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Advl f female. -I jem^ih (skins), 124-136 (131); wing, 66-74.5 (69.1); 

 tail, 56.5-62 (58. 9); exposed culmen, 10.5-13 (12.9); tarsus, 16.5-19 

 (18.8); middle toe, 8.5-9.5 (9.1).« 



Breeding in Southern California (mountains of Los Angeles and 

 San Bernardino counties, probably also of San Diego and other con- 

 tiguous counties) and southern Arizona (Huachuca Mountains; 

 Apache; Tucson; Wilcox; Adonde; 7 miles south of Bisbee; Palmer- 

 lee, Cochise Count}- Grand Canyon), southern New Mexico (100 miles 

 west of El Paso, Tex.; Apache, Grant County), and highlands of 

 northern and central Mexico; south (at least during migration) through 

 Mexican States of Cbihuahua (Pacheco), Sonora (Alamos; San Ber- 

 nardino Ranch), Sinaloa (near Mazatlan; Sinaloa), Jalisco (La Barca; 

 Bolaiios), Guanajuato (Silao; Guanajuato), Hidalgo (Tulalcingo; 

 Irolo; Tula), San Luis Potosi (Soledad; San Luis Potosi), Mexico 

 (Mexicalcingo ; Ixtapalapa; Culhuacan; Huipulco; Coapa; Chimalpa; 

 Tlalpam), and Puebla (Chalchicomula), and Territory of Tepic 

 (Tepic); also wintering in Lower California (Cape San Lucas; San 

 Jose del Cabo; La Paz; Triunfo; Comondu; Santa Margarita Island ; 

 Espiritu Santo Island; San Pablo; Santa Anita; Mulege). Colorado, 

 at least casually (New Castle, May 24). 



(??) Tyrarmula obscnra Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. s., i, 1827, 367 (Mexico; see 



Brewster, Auk, vi, 1889, 89). 

 Emjndonax obscurus (not of Baird, 1858) Baird, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 



301, 303 (Cape San Lucas).— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 542 



(La Paz, etc.. Lower California). — Bryant (W. E.), Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 2d 



ser., ii, 1889, 292 (Tia Juana, Lower California). 

 [Empidonax] obscurus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 52, part. 

 Empidonax griseus Brewster, Descr. Sup. New Birds from Western N. Am. and 



Mexico, Jan. 31, 1889, 87 (La Paz, Lower California; coll. W. Brewster); 



Auk, vi, Apr., 1889, 87 (do.); Bull. Mus. Corap. Zool., xli, 1902, 122 (Cape San 



Lucas district, Oct. to Apr., Santa Margarita I., Feb.; Comondu, Mar.; 



breeding in s. Arizona and in Mexico). — Bryant (W. E.), Proc. (^alif. Ac. 



Sci., 2d ser., ii, 1889, 292 (La Paz; Triunfo; San Jose del Cabo).— American 



Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, vii, 1890, 62; Check List, 2d ed., 



a Twenty-two specimens. 



