is a deeper yellow than in _neglecta_, in which the tint is more citreous.