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(Okanagan Valley north to Naramata) ; Washington (Sheep Moun- 

 tain and Nighthawk) ; Idaho (Lewiston and Salmon Kiver) ; Montana 

 (Billings); and Wyoming (Newcastle). East to Wyoming (New- 

 castle and Laramie) ; Colorado (Boulder,, Golden, Manitou, and west- 

 ern Baca County) ; Oklahoma (Black Mesa near Kenton and Wichita 

 Mountains) ; south-central Texas (Austin, Boerne, and San Antonio) ; 

 Tamaulipas (Gomez Farias) ; Veracruz (Chichicaxtle and Jico) ; 

 Puebla (Puebla and Atlixco) ; and Oaxaca (Cuicatlan and Tehuan- 

 tepec). South to Oaxaca (Tehuantepec and Santo Domingo) and 

 Guerrero (Taxco and Chilpancingo). West to Guerrero (Chilpan- 

 cingo) ; Colima (Rio de Coahuyana) ; Baja California (La Paz Laguna 

 Hanson, and Los Goronados Islands) ; California (the coast range as 

 far north as San Francisco Bay, Escondido, Pasadena, San Jose, Baird, 

 and Mount Shasta) ; Oregon (eastern slope of the Cascades, Ashland, 

 Brownsboro, and the mouth of the Deschutes River) ; Washington 

 (Wishram, Yakima, and Chelan) ; and British Columbia (Okanagan 

 Valley). 



The range as outlined is for the entire species, of which two sub- 

 species or geogi'aphic races are now recognized in the United States. 

 The typical race {C. m. meocicanus) is confined to Mexico; the white- 

 throated wren {C. m. albifrons) occurs from central western Texas, 

 near the mouth of the Pecos River, south over the Mexican Plateau to 

 Zacatecas; the canyon wren {C. m. conspersus) occupies the rest of the 

 range in the United States and British Columbia. 



Casual records. — Two specimens were collected, adult and young, 

 August 2 and 6, 1935, in Spearfish Canyon, S. Dak., the first record 

 for the state ; one was seen August 12, 1903 in the canyon of the White 

 River, Sioux County, Nebraska, between Glen and Andrews; a speci- 

 men was collected on November 23, 1906, near Cheyenne Wells. Colo. 



Egg dates. — Arizona : 6 records, April 18 to June 12. 



California : 68 records, March 28, to July 11 ; 34 records, April 21 to 

 May 17, indicating the height of the season. 



Colorado : 2 records, May 8 and June 9. 



Texas : 20 records, March 4 to June 19 ; 10 records, April 8 to 30. 



CATHERPES MEXICANUS CONSPERSUS Ridgway 



CANYON WREN 



Plates 52, 53 



HABITS 



On April 17, 1922, we drove down from the rough roads of the Cata- 

 lina Mountains, Ariz., and pitched camp in the heart of Apache 

 Canyon, one of the grandest and most beautiful of the canyons we had 

 seen. Near our camp the floor of the canyon was broad and fairly 

 smooth, though stony ; it was watered by a clear mountain stream that 



