4^ Deformed Flowers of Dendroinecon, , [zoe 



It breeds within a hundred miles of the boundary at Ashcroft and 

 Duck's Station, B. C. Dr. Cooper mentions this species as one of 

 the seventy-five doubtful west coast birds as likely to occur on the 



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Merula confinis. St. Lucas Robin.— I noticed this light colored 

 form of robin among a large flock of western robins on a hillside 

 feeding on earth worms, Haywards, January 2, 1882. (No. 159, ?, 

 coll. W. O. E.) My first impression was that I had obtained an al- 

 bino robin until I compared it with a specimen collected by Mr. 

 Frazar in the Sierra de la Laguna, Lower California. Mr. Geo. B. 

 Badger informs me that he took what he supposed to be this robin 

 at Haywards, March 10, 1880. 



[A specimen of the black- throated blue warbler (D. cm'ulescc7is) 

 and one of the black and white warbler ( M. varia) which Mr. Em- 

 erson collected on the Farallon Islands have been recorded. (Proc. 

 Cal. Acad., 2d Ser. i, 48.) 



Mr. T. E. Slevin collected a white -throated sparrow near San 

 Francisco, December 23, 188S. — w. E. b.] 



DEFORMED FLOWERS OF DENDROMECON. 



(With Plate I.) 

 BY T. S. BRANDEGEE. 



Dendromecon rigiditm is found nearly throughout California, but 

 most abundantly in the southern part, where it is common and of 

 more luxuriant growth. It was brought by the writer last year from 

 Lake County, from Mt. St. Helena, Alta, Encinitas, Santa Catalina 

 Island, and from Mt. Tamalpais. near San Francisco; and the year 

 before from Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Islands and the Santa Inez 

 mountams near Santa Barbara. 



The form found on the islands is the same on all, and differs from 

 that of the mamland only in its smoother leaves, which usually have 

 the membranous margin entire and are commonly broader. It has 



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All the mainland forms known to us have rougher leaves with the 

 membranous margin more or less lacerated. The specimens found 

 near Alta, however, approach in this way as well as in breadth of 

 leaves the island forms. 



