94 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Sitta pygmaea Vigors : Pygmy Nuthatch 

 Sitta pygmaea Vigors, in Zool. Beechey's Voy., 1839, p. 25, pi. 4, fig. 2. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene: Carpinteria, Santa 

 Barbara County, California. 



Family CHAMAEIDAE: V^ren-tits 



Genus CHAMAEA Gambel 



Chamaea Gambel, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 3, No. 7, January- 

 February (May 7), 1847, p. 154. Type, by original designation, Panis 

 jasciatus Gambel. 



Chamaea fascia ta (Gambel) : Wren-tit 



Parii^s jasciatus Gambkl, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 2, No. 10, 

 July-August (Dec. 5), 1845, p. 265. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene: Carpinteria, Santa 

 Barbara County, California. 



Family MIMIDAE: Thrashers and Mockingbirds 



Genus TOXOSTOMA Wagler 



Toxostoma Wagler, Isis von Oken, vol. 24, Heft 5 (May) 1831, col. 528. 

 Type, by monotypy, Toxostoma vcltila Wagler = Orpheus curvirostris 

 Swainson. 



Toxostoma bendirei (Coues) : Bendire's Thrasher 

 Harporhynchus betidirei Coues, Amer. Nat., vol. 7, No. 6, June 1873, P- 330. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene: McKittrick, Kern 

 County, California. 



Toxostoma redivivum (Gambel) : California Thrasher 



Harpcs rcdiviva Gambel, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 2, No. 10, 

 July-August (Dec, 5), 1845, p. 264. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea, 

 Los Angeles, California. 



Genus OREOSCOPTES Baird 



Oreoscoptcs Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. Surv. R. R. 

 Pac, vol. 9, 1858, pp. XIX, XXXV. Type, by monotypy, Orpheus montanus 

 Townsend. 



Oreoscoptes montanus (Townsend) : Sage Thrasher 



Orpheus montanus Townsend, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 7, 

 pt. 2, Nov. 21, 1837, p. 192. 



