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Sp. char. — Similar to the darker form of P. sandwichensis (i, e. hry- 

 anti), but much darker, with decidedly heavier dark spotting on lower 

 parts, the bill larger and more elongated. 



Adult male (type^o. 90G13, San Diego, Cal., March 9, 1884; L. Beld- 

 ing): Above dull grayish olive, heavily streaked with brownish black, 

 the streaks narrowest across nape and on rump; interscapulars with 

 scarcely a trace of lighter edgings, and crown without indication of 

 lighter median stripe; outer webs of tertials and greater wing-coverts 

 tinged with brown, the primaries edged with light olive-green. Snpra- 

 loral line, extending to above the eye, dull olive-yellow; distinct malar 

 stripe dull buffy white, bordered above by a blackish stripe from rictus 

 along lower edge of cheeks and auriculars, and below by a similar stripe, 

 narrower anteriorly, widening posteriorly; auriculars dull olive grayish, 

 indistinctly streaked with lighter and darker, the up})er edge with 

 dusky prevailing, and slightly contrasted with an indistinct postticular 

 stripe of streaked dusky and light olive-grayish. Lower parts white, 

 the whole throat speckled with black, the jugulum, breast, sides, and 

 flanks heavily streaked with black, these streaks averaging nearly .10 of 

 an inch in width ; entire abdomen, anal region, and crissum immaculate. 

 Maxilla black, with pale brownish tomium ; inaudible pale brownish (in 

 skin), darker terminally ; tarsi pale brown, toes deep brown. Wing 2.70, 

 tail 2.00, culmen .52, bill from nostril .35, gonys .31, tarsus .80, middle 

 toe .GO. 



Adult female (type, No. 0GG14, same locality, &c,): Exactly like the 

 male, but with a very slight indication of a median stripe on the crown. 

 Wing 2.55, tail 2.00, culmen .50, bill from nostril .31, gonys .30, tarsus 

 .78, middle toe .59. 



Hab. — Salt marshes along the coast of Southern California and Pacific 

 side of Lower California, south to Todos Santos Island, north to at 

 least Santa Barbara. 



Passerculus sandv^richensis bryanti, subsp. nov. 



Passerculus anthinm, Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 445 ; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, uo. 334 



(not of BoNAP. 1853 *).— Cooper, Orn. Cal. I. 1870, 183, et AucT. (part). 



Passerculus savanna, var. atithinus, CoUES, Key. 1872, 136 (part). — B. B. & R. 



Hist. N. Am. B. I. 1874, 539, pi. xxiv, fig. 10, et AucT. 

 Passerculus sandcicensis anthlnus, Coues, 2(1 Check List, 1882, no. 228, et AuCT. 



(part). 



* Bonaparte's P. anthinus was based npon a specimen from Kodiak, Alaska, from 

 which locality the National Museum has received a considerable nnmber of speci- 

 mens. Comparing these with Bonaparte's description, it is found that some of them 

 fit sufficiently well to leave no doubt as to what Bonaparte had in hand. We must 

 therefore transfer anthinus, Bp., to alavdinus, Bp., as a pure synonym, the two names 

 having been based on somewhat different plumages of the same bird. At the same 

 time, we must admit that the authors of "History of North American Birds" were 

 mistaken in supposing (vol. I. p. 539, foot-note) that the localities of the two supposed 

 species as given by Bonaparte — /. e. California for alaudinus and Kodiak for anthinus — 

 had been transposed. In further explanation, it may be stated that while these two 

 supposed species were described in the same number of the " Comptes Rendus" (vol. 

 xxvii, Dec. 18.53), alaudinus is given on page 918 and anthinus on page 919, the former 

 thus having, according to some rulings, priority. 



