68 — Drymaria in Baja California. [ZOE 
then its loud, shrill, warbling whistle, may be heard frequently dur- 
ing the day in those localities to which it resorts. 
At times two or three or more may be met with in near prox- 
imity, always busy in searching for food. 
Although its wings are ample, yet its flight does not appear to 
be long continued and is usually very low, below the branches of the 
trees, as if endeavoring to keep concealed as much as possible in 
the dark and silent woods. 
The nest which I discovered near the Rio Mazatlan was in a de- 
cayed tree, with the top and limbs broken off and overhung and 
festooned with vines. The pair had taken possession of a deserted 
woodpecker’s nest and I. often observed both the male and 
female pass in and out separately. I watched them for several days 
and when they were not about the hole, they were near by on some 
other tree. The nest was about twenty feet from the ground, and 
I am sorry to say I was not able to procure the eggs owing to many 
difficulties and the means of reaching the nest. 
DRYMARIA IN BAJA CALIFORNIA. 
T. S. BRANDEGEE. 
Eight species belonging to this genus, including the two here 
described, have thus far been found in Lower California. D, viscosa, 
a little sandwort, is the most northern extending from Socorro, 
where it was first collected by C. R. Orcutt, nearly to Todos Santos. 
Drymaria debilis, which also is found away from the Cape Region 
( Purisima ), may be too near the imperfectly defined D. cordifolia. 
The rest, excepting D. holostioides, belong so far as I know, on 
the peninsula, to the Cape Region D. arenarioides (D. Frankeni- 
 otdes ) credited to Xantus, from Cape St. Lucas, I did not find. 
Drymaria holosteoides and D. crassifolia were collected near Cape 
St. Lucas and described by Mr. Bentham in the Botany of HMS. 
Sulphur. D. crassifolia, according to Dr. Gray, was again col- 
lected near Cape St. Lucas by Xantus and has also been identified 
by him with D. polycarpiodes of Plante Fendleriane. Since then 
this form has been collected by Dr. Palmer about Guaymas and on 
the Peninsula at Los Angeles Bay, La Paz and other places, and I 
have found it growing abundantly throughout the middle portions 
of Baja California. This year at San José del Cabo a plant was 
