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Rocky Mountain district of United States and Sierra Madre of 

 northwestern :Mexico; breeding from Colorado to New ^Mexico, 

 western Texas (Davis Mountains), and Arizona (west to San Fran- 

 cisco Mountains), and southward through States of Chihuahua « 

 (Colonia Garcia; Pinos AUos), and Durango (El Salto), nortliwestern 

 Mexico; during migration southwestward to southern California 

 (Tulare, Kern, San Bernardino, San Die^-o, Riverside, Los Angeles,^ 

 and Santa Clara counties), and southern Utah (Kanab) and Nevada 

 (Charleston Peak), southward to southern Sonora (Alamos, January 

 to MsiTch) and Zacatecas (Valparaiso :Mountains, December), east- 

 ward to western Texas (Concho and Kendall counties), accidentally 

 to Iowa and Minnesota. 



Stalia nccidentalis ^not of Townsend) Woodhouse, Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni, 

 and Col. 11., 1853, 08, part (New Mexico).— Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 vii, 1855, 310 (New Mexico).— Kennerly, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., iv, 1856, 

 10 (75 m. w. Albuquerque, New Mexico), 11 (Pueblo Creek and Camp 110, 

 New Mexico).— Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., v, 1881, 332, part. 

 Sialia viexicana occidentalis Ridgway, Auk, xi, Apr., 1894, 154, part (Colorado; 



New Mexico; Arizona; western Texas; Chihuahua; Sonora; Sinaloa). 

 Sialia mexicana (not of Swainson) Baird, Rep. Ives' Colorado Exped., 1857-58, pt. 

 V, 5 (Fort Yuma, California); Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 223, part 

 (localities in New Mexico); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 159, part; Rep. U. S. 

 and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 9, part (Gila R., Arizona); Review 

 Am. Birds, 18G4, G3, part (Fort Fillmore, New Mexico).— Kennerly, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 24 (Fort Conrad, New Mexico; Rio 

 Grande to Colorado R.).— Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xi, 1859, 106 

 (New Mexico).— Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190, part (Fort 

 Tejon, California).— CouES, Ibis, 1865, 163, in text (Fort Whipple, Arizona); 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xviii, 1866, 66 (Fort ^^^^ipple); Check List, 1873, 

 no. 17, part; 2ded., 1882, no. 28, part; Birds Northwest, 1874, 14, part; Birds 

 Col.Val., 1878, 80, part.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 28, part; Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 

 1870, 75 (Colorado R.).— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 174 (near 

 Denver, Colorado).— Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xv, 1872, 194 (Colorado).— 

 Yarrow and Hensiiaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1872 (1874), 7 

 (Fish Springs, Utali).— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. ^Vlleeler's Surv., 1873 

 (1874), 98 (Inscription Rock and Gila R., New Mexico); Zool. Exp. W. 100th 

 Merid., 1875, 161 (localities in Colorado, New. Mexico, and Arizona).— Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgw.-^y, Hist. N.Am. Birds, i, 1874, 65, part.— (?) Lawrence, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 267, part (Mazatlan).— Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1879, 47, part.— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 23, part.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 76 (Chiri- 

 cahuaMts., Arizona). -Brown (N. C), Auk, i, 1884, 121 (Kendall Co., s. w. 

 Texas Jan.).— Scott, Auk, ii, 1885, 849 (Santa Catalina Mts., Arizona, 

 breeding); v, 1888, 167 (do.).-BECKHAM, Auk, iv, 1887, 125 (Pueblo Co., 

 Colorado, Oct., Nov.).-Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 299 (Concho Co., w. Texas, 

 winter).-CooKE, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 294 (Concho Co. and Boerne, 

 w. Texas, winter; Minnesota and Iowa, accidental).— Me arns. Auk, vi, 1889. 



n Probably also Sonora. though no l)reeding specimens from that State have been 

 seen l)y me. 



b One specimen examined from Berryessa. 



