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CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



DIMENSIONS OF GEOTHLYPIS BELDINGI, FROM COMONDU. 



277. Icteria virens longicauda (Lawr.) 



Long-tailed Chat. — Bare at the Cape region according 

 to Mr. Belding. In thickets along the gulches east of San 

 Quintin, Mr. Anthony found it common under 800 feet 

 elevation. At Comondu they were common, and nesting in 

 the bushes of the creek. The Mexicans call the birds 

 " arriero,'' from the resemblance of its whistle to that made 

 by a mule driver. When shown a male G. heldhigi they 

 said it was an " arriero," but when the chat and warbler 



