BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 



419 



25.65-29.97 (27.69); middle toe, 18.03-20.83 (19.30); hind claw, 11. IS- 

 IS. 97 (12.70); white on lateral tail-feather, 16.76-23.88 (19.30).' 



San Clemente Island (also Santa Catalina, Santa Cruz, and Santa 

 Rosa islands^), Santa Barbara ^roup, southern California. 



Pipilo megalonyx (not of Baird) Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 242, part (San Cle- 

 mente and Santa Catalina islands, California) . 



Pipilo maculatus megalonyx Townsexd, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 1-40 (San 

 Clemente Island; Santa Rosa Island), 141 (Santa Cruz Island). — Grinnell, 

 Auk, XV, 1898, 235 (Santa Catalina Island). 



Pipilo dementie Grinnell, Auk, xiv, July, 1897, 294 (Smugglers Cove, San Cle- 

 mente Island, Santa Barbara group, California; U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; Vnh. i, 

 Pasadena Xc. Sci., 1897, 19 (habits, notes, etc.). 



Pipilo maculatUH demeidx American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, 

 xvi, Jan., 1899, 120 (Check List No. 588(?). 



PIPILO MACULATUS ATRATUS Ridgway. 



SAN DIEGO TOWHEE, 



Similar to P. m. megalonyx but decidedly darker, with white mark- 

 ings of wings, tail, etc.. more restricted; adult male continuously deep 

 black aVjove (except for the usual white markings), even the rump 

 being deep black instead of more or less conspicuously grayish; adult 

 female with throat and chest very dark clove brown or sooty l)lack, 

 and general color of upper parts deep clove brown. 



' Twelve specimens. 



Specimens from different islands compare in average measurements as follows: 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Exposed 

 culmen. 



Depth 



ofbill 



at 



Tarsus. 



Middle Hind 

 claw. 



Length 

 of white 

 on out- 

 ermo.st 



tail- 

 feather. 



ALES. 



Six adult males from San Clemente 



Four adult males from Santa 



Catalina 



Four adult males from Santa Cruz. 

 One adult male from Santa Rosa. . 



86.61 97.79 

 8L03 I 91.44 

 81.03 I 88.39 



FEMALES. 



Three adult females from San Cle- 

 mente 79.25 90.17 



Three adult females from Santa 

 Catalina 81.53 92.71 



Four adult females from Santa 

 Cruz •. 78.74 91.19 



Two adult females from Santa 



Kosa I 80. 26 j 89. 41 



14.73 



14.73 

 14.73 

 14.73 



14. 22 

 14.48 

 14.48 

 13.72 



28.96 19.56 



28.96 1 

 27.43 I 



9.91 29.21 



I 28.19 



j 

 i 27.69 



! 



1 25.91 



19.81 

 19.05 

 19.06 



19.81 

 19.56 

 19.05 

 19.30 



12. 45 

 13.46 

 10.41 



13.21 

 12. 19 

 12.70 



24.89 

 23.88 



19. .56 

 21.84 

 22. 86 



13.21 1 16.76 



I have referred the birds from Santa Catalina, Santa Cruz, and Santa Rosa to the 

 San Clemente form provisionally only, the series being insufficient to demonstrate 

 whether there are any constant local differences or not. 



