564 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



AdvJt female.— Length (skins), 110.5-121 (115.7); wing, 19-51.5 

 (50.1); tail, 47-52.5 (19.7); exposed culmen, 13.5-15 (11.2); tarsus, 

 18.5-19.5 (18.9); middle toe, 11-12.5 (11.9).« 



Central California, including* valley's of the Sacramento and San 

 Joaquin rivers, west slope of Sierra Nevada, and east slope of Coast 

 Range (at least in part), reaching to or near the coast in Monterey, 

 San Luis Obispo, and Los Angeles* counties; north to Shasta and 

 Siskij^ou counties; south to Kern County (Fort Tejon; Kernville; 

 south fork of Kern River), occasionally to Los Angeles County 

 (Pasadena; Santa Monica Mountains). 



[Thryothorns bcivickii^ npilurus (not Troglodytes spilurus Yigors) JjAIRD, Hevieyv 

 Am. Birds, 1864, 122, part. 



\_Thryothorus beincMi.'] Y ar. spilurus Baird, Review Am. Bird.s, 1864, 126, part. 



Thryothorus bewiclii, var. spilurus Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 126, part 

 (Fort Tejon, California). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwav, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 147 part.— Nelson, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 357 

 (Nevada City, California). — Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1877, 113 (Camp 

 Harney, Oregon; descr. nest and eggs). 



Thryothorus hewickii . . . var. spilurus Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 486, part. — 

 Henshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 232 (Tejon Mts. and Walker 

 Basin, s. e. California). 



{^Thryothorus bemckii'] c. spilunis Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 31, part (in 

 synonymy). 



[Thryothorus bewicki] y. sjnlurus Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 422 (Sacra- 

 mento, California). 



Thryothorus bewicki spilurus Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 

 232 (Tejon Mts., Kernville, and Walker Basin, s. e. California). — Coues, 

 Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 73, part.— Townsend (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., X, 1887, 227 (Baird and base of Mount Shasta, n. California, resident). 



Tlhryothorus] blewicki] sjnlurus? Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 278, part. 



Thryothorus bewickii spilurus Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 346, 

 part. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1887, no. 719a, part. — 

 Fisher (A. K.), North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 134, part (Monterey, San 

 Luis Obispo, Tejon and Temploa Mts., etc., California). 



Tlhryothorus^ bewickii spilurus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 551, part. 



Thryothorus spilurus Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 69, part. — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., vi, 1881, 225, part (Eldorado City, Cahfornia). 



Thryomanes bewicki spilurus Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Oct., 1874, 170 (Sac- 

 ramento, California, June); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1880, no. 61a, part. 



Thryoiiianes bevAckii sjnlurus Bailey ( Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 

 446, part. 



Thryomanes bewicki, ft. spilurus Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, Apr., 1878, 65 

 (Calaveras Co. , California, Jan.). — Belding, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 

 402 (Marysville and Calaveras Co., California; Stockton). 



Thryomanes spilurus Belding and Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., i, 1879, 391 

 (Calaveras Co., California). 



Thryomanes bewicki leucogasier c. spilurt(s Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 170, part 

 (in synonymy). 



« Four specimens. 



6 The breeding bird of the greater part of Los Angeles County is, apparently, T. b. 

 charienturus, but several localities are represented by the present form, probably as 

 stragglers. 



