BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



671 



tail, 4S-50 (4S.!»); exposed culmen, 10; tar«us, lU.5-21 (20.1); middle 

 toe, 12-13 (12.8).^ 



Pacific coast district, from British Columbia southward; breeding- 

 southward to Los Angeles County, (Mifornia, and eastward to Fort 

 Klamath, Oregon; during migration to Cape St. Lucas. 



Sylvia trichas (not Tardus (richas Linnseus) Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 463, 

 part (Columbia R.). — Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., viii, 1839, 153 

 ( Columbia R. ) . 



Geothijlpis trichas Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 241, part (Fort 8teila- 

 coom and Shoalwater Bay, Washington); Cat. N. Am. Birds^, 1859, no. 170, 

 part; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 220, part. — Cooper and Buckley, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., xii, pt. 2, 1860, 177 (Shoalwater Bay, etc., Washington). — Lord, 

 Proc. Roy. Artil. Inst.W^oolwich, 1864, 115 (British ColumV)ia) . — Brown, Il)is, 

 1868, 420 (Vancouver I.). — Cooper, Orn. Cal. 1870, 95, part. — Salvin, Ibis, 

 1872, 149, part (monogr.) .— CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 97, part; 2d ed., 1882, 

 no. 141, part; Birds, N. W., 1874, 74, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 309, part.— 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 297, part. — 

 RiDGWAY, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878,65 (Marysville, California); Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 122, part.— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 

 407, part (centr. California) ; v, 1883, 536 (La Paz, Lower California, winter). — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 351, part. 



[(Uuthb/pistncluis] a. trichas Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Dec, 1872, 458, part. 



Geoihlypis trichas var. trichas Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Dec, 1872, 458, part. 



[Geothlypis trichas'] var. trichas Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 296, part. 



Trichas marylandica (not Sylvia marylandica Wilson) Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. 

 and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 454, part (Oregon). — Gambel, Journ. AcNat. Sci. 

 Phila., i, 1847, 37, part (California). 



Trichas marilandica Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 65, part; Birds Am., net. ed., ii, 

 1841, 78, part. 



Trichas marylandicus Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, 1846, 155, part (Cal- 

 fornia) . 



Trichas delafieldii (not Sylria delafieldii Audubon) Heermann, Journ. Ai-. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., ii, 1852, 263, part (California) ; Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, 1859, 

 40, part (California). 



Geothlypis trichas occideirtalis (not of Brewster) Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 171 

 Washington Co., Oregon, summer). — American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Check List, 1886, no. 681a, part.— (?) Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 

 1887, 224 (base of Mount Shasta, n. California).— Merrill, Auk, v, 1888, 362 

 (Fort Klamath, Oregon, breeding). — Lawrence (R. H.), Auk, ix, 1892, .356 

 (Grays Harbor, Washington) . 



' Five specimens. 



Adult males from different localities average, respectively, as follows : 



Locality. 



Four adult males from British Columbia 



Seven adult males from western Washington 



One adult male from western Oregon 



Three adult males from southern California (Santa Clara 



Pasadena, etc. ) 



One adult male from Lower California (Seven Wells) 



Middle 

 toe. 



13.5 

 13.6 



