520 BULLETIK 50, UlSriTED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Heleodijtcs brunneicdpUlus hrydnti, Anthony, Auk, xi, July, 1894, 211, 212 (San 

 Telmo, Lower California; coll. A. W. Anthony); xii, 1895, 142 (San Fer- 

 nando, Lower California; habits; notes) . — American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Check List, 2d ed., 1895, 166, no. 713rt.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d 

 ed., 1896, 609.— Mearns, Auk, xix, 1902, 143, 145 (diagnosis; range). 



H\_e.leodytes\ b[_runneicapiUus] 6r(/«n/i Bailey (Florence M.), TIandb. Birds W. 

 U. S., 1902, 443. 



CampylorhyncJnts brnnneicapillus (not of Lafresnaye) Baird, Review Ain. Birds, 

 1864, 99, part (San Diego, California). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., i, 1870, 61, part 

 (San Diego). — Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 43, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 63, 

 part; Birds Col. Yal., 1878, 156, part (San Diego). — Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 132, part (San Diego). — Ridgway, 

 Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 56, part. — Emerson, Bull. Cal. Ac. Sci., no. 7, 

 1887, 430 (Poway Valley, San Diego Co., California). 



[^Campylorhynchus] brunneicapilhis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 85, part. 



Clampylorhynchus] brunneicapilhis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 275, 

 part. — RiDGWAY', Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 547, jaart. 



(?) CampylorhynclnDi atfinis (not of Xantus?) Anthony, Zoe, iv, 1893, 245 (San 

 Pedro Martir Mts., Lower California). 



HELEODYTES BRUNNEICAPILLUS AFFINIS (Xantus). 



ST. LUCAS CACTUS WREN. 



Mo.stlike 11. 1). hryantl but much paler, with under parts less heavily 

 and more sparsely marked with black; color of pileum and hindneck 

 more reddish brown (mummy brown to chestnut-brown), the feathers 

 often with paler terminal small spots or streaks; all the rectrices, ex- 

 cept middle pair, with distinct white bars on both webs; under parts 

 more purely white (distinctl}" ting-ed with butf posteriorly only in fresh 

 autumnal plumage), the ])lack marking on lower parts of body broadly 

 guttate, those on throat and chest but little larger (never large and 

 confluent as is often the case in other subspecies), ]>ut of different 

 (irregular and variable) form. 



Adult male.—ljQngt\\ (skins), 172-197 (182.8); wing. 80.5-88.5 (85.3); 

 tail, 72-81 (77.5); exposed culmen, 21-24.5 (23.5); tarsus, 27.5-30 (29); 

 middle toe, 18-21 (19.7). « 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 170-190 (181.5); wing, 76-88 (81); 

 tail, 71-79 (74.9); exposed culmsn, 22-24 (23.1); tarsus, 27-30 (28.4); 

 middle toe, 18-22 (19.4). ^^ 



Cape district of Lower California (Cape 8t. Lucas; San -lose del 

 Cabo; La Paz; San Telmo Valley). 



Cmnpylorhynchus a ffinis X.ANT\js, Proc. Ac. Nat: Sci. Phila., 1859, 298 (Cape St. 

 Lucas, Lower California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Baird, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1859, 301, 303; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 100.— Sclater, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 162 ("California.")— Elliot, Illustr. New and Unfig. Birds N. 

 Am., i, 1869, pi. 4.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 62 (Cape St. Lucas).— Coues, 

 Check List, 1873, no. 44; 2<l ed., 1882, no. 64; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 154, 

 footnote. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 133, 

 pi. 8, fig. 6. — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 57. — Belding, Proc. 



" Ten Bitecimens. ^ Eight specimens. 



