Ripilo fuscus 25, 2 mi. S. of Mistla, 5400 ft. Oaxaca, Mex. July 15, 1946 with small black triangles (on the feather tips) that are very suggestive of P. f. fuscus and P. f. potosinus. The dorsal aspect of the bird is certainly fuscus-like, and the distribution of orange-buff on the flanks & anal region is also fuscus-like. I think it a well-marked race of P. fuscus. At any rate, it would appear that Moore's toxi is N. G. 4 1/2 mi. SE of Oaxaca, 5400 ft. Oaxaca, Mex. July 16, 1946 Collected an adult on the way down from the mountains to the plains about the city of Oaxaca. We saw no little Brown Towhees above 6000+ ft., where the scrub oaks come in. This country was once grown to mixed pines and oaks, but apparently the pines have been logged off on the lower slopes and the oaks have taken over. This bird was collected below the oak belt, in a narrow, steep-walled canyon, with a stream in the canyon floor. The walls of the canyon are pretty well covered with corn-fields, and the country is open, with only scattered forest shrubs. The bird collected was one of three (possibly a family group) which flew from the roadside into a low tree. This shows that P.