204 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(approaching sepia) ; primaries narrowly edged with paler grayish 

 brown, and larger wing-coverts usually more or less distinctl}^ mar- 

 gined at tip with the same; an indistinct superciliary stripe of pale 

 grayish buff or pale buffy grayish brown; auricular and suborbital 

 regions dusky grayish brown, narrowly but conspicuous!}^ streaked 

 with dull buffy whitish; malar region pale grayish buff or dull buffy 

 whitish, more or less flecked with dusky; chin and throat pale buff, 

 pinkish buff or buffy white, margined along each side by an indistinct 

 (often obsolete) dusky submalar streak ; chest, sides of breast, and sides 

 pale grayish brown (grayish isabeila color to grayish drab), becoming 

 browner on flanks; median portion of breast and upi)er aljdomen pale 

 buff to cinnamon-buff, becoming deeper cinnamon-buff on lower 

 abdomen and passing into cinnamon on under tail-coverts; bill black- 

 ish, the lower basal portion of inandi})le usually paler or more brown- 

 ish; iris brown; legs and feet brownish or dusky (in dried skms). 



Young. — Essentially like adults but l:)rowner above, with larger 

 wing-coverts and tertials margined terminally with lighter cinnamon- 

 l)rownish, the rectrices more or less rusty brownish terminally; chest 

 less gra^ash (more brownish), sometimes only slightly different from 

 general color of under parts. 



Adult male.— hength (skins), 270-297 (2S4); wing, 97-106.5 (102.6); 

 tail, 120-138 (129.7); exposed culmen, 32-39.5 (36.3); tarsus, 35-40.5 

 (38.2); middle toe, 22-26.5 (24. 5). « 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 260-292 (278); wing, 96-105.5 

 (100.6); tail, 124-132. 5 (127.2); exposed culmen, 34-39 (36.2); tarsus, 

 35.5-38.5 (37.2); middle toe, 23-26 (24.2).^ 



Coast and interior valleys of California and northern Lower Cali- 

 fornia; northward to Shasta County, southward to San Quentin Bay, 

 San Fernando, and San Pedro Martir Mountains. 



Harpes rediviva Game el, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1845, 2G4 (Monterey, Cali- 

 fornia; quotes Promerops de la Cali/ornie Scptcntrionale La Perouse, Voy., Atl., 

 pi. 37); iii, 1846, 112 (crit.). 



T[oxostoma\ rediviva Gambel, Jo'urn. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.. ii. 1847, 42 (descrip- 

 tion). 



Toxostoma rediviva Baird, in Slansbury's Rep. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 328 (Mon- 

 terey). — Heermann, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., ii, 1853. 264 (San 

 Diego; Cosumnes R. ; song). — Cassin, Illiistr. Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1855, 

 260, pi. 42.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 126 (San Jose Valley, 

 California). — Richmond, Auk, xix, 1902, 89, in text. 



Toxostoma rediviva rediviva Grinnell (J.), Pacific Coast. Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 67 

 (range). 



[Toxostoma] rediviva Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 277. 



Toxostoma redivivum Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 126. — American 

 Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xix, 1902, 328. — Bailey (Florence 

 M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 440. 



[Toxostoma] redivivum Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 107. 



a Thirteen specimens. ^ Seven specimens. 



