BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMP:R1CA. ()5U 



Cather})ts )iu:iica)itis . . . xnr coitspersitH Cov eh, Check J^ist, 1873, App. p. 125. — 

 Yahkow and Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Siirv., 1874, 9 (Toquer- 

 ville, Utah; liabit.«; notes). — Henshaw, Kep. Orn. Spec. "Wheeler's Surv., 

 1874, 41 (Utah, resident); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 181, part 

 (Toquerville, Utah; Colorado; habits). 



[Cntlwrpets me.ricaiius.'] ft. coiiKpcrsui^ Riduwav, r)rn. 40th I'arallcl, 1H77, 420 

 (Nevada and Utah, resident; habits; song). 



(\tfherpex mexiccmus, /?. comperm.'i Ridgway, Field and Forest, iii, May, 1877, lOG 

 (Colorado). 



Cafherpes vic.riraniia coitxpersKs Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan. 1875, 10, 20 

 (Carson City and East Humboldt Mts., Nevada) ; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 59a, part. — Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 1<>4, part; Check List, 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 67, part.— Minot, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 181 (Manitou, 

 Colorado; descr. nest and eggs), 225 (habits, etc.). — American Oknitiiolo- 

 GisTs' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 717o, part. — Nehrlinc;, Our Native 

 Birds, i, 1893, 139, part, pi. 9. — Fisher (A. K.), North American Fauna, 

 no. 7, 1893, 133 (Panamint Mts., etc., s. e. California). — Cooke; Bull. 37. 

 Col. Agric. Coll., 1897, 120 (Colorado, resident). — Grinnell (J.), Pacific 

 Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 68 (s. e. California; desert ranges east of Sierra 

 Nevada). — Oberholser, Auk, xx, 1903, 198 (diagnosis; range). 



ClatJierpes'] mlexicanus'] coiispersiiH Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 276, 

 part.— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 445, part, pi. 



C^atherpes'] mexicanus conspersus Riugwav, ]Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 549, part. 



Catherpes mexicaiius . . . var. Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am, 

 Birds, i, 1874, pi. 8, tig. 4.« 



CATHERPES MEXICANUS PUNCTULATUS Ridgway. 

 DOTTED CANYON WREN. 



Simihir in small size to 61 m. con,^j?ersas, but decidedly darker (inter- 

 mediate ill coloration between 61 m. m ex ica/u/ s nnd C. tn. albijronb). 



Adult ?;^«^d.— Length (skins), 120-137 (130.6); wing, 65.5-62.5 

 (59.4); tail, 47.5-54.5 (51.6); exposed culmen, 19-21.5 (20.5); tarsus, 

 17.5-19 (18.6); middle toe, 12.5-14 (13.4). '^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 119-129 (125); wing, 56-56.5 (56.2); 

 tail, 46.5-50 (47.8); exposed culmen, 20''; tarsus, 17-18 (17.7); middle 

 toe, 13-14 (13.5).^^ 



California, except southeastern and extreme southern portions; 

 north to Butte, Shasta, and Napa counties, south to westt'rn portion 

 of Riverside County (Elsinore), and northern part of Kern Count}' 

 (Kernville). 



Troglodytes mexicanus (not Thrijothorus mexicanus Swainson) IIeermann, Journ. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1853, 263 (Cosumnes and Calavenxi; rivers, Cali- 

 fornia); Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 41 (do.). — Cassin, Illustr. 

 Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1854, 173, part (Cosumnes and Calaveras rivers, Cali- 

 fornia). 



« The specimen figured is the type of C. m. conspersus, from Nevada, and not from 

 Mexico, as erroneously stated in the text. 

 ''Seven specimens. 

 <^One specimen. 

 (i Three specimens. 



