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| | The Generic Allocation of the Green-Tailed Towhee |
 | | Its coloration, too, is not so abnormal for Pipilo as has been supposed, every feature of color--rufous cap, white throat, yellow carpal edge, and olive-green upper parts-- being shared by some species of that genus, though by none in the stone conbination. |
 | | The wing, however, is very different from that of Pipilo, being quite the same in the relative length of the primaries as that of Zonotrichia, that of Z. albicollis being even more rounded." In the statement quoted above with reference to color features, Ridgway's remark that the rufous cap and other color characters are, "shared. |
 | | The purpose of the present paper is to present evidence to show that this species is a true Pipilo allied to the type species, Pipilo erythroph- thalmus, by way of the closely related Pipilo ocai, the Collared Towhee, of Mexico. |
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