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south to Santa Rosalia Hay and San Fcinando (breeding); east (in 

 winter only?) to the Colorado River (Fort Yuma). 



Culicivora ntricapUla (not of Swainson) Heermann, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. I'hila., 

 ii, 1853, 262, part (San Diego, California). 



PoUoptila iiielanura (not of Lawrence) B.xntD, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 

 382, part (San Diego, California); Cat. N. Am. P.ird.«, 1859, no. 284; Birds 

 N. Am., 1860, 382, part; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 68, part (San Diego).— 

 Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, 1859, 39, part (San Diego). — Cooper, 

 Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 184 (Cajon Pass, California); Orn. Cal., i, 1870, 37,'part 

 (San Diego and north in Sierra Nevada to 39°; Santa Catalina I., Oct.). — 

 Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 284, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 37, part; Birds Col. 

 Val., 1878, 106, part. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwav, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 

 1874, 81, part, pi. 6, fig. 7; iii, 1874, 502, part (San Buenaventura, California) . 



P\_olioptUa] melanura Coves, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d. ed., 1884, 261, part. 



(f) Foliptila (typographical error) melanura Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 

 1883, 529 (Santa Rosalia Bay, Lower California). 



PoUoptila californica Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, Apr., 1881, 103 (River- 

 side, San Bernandino Co., California; coll. AV. Brewster). — Ridgway, Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 29.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 451.— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 753. — Morco.m, 

 Bull. Ridgway Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 57 (San Bernardino Co., California). — 

 Bendire, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 548 (descr. nest and eggs). — Xehr- 

 LiNG, Our Native Birds, i, 1893, 97. — Fisher (A. K.), North Am. Fauna, 

 no. 7, 1893, 144 (Reche Canyon, near San Bernardino, California). — Anthony, 

 Auk, xii, 1895, 143 (San Fernando, Lower California, breeding). — Grinnell, 

 (J.), Pub. 2, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 50 (Los .\ngeles Co., California, resi- 

 dent); Check List Calif. Birds, 1902, 73 (California range). — Swarth, Condor, 

 iv, 1902, 86 (descr. winter plumage). — Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds 

 W. U. S., 1902, 466. 



Plolioptilal californica Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 570. — Hell.mayr, 

 Tierreich, 18 Lief., 1903, 23. 



POLIOPTILA LEMBEYEI (Gundlach). 

 CUBAN GNATCATCHER. 



Adult male. — Above uniform slate-gray; wings dull l)lackish slate or 

 slate-black with pale gray edgings, these broader and paler on tertials; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail black, the outermost rectri.K with terminal 

 two-thirds (approximately) of outer web and between terminal third 

 and half of inner web white, the next with less of white, the third 

 broadly tipped with white; a narrow orbital ring of white; loral, 

 auricular, suborbital, and malar regions and under parts very pale 

 gray or grayish white, becoming pure white on abdomen; a curved 

 black line beginning near posterior angle of eye and extending thence 

 backward and downward, between the deep gray of occiput and hind- 

 neck and pale gray of auricular region; maxilla black; mandible gray- 

 ish (pale bluish gray in life?) ba.sally, blackish terminally; legs and 

 feet dusky (in dried skin.s); length (skins), 100-108 (103.5); wing, 40- 



