686 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Sept., 



Toxostoma crissale Henry. Crissal Thrasher. 



Two from the Cocopah Mountains. 



"About five seen altogether. Occasionally one would sing a little, 

 but they were only beginning. Only found in the foothill chapparal 

 above high-water mark, and ver}- shy and cunning in their terres- 

 trial manoeuvres to outwit the man with a gun." 

 Heleodytes brunneioapillus couesi (Sharpe). 



Specimens from various points along the Hardy river from its mouth 

 to the Cocopah Mountains. 



"Frequenting both the arid foothills and the mesquite l^ottoms." 



Salpinctes obsoletus (Say). Rock Wren. 



Six specimens from the Cocopahs and one from the Colorado river 

 near the Mexican boundary in southeastern California. 



"A wonderful member of a wonderful family. Its life history, who 

 can tell it? Sprite, sylph, orpheus of the barren mountains, what man 

 could put thy likeness on paper or reveal to the reader thy inmost life? 

 Now that the quest is over and I see seven skins lying side by side in 

 the tray named and numbered, I trow they will be the last of that 

 happy family to serve the demands of science." 



Troglodytes aedon parkmanii (Aud.). Parkman's Wren. 



One from Bruce's ranch. I follow Mr. Ridgway in uniting 'park- 

 manii and aztecus. 



"A few, two or three, were seen at Mount ]\Iajor." 

 Telmatodytes palustris paludicola (Baird). Tul^ Wren. 



Two specimens obtained at the mouth of the Hardy. 



"They were numerous near our first camp on the Hardy, keeping 

 close to the tules along the river, bank. Very few seen farther up." 



Telmatodytes palustris plesius (Oberholser). Western Marsh Wren. 



One example of this race, associated with the above. 

 "No others noted." 



Auriparus flaviceps (Sund.). Verdin. 



Specimens from the mouth of the Hardy, Bruce's ranch and the 

 Cocopahs. 



"Uniformly distributed in the mesquite. One was caught in its 

 gourd-like roosting nest. It sat with its tail projecting from the open- 

 ing, so as to void all excrement on the ground during the night and keep 

 its winter quarters cleanly." 



Segulus calendula (Linn.). Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 



One specimen. 



"Many seen on both stream-;." 



