518 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUS, L M. 



SuBSP. CHAR. — Diflering from P. sandwichenfiis alaudintis in decid- 

 edly smaller size ami much darker coloniti oil of the njjper parts, llie 

 latter a[)i)roximatin^- the plumaoe of the same portions in P. beldbujL 



Adult male (type, no. y()(i3;i, Oakland, Cal., January 23, 18S4; W. 

 Bryant) : Above grayish brown, somewhat sutfiised with butty yellow- 

 ish, the pileum and back heavily, the nai)e and rumj) narrowly, streaked 

 with brownish black ; pileum with a quite distinct median stri])e of 

 <lull bull', broken, however, by black streaks ; interscapulars shoM'ing 

 quite distinct light grayish brown edgings. A very distinct sui)ercil- 

 iary strii)e of bright olive-yellow, t!ie yellow purer anteriorly; a malar 

 stripe of light butt, extending upward behind the auriculars ; aiiricu- 

 lars bright brown, inclining to tawny, edged both above and below with 

 black ; lower parts white, the throat minutely and sparsely speckled with 

 the same and bounded on each side by a cuneate stripe of blacl<ish; 

 jugulum, breast, and sides distinctly marked with cuneate streaks of 

 brownish black, averaging much less than .10 of an inch in width. 

 Maxilla blackish, with i)ale brownish tomium ; mandible pale brownish 

 (in skin); tarsi and toes nearly uniforui pale flax-brown. Wing 2.70, 

 tail 2.00, culmen .45, bill from nostril .30, gonys 29, tarsus .80, middle 

 toe .05. 



Adult female (type, no. 06628, same locality and collector, February 

 14, 1884) : Essentially identical in color with the male, but supercilium 

 rather brighter yebow, the malar stripe deeper butt'. Wing 2.50, tail 

 1.95, culmen .45, bill from nostril .29, gonys .28, tarsus .80, middle toe 

 .«>0. 



Hah. — Salt marshes of San Francisco Bay (and perhaps southward 

 along the coast of Southern Oalifornia in winter). 



This form, which has been mixed by authors with P. beldingi, under 

 the names of P. anthinus, P. savanna anthimis, &c., 1 take i)leasure in 

 dedicating to Mr. Walter Bryant, of Oakland, Cal,, who has taken the 

 majority of the spe(!imens now existing in collections, and who has de- 

 voted much study to the birds of San Francisco Bay and vicinity. 



DESC'RIHTIOIV OF MKVKPV IVKW NPKCIEM OF C^KViiiTACEA AI\0 OKE 



WORM FKOITI ARCTIC! AL,AMKA.* 



ByJOIIM MIIUDOCH. 



The following species were obtaiiuMl bj'^ the Point Barrow expedition, 

 under the command of First Lieut. P. H. Ray, Eighth United States In- 

 fantry, acting signal officer. 



This expedition was sent out in 1881 by the Unit^'d States Signal 

 Service to establish one of the stations of the International Polar Con- 

 ference at Point Barrow, and remained for two years in the Arctic re- 



Published by perniisHion of the Chief Sijjnal Officer, U. S. Army. 



