BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



201) 



(55.2): tiiil, 48-53 (51.2); expo.sed culmou, !t-l(» (!>.(>): tursus. ls-i;».5 

 (18.8); middle toe, 9-10.5 (9.6).^' 



Central and southern Ciilifornia and northern J^ower California; 

 north to Stoekton and Sacramento, east to southwestern Nevada (Ash 

 Meadows); breeding southward to the San Pedro Martir ^lountains 

 and San Fernando, Low(M- California: in winter (oidy ^) southward to 

 th(^ Capc^ district of Lowei' CiUifornia (San Jose del Calx^, August 30 

 to N()\('nd)er; Triunfo. Ai)rih Santa Marj^-arita Ishiiid. winter). 



]'ire(> pusilhis Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. 8ci. Phila., l.SfitJ, 76 (Cape San Luca!^, Lower 

 California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Check List, 187:^, no. V.V2, part; 2il ed., 

 1882, no. 184, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 531, part.— B.viiu). Review Am. 

 Birds, 1866, 360, part (Cape San Lucas, San Jose, and Sierra San Gertrude, 

 Lower California; San Diego, California). — Cooper, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 186 

 (near San Diego); Orn. Cal., 1870, 124, part (San Diego; Sacramento; 

 Cape San Lucas). — Elliot, Illustr. New and Unfig. N. Am. Birds, pt. i, 

 1869, pi. 7.— Baiki), Bkewkk, and KiixavAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, :^9I, 

 part, pi. 17, tig. 14; iii, 1S74, 507 (San Buenaventura, California; descr. nest 

 and eggs). — Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vi, 1874, 171 (Sacramenta, Cali- 

 • fornia, June); Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 451 (do.); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 146, part.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 236 (Los 

 Angeles, June; Santa Barbara, July; Fort Tejon, Aug.). — Belding, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 410 (Stockton, etc., California; habits); v, 1883, 

 537 (La Paz, Lower California). — Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 

 302, part.— Brewster, Bull. ]Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 176 (Cape district. 

 Lower California, autumn, winter, and spring). — Bailey (Florence M.), 

 Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 400, part. 



TT^rw] pusillKs Cooper, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 17, in text (Cuyamaca Mis., San 

 Diego Co., California). 



Vireo belln pusillus Ridgway, Prot-. U. S. Nat. ^lus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 354, 

 part. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 633a, part. — 

 Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 184 (Ventura Co., California, Jan.). — ^Iokco.m, 

 Bull. Ridgway Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 51, i)art (Cohuilla Valley and San 

 Bernardino, s. California). — Grinnell (J.), Pub. ii, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 

 44 (Los Angeles Co., California; summer resid. in lowlands and foothills). — 

 Oberholsek, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, 1903, 17, IS, in text (jiart). 



V[jireo'] Iirllii /nisll/ii.^ Kiixjwav, Man. X. Am. I'>irds, 1SS7, 478, })art. 



« Eight specimens. 



Californian specimens compare in aver^-ge measurements with those from liu' Cape 

 district of Lower California as follows: 



Three adult females from Ciipe ilistrict 55.2 .'.i». 



Five adult females from California •''5. •_> "•! . 



19 



Middle 

 toe. 



II. 7 

 9.y 



There seems to ])e no difference in coloration hctwccii the two scries. 

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