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stripe; back and soapular.s buffv g-i-ayish brown, broadly streaked with 

 chestnut, but without distinct (if any) dusky ^^haft-streaks; tail light 

 cinnamon-brown or deep wood ))rown; sides of head and neck and most 

 of under parts pale buflyhair brown or pale broccoli brown, the chin, 

 throat, supraloral line, narrow orbital ring', malar stripe, and abdomen 

 paler, but not approaching white; a chestnut postocular streak and a 

 distinct black submalar streak. 



Young. — Much like adults, but pileum dull brown, obsoletely streaked 

 with darker; back more narrowl}' streaked with darker brown; chest 

 narrowly streaked with dusky brown, and submalar streak indistinct 

 or obsolete. 



Adult male.^lj&ngth (skins), 127.00-140.97 (136.65); wing, 55.88- 

 60.96 (59.18); tail, 57.15-67.31 (63.50); exposed culmen, 10.41-12.70 

 (11.43); depth of bill at base. 5.08-6.35 (5.59); tarsus, 19.05-20.57 

 (20.07); middle toe, 13.97-15.24 (14.99).' 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 127.00-132.08 (130.05); wnng, 55.37- 

 68.42 (57.40); tail, 58.93-66.04 (62.48); exposed culmen, 10.92-12.70 

 (11.94); depth of bill at base, 5.08-5.84 (5.33); tarsus, 19.05-20.32 

 (20.07); middle toe, 13.97-15.24 (14.48)."' 



California and northern Lower California; north to Marin Coimty, 

 Calaveras Cbunty, Sacramento Count}' (Cosumnes River), etc. ; south 

 to San Pedro Martir Mountains (foothills); Santa Cktalina Island, Santa 

 Barbara group, 



Aiamodromus ruficepsC\S)ii'S, Prac. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, Oct., 1852, 184 (Cosum- 

 nes R. or Calaveras R.,^ centr. California; coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. ) ; IlluHtr. 

 Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 18.H 135, pi. 20.— Heermann, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 2d ser., ii, 1852, 266 (Calaveras R.). 



Ammodramus ruficeps Heermanx, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 49 

 (Cosumnes R. and Calaveras R., Cal.). 



[Ammodriuiiui>'\ ruficeps Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 96, no. 7429. 



Peueaea ruficeps BAUiD, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 486, 925 (Calaveras R., 

 Fort Tejon, and San Francisco, California); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 372. 



Peuesea ruficeps Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 192 (Fort Tejon). — 

 Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 218, part (Cosumnes R. ; San Francisco; Santa Cata- 

 lina I.); Proe. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1870, 78 (Santa Catalina I.) . — Coues, Check 

 List, 1873, no. 171; 2ded., 1882, no. 255. — Baird, Brewer, and Riimivvay, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 45, pi. 28, fig. 6.— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 i, 1878, 418 (Murph3''s, Calaveras Co.,1 spec. Dec. 13). — Brewster, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 37 (Marin Co.; descr. nest and eggs); iv, 1879, 40 

 (descr. young); 47 (Marin Co.; habits and distribution). — Beldinc;, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 418 (Murphy's, Calaveras Co., Dec.).— Ridgway, 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 230.— Sennett, Auk, v, 1888, 41 (crit. ).— Amer- 

 ican Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 580, part. — Evermann, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 182 (V^entura Co.).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 



^ Eleven specimens. 

 ^ Six specimens. 



^Although the locality is given as simply ''California," the species was based upon 

 specimens collected by Dr. A. L. Heermann at one of the two places mentioned above. 



