NEW BIRDS FROM LOWER CALIFORNIA. iV) 



Sialia mexicana anabelse snbsp. now 

 Anabel's Bluebird. 



Subsp. char. — Differing from S. mexicana in slightly 

 larger form, in the bay of the breast, ^yhich is divided by 

 the blue of the throat, restricting it to patches on the sides 

 of the breast, and in the almost entire absence of bay on 

 scapulae. 



Adult 6 . (Type, No. 2548, coll. of A. W. A., from San 

 Pedro Mountain, Lower California, April 28, 1889). Above, 

 rich azure blue, a faint touch of chestnut on some of the 

 scapular and dorsal feathers. Throat, neck and central 

 breast, azure blue, extending to the middle of the belly, 

 giving phice to the bluish white of the lower belly and un- 

 der tail coverts. A patch of chestnut on sides of breast 

 extending half way down the sides. 



Adult S . (Type, No. 2547, coll. of A. W. A., from San 

 Pedro Mountain, May 1, 1889). Head and neck above, 

 pale blue wdth pearly reflections. Dorsal patch, pale rusty 

 brown. Rump, pale azure blue. Breast and sides, rusty 

 brown. Throat, sides of head and belly, gray. Crissum 

 with blue wash. 



Differs from the females of S. mexicana in my collection 

 in the more pronounced blue of the head and larger size. 



Habitat. — Mountains of Lower Calilornia, Mount Lassen, 

 Cal., Puget Sound, Utah and Nevada. 



Named for my wdfe, Anabel Anthony. 



From the series of thirty adult birds before me I am able 

 to find but three that can not be immediately referred to 

 one race or the other; these are: No. 53319, coll. U. S. 

 Nat. Museum, Carson City, Nevada; No. 82589, coll. Nat. 

 Museum, Marin County, Cal.; and No. 821, coll. A. AV. 

 Anthony, Washington County, Oregon. These are all male 

 birds and midway between the two forms, having the bay of 

 the breast scarcely divided by the blue, and but little rusty 

 coloring on the scapulae. Three National Museum speci- 



