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Mr. Beliling and Mr. Frazar agree in considering this a rare bird in the Cape 

 Region. Mr. Frazar took only five specimens, two at La Paz on January 11, 

 one at Triunfo on April 21, and two at San Jose del Cabo on September 12 

 and 22, respectively. At tlie place last named two others were seen, one on 

 September 18, the other on October 4. Mr. Belding also obtained two at La 

 Paz and, according to Mr. Bryant, a third at Todos Santos. The bird has not 

 lieen reported horn anywhere north of La Paz on the Peninsula, and only 

 three specimens are known to have occurred in California, two at Santa Cruz, 

 and one at San Diego. My Lower California examples appear to be typical 

 representatives of notahilis. Only one of them is at ail yellowish beneath, 

 and in this the yellow is merely a faint tinge. 



Tlie summer range of 5. n. notahilis has not been definitely traced, but it 

 probably lies chiefly in the interior of western North America, north of the 

 L^nited States. Mr. Chapman has recorded ^ two specimens taken at Ducks, 

 British Columbia, in August, but this date is not sufficiently early to prove 

 that they were on their breeding-grounds. Mr. Xelson refers the form which 

 occurs in Alaska to novehoracensis,'^ but Mr. Grinnell has since reported ^ that 

 notahilis is moderately common in summer in the Kotzebue Sound Region, and 

 Dr. Bishop has taken it in the Yukon valley.* 



Geothlypis tolmiei (Towns.). 

 Macgillivray's Warbler. 



Geothlypis macgilliirayi Baird, Rev. Amer. Birds, pt. L 1865,227 (Cape St. Lucas). 



Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1SS3, 536 (Cape Region). Bryant, Proc. 



Calif. Acad. Sei., 2d ser., II. 1889, 310 (Cape Region). 

 G.{eothlypis] rnacgillivrai/i Bryant, Zoe, II. 1891, 192 (San Jose del Cabo). 



Mr. Belding found Macgillivray's Warbler only in "mountain canons," and 

 marks it " rare," but Mr. Frazar met with it in December at San Jose del 

 Rancho, "where it is certainly a common winter resident." The latter ob- 

 server's collection contains eight specimens taken in November at this place, 

 five shot in November, and one on April 20, at Triunfo, one killed on Novem- 

 ber 15 at Santiago, and a bird obtained on February 16 at La Paz. Mr. Bryant 

 records the species only from Tia Juana, where " it occurs as a migrant," and 

 from Comondu, where a female was shot in March, 1888. 



G. tolmiei is merely a migratory visitor to the southern part of California, but 

 it breeds sparingly in the central and northern counties, chiefly in or near the 

 mountains, and commonly in Oregon and northward into British Columbia. 

 In winter it goes as far south as Panama. 



1 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, III. 1890, 15L 



2 Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 204. 



3 Pacif. Coast Avifauna, no. 1, 1900, 56, 57. 

 * N. Amer. Fauna, no. 19, 1900, 91. 



