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it only at Santiago, where, on November 21, two specimens were shot and a 

 third seen in tales on the border of the lagoon. To the northward, Mr. Bryant 

 has noted it at Comondu and Jesus Maria, and Mr. Anthony has observed it 

 " on the northwest coast during migration " (Bryant). It probably does not 

 breed on the Peninsula, for in California, where it is rather common in spring 

 and autumn, and not uncommon locally in winter, it has been found in summer 

 onlv among the mountains from 4,000 feet altitude upwards. It migrates as 

 far south as Guatemala, and is common in winter in western Mexico. 



Melospiza lincolnii striata Brewst. 



Forbush's Sparrow. 



Melospha lincolni (not FringlUa lincolnii Audubon) Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 VI. 1883, 348, part (Victoria Mts.). Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci.,2d ser., 

 IL 1889, 303, part (Cape Region). 



Mr. Chapman has expressed some doubts ^ as to the validity of striata, to 

 which he refers two autumn birds taken in British Columbia by Mr. 

 Streator, and ]Mr. Ridgway, in his Birds of North and Middle America, cites 

 the name, preceded by a question-mark, in his synonymy of M. lincolnii. I 

 see no reason why the existence of intermediate specimens, such as those to 

 which Mr. Chapman calls attention, should be necessarily prejudicial to the 

 recognition of the form as a subspecies, although its standing cannot perhaps be 

 regarded as assured until its breeding-grounds are definitely known, and fully 

 mature birds in summer plumage have been examined. 



A specimen in the United States National Museum, taken by Mr. Belding 

 in the Victoria Mountains on February 20, 1883, seems to be referable to this 

 subspecies, whose summer home probably lies to the northward of the United 

 States on or near the Pacific coast, —perhaps in British Columbia, where the 

 type specimens were obtained. 



Pipilo maculatus magnirostris Brewst. 



Mountain Towhee. 



Pipilo maculatus mfirjaloni/x (not Pipilo mer/aloni/x Baird) Belding, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 549 (Miraflores) ; VI. 1883, 348 (Victoria Mts.). A. O. U., 



Check List, 1886, 284, no. 588 a, part. Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d 



ser., II. 1889, 303 (San Jose del Cabo). 

 Pipilo mpgalonyx Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, I. 1886, 409, part 



(Lower Calif.). 



1 Bull Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., III. 1891, 148. 



