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CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 

 LIST OF SPECIMENS COLLECTED. 



Collector's No. 



2395 

 2397 

 2398 

 2422 

 2423 

 2443 

 2444 

 2445 

 2534 

 2630 



2396 

 2446 

 2449 

 2450 



Sex and 

 age. 



Date, 1886. 



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January 6. 

 January 6. 

 January 6. 

 January 23 

 January 23 

 January 29 

 January 29 

 January 29 

 March 4. 

 Janiiary 29 



I Average.. 



9 «'^/.j January 6. 



? C((Z. January 29 



$ orZ. January 29 



? rt(Z. January 29 



Average . . 



Wing. 



mm. 

 65 



66.5 



67 



69 



68 



68 



68 



66 



71.5 



68 



<i.j 



66 

 64 

 63 

 64 



64.2 



Tail 

 feathers 



Tail. 



mm. 

 48 

 49 

 48.556 

 52 



mm 



52 



54 



49 

 51 

 52 



48 

 53 

 52 



50.2 



50 

 45 

 46 

 47 



47 



54 



57 

 57 

 54 



58.5 

 57 



55.5 



55 

 50 

 54 

 53.5 



53 1 



Middle 

 toe. 



mm. 

 14 

 13 

 14 

 13 

 14 

 14 

 14 



14.5 

 14.5 

 15 



14 



14 

 15 

 IS 

 13 



13 7 



No. 2534 — Ferruginous shade on breast and abdomen. 



No. 2396. — Feathers worn off breast from setting. Length, 152 mm.; ex- 

 tent, 217 mm. 



No. 2446. — Contained four very large ova. 



29. Thryothorus brevicaudus. 



Guadalupe Wren. — This rare local species has become 

 much restricted in distribution and perhaps m number since 

 Dr. Palmer obtained the only two known specimens in 1875. 

 I am informed that no collecting was done at that time 

 among the pines on the northern portion of the island, in 

 which place alone was I able to discover any trace of this 

 species; and as no collecting was done by Dr. Palmer among 

 the palms (an unlikely place for the birds to be found), I 

 infer that the two original specimens must have been found 

 toward the central portion of the island. 



The birds were timid rather than shy, being alarmed by 

 tlie crushing of dry branches as I worked my way amid-t 

 the dense windfalls of pines, where they were found, they 



