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Auriparus flavice.ps (not Aegilhalus Jlaviceps Sundevall) Baird, Rev. Amer. Birls, 

 pt. I. 1864, 85, StJ, part (crit. ; Cape St. Lucas). Cooper, Orn. CaL, 1870, 

 51, part (Cape St. Lucas). Coues, Check List, 1873, 11, no. 37, part; 2d 

 ed., 1882, 29, no. 56, part. Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwat, Hist. N. Amer. 

 Birds, I. 1874, 112, 113, part (breeding at Cape St. Lucas ; nesting habits). 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, I. 1880, 59, part (breeding 

 at Cape St. Lucas ; descr. male from Cape St. Lucas). Ridgway, Nom. N. 

 Amer. Birds (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 21), 1881, 14, no. 50, part. Belding, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 535 (Cape Region), 547 (breeding at La Paz) ; 

 VI. 1883, 345 (Cape Region). A. O. U., Check List, 1S8G, 338, no. 746, part. 

 Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 318 (tlirougliout Penin- 

 sula). TowNSEXD, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIIL 1890, 137 (Cape St. Lucas). 



\^Auripar as] Jlaviceps Coues, Key N. Amer. Birds, 1872, 82, part (Lower Calif.). 



A.\iiriparus] Jlaviceps Coues, Key N. Amer. Birds, 4th ed., 1894, 269, part (Lower 

 Calif.). RiDGWAY, Man. N. Amer. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 565 part (Lower 

 Calif.). 



Auriparus Jlaviceps In mprocephalus Oberholser, Auk, XIV. 1897, 390-394 (orig. 

 descr. ; type from Cape St. Lucas). A. 0. U. Comm., Auk, XVI. 1899, 126, 

 no. 746 a. 



\_Auriparus flavicepsl var. tamprocephala Dubois, Synop. Avium, fasc. VII. 1901, 

 468 (Basse-Californie). 



Mr. Bryant says that this Verdin is " a common species throughout the 

 peninsula," but he adds that Mr. Belding doubts if it occurs " north of lat. 32° 

 unless on the eastern side." ^[r. Anthony reports it as " quite common in all 

 of the country south of San Quintin," but he does not mention meeting with 

 it anywhere to the northward of that place.i These statements were made, of 

 course, before the subspecies lamjyrocejjhalus had been separated by Mr. Ober- 

 holser, who gives its habitat as " California inferior australis," adding " no 

 specimens from the upper half of Lower California have been examined." 

 Mr. Bryant, however, in a previous paper,^ in which he proposed to distinguish 

 the* same bird under a name which has been since shown by Mr. Oberholser 

 to be untenable, refers to it apparently all the specimens of the Verdin which 

 he had " collected in Lower California," as well as others from Los Angeles 

 and San Diecro counties, California. 



Mr. Frazar found Baird's Verdin abundant everywhere in the Capa Region 

 except on the Sierra de la Laguna, where none were met with. It was breed- 

 ing at La Paz in March, at Triunfo in April, and apparently at San Jose del 

 Caho in November, for on the third of that month Mr. Frazar found two nests 

 about half completed on which the birds were busily at work. A week later 

 another Verdin was noticed carrying feathers in its bill, doubtless for the lining 

 of its nest, and still later (on November 17) a fourth was observed at Santiago 

 collecting building material. 



1 Auk, XIT. 1895, 143. 



2 Zee, I. 1890, 14y. 



