BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 723 



Adult female.— Length (sldns), 105-119 (112); wini?, 107-117 

 (111.9); tail, 36-39.5 (37.1); exposed culmen, 4.5-5.5 (5.1); tarsus, 

 10-11.5 (10.8); middle toe, 7-8 (7.5). « 



Western United States, British Columbia (Nisqually; Goldstream; 

 LakeLaHache; New Westminster; Vancouver Island; Sicamous) and 

 southern Alaska (Revillagii^edo Island; Boca de Quadra; Chickaniin 

 River; Broadheld Canal; Thomas Bay), east to IMontana (Silver, j\lis- 

 soula County), western Nevada (Pyramid Lake Reservation), and New 

 Mexico(?); south to Lower California fSan Jose del Cabo; San Pedro 

 Martir Mountains; between San Rafael and San Pedro Martir Moun- 

 tains; Tia Juana; Salton River), and through Mexico, in States of 

 ^lorelos (Cuernavaca), Jalisco (San Sebastian), Tlaxcala (Laguna del 

 Rosario), Mexico (Valley of Mexico), Puebla, Vera Cruz (Rio Seco, 

 near Cordova; Motzorongo), and Oaxaca (Guichicovi) to liighlands 

 of Guatemala (Mazatenango; Alotenango; Coban; Dueuas; Raxche) 

 and Honduras.^ 



Cypcdus raurii Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 148 (Ft. Van- 

 couver, Columbia River). 



Cypcdus vauxii Townsend, Narrative, 1839, 348. 



Chsetura vauxii De Kay, Zool. N. Y., ii, 1844, 36.— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 145; ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), 145, pi. 18; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 



1859, no. 110.— Kennerly, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, pi. 18, 

 fig. 2 (no text). — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 



1860, 165 (Straits of Fuca, Washington).— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 

 282; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, 100 (monogr.); 1865, 611 (monogr.; crit.); 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1867, 133.— Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 351 (Coast Range, near 

 Santa Clara, California); Auk, iv, 1887, 92 (Ventura Co., California). — Hen- 

 shaw. Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 256 (Tejon Mts., California).- 

 RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 188; ix, 1886, 158 (Laguna del 

 Rosario, Tlaxcala; crit.); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 352. — Sumichrast, 

 La Naturaleza, v, 1881, 250 (Rio Seco, near Cordova, Valley of Mexico). — 

 Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 158 (Laguna del Rosario, 

 Tlaxcala).— Scott, Auk, iii, 1886, 429 (Santa Catalina Mts., 3,000-4,000 ft., 

 Arizona, Oct.). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 424.— Bryant (W. E.), Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., ser. 2, 1889, 288 (bet. 

 San Rafael and San Pedro Martir, Lower California). — Fannin, Check 

 List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 30 (e. and w. of Cascade Range on mainland). — 

 Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893, 44 (Nisqually, Goldstream, and 

 Lake La Hache, Brit. Columbia). — Fisher (A. K.), North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 

 1893, 55 (Olancha, Owens Lake, Yosemite Valley, Three Rivers, and Visalia, 

 California).— Anthony, Zoe, iv, 1893, 236 (Tia Juana, etc., San Pedro Martir 

 Mts., Lower California). — Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 183, 

 pi. 1, fig. 26 (egg).— Dawson, Wilson Bull., no. 10, 1896, 4 (Lake Chelan, 

 Okanogan Co., e. Washington, breeding); Auk, xiv, 1897, 175 (Okanogan Co., 



a Ten specimens. 



b Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Ain., Aves, ii, 1894, 376. Possibly the specimen 

 from Honduras and some of those from Guatemala referred to C. vauxii by the authors 

 of the "Biologia" are C. richmondi, as are most certainly those from Nicaragua and 

 Costa Rica. 



