BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMKKKA. 523 



Dcsort rcjiion iirar ^oiilliwcslci-ii liordci- of I'liitrd Shitf-^; from 

 lower lvio(ri:in(l(' \'alk'_v to soiitlicin ( alifornia ( Inyo. San Brniardiiio. 

 Kern. Riverside, Oraiioe. Los Anoeles. and interior of San Dicod. 

 counties), and northern Lower California (Seven Wells): noitli (o 

 soutliern Utaii (St. Georoc: Beaverdain Mountains), and southern 

 Nevada (Vegas Valley; Bitter Springs; between Virgin and Muddy 

 rivers); south into northern Mexico (more northern portions of States 

 of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, and Sonora." 



Pkolaptcs hrunneicapiUus (not of Lafresnaye) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., v, 

 1852, 114 (Texas).— Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 18ri2, :)27 

 (Texas).— Cassin, lUustr. Birds Gal., Tex., etc., 1854, 156, pi. 25. 

 Cfimivilorliiinchus hrunneicapiUus Sclater, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, ].S5(i, 

 264, part (monogr.); Gat. Am. Birds, 1862, 17, part (New Mexico).— 

 Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 8:i5; Gat. N. Am- BirJs, 18.59, 

 no. 262; Rep. U. 8. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 1.'3 (Rin<r<,'()ld 

 Barracks, Texas; Monterey, Nuevo Leon; Fort Yuma, Galifornia); Review 

 Am. Birds, 1864, 99, part (except locality San Diego).— Heermanx, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 41 (Golorado Desert, bet. Tejon Pa.«s 

 and Mojave R.; habits; descr. nest).— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 483 (Eagle Pass, 

 Texas, n. e. to Nueces R.).— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 77 

 (Arizona); 1868, 8.S (do); Gheck List, 1873, no. 43; 2d ed., 1882, no. 63; 

 Birds C^ol. Val., 1878, 1.56.— Bitcher, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 149 

 (Laredo, Texas).— Cooper, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 183, in text ( Fort :\rojave, 

 Galifornia); Orn. Gal., 1870, 61, part.— Merriam, Sixth Ann. Rep. V. S. 

 Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1872, 1873, 713 (Utah).— Yarrow and Hexshaw, Rep. 

 Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 9 (St. George, s. Utah, Oct.).— Hexshaw, 

 Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 41 (St. George, Utah), 100 (Gila R., 

 Arizona; habits); 1876, 23 (near Kernville, Galifornia) ; Zool. Exp. W. 

 100th Merid., 1875, 178 (Nevada; St. George, Utah; localities in Arizona; 

 s. w. New Mexico; habits).— Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwav, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 132, pi. 8, fig. 5; iii, 1874, 503 (s. Utah; s. Nevada).— Ridgway, 

 Bull. Essex Inst, vii, 1875, 35 (s. Nevada) ; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. .56.— 

 Salvin and Godmax, Biol. Gentr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 67, part.— Hoffman, 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., vi, 1881, 214 (s. Nevada).— Holter- 

 iioFF, Orn. and Ool., vi, — , 11 (breeding habits, descr. nest and eggs, etc.).— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 713.— Evermann, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 185 (Ventura Co., California, summer resid.)— Lloyd, Auk, 

 iv, 1887, 297 (Tom Green Co., Texas, resident).— Morcom, Bull. Ridgw. Orn. 

 Club, no. 2, 1887, 54 (s. California).— Cooke, Bird Misrr. Miss. Val., 1888, 

 270 (San Angelo and Tom Green counties, Texas).— Attwater, Auk, ix, 

 1892, 342 (San Antonio, Texas, resident). — Nehrling, Our Native Binls, 

 etc., i, 1893, 135, pi. 4, fig. 2.— Allen. Bull. Am. Mus. X. H.. v, 1893, 41 

 (Oputo, n. Sonora). 

 [CiwipiilorluinchuH] hruvneivapiUm Coves, Key X. Am. Birds, 1872. S5, part. — 

 ScL.\TERand Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 5, part. 



« Rpecimens referable to the present form, or at least nearer to it than to H. h. 

 ihscuriis, have been examined from the following ^Mexican localities: 

 Tammdipax. — Camargo; Nuevo Laredo. 

 Nuera Lam. — Monterey; Rodriguez; Santa Gatarina. 

 Couhuiht. — Sabinas. 

 Ch ill Hftli nil. — ( 'asas ( J ran( les. 

 Sonora. — llennosilla; Oposura. 



