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21. Icteria virens longicauda (Lawr.)- 

 liare. 



22. Vireo pusillus. Coues. 

 Eare. 



23. Laiiius ludovicianus excubitorides (Sw.). 

 Common, 



24. Ampelis cedrorum (Vieill.). 



Very rare ; like Fhainopepla nitens, if feeds ux)Ou the berries of the 

 mistletoe. 



*25. Tachycineta bicolor (Vieill.). 

 Often seen in winter. 



26. Tachycineta thalassina (Sw.). 

 Often seen in winter. 



27. Carpodacus frontalis rhodocolpus (Cab.'). 

 Abundant. 



[The fine series collected by Mr. Beldinf? shows the character of this 

 well-marked race as given in Hist. N. Am. Birds (vol. i, pp. 4G0, 4G8) with 

 wonderful uniformity. In five adult males the forehead, superciliary 

 stripe, cheeks, throat, breast, upper part of abdomen and sides, and in 

 some even the belly and flanks, also, are clear, soft, rose-red ; the rump 

 similar, but brighter — more of a carmine shade; thecri.ssuminall strongly 

 tinged or washed with rose-pink ; the crown, occiput, nape, and whole 

 back overlaid or very strongly tinged with deep Avine-red. — K. li.j 



28. Astragalinus psaltria (Say). 



Common. • 



*28. Chrysomitris pinus (Wils.). 



Only one observed ; this in a flock of A. psaltria, with which, in Cali- 

 fornia, the species frequently associates. 



29. Passerculus rostratus (Cass.). 



[The series of 10 specimens obtained by Mr. Belding I find puzzling 

 in the extreme. The majority of them agree exactly with typical speci- 

 mens from San Diego and other parts of Southern California, while 

 others difler in darker colors, thus forming an approach to P. guitafus, 

 the unique type of which came from San Jose del Cabo. In fact, one 

 specimen (No. 8G292, 9 , Feb. 25) agrees exactly with the latter in col- 

 oration, and I had unhesitatingly referred it to the same species or 

 race; but I now find, after a very close examination of a large amount 

 of material, that it either cannot be guttatus or else the latter is nothing 

 but an abnormally small, slender-billed individual of rostrafm, thus de- 

 stroying the validity of guttatus altogether. Great as is the variation 



