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Pipilo maculatus megalonyx (2) Blake, Auk, iv, 1887, p. 330. {3) Belding, Land Birds 

 Pac. Dist, 1890, p. 171. ()) Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, p. 140. (5) 

 Keeler, Zoe, i, 1891, p. 339. (6) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 208. (7) Swarth, Con- 

 dor, XV, 1913, p. 168. (8) Grinnell, Pac. Coalst Avif., 11, 1915, p. 132. 



Pipilo maculatus oregonus (9) Mailliard, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, i, 1899, ]). 42. (10) 

 Beck, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, i, 1899, p. 86. 



Pipilo maculatus clementae (//) Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxii, 1900, p. 233. 

 (12) Ridgway, Birds North & Mid. Am., i, 1901, p. 418. (IS) Howell and van Ros- 

 sem. Condor, xiii, 1911, p. 210. (U,) Willett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 87. (].'>) 

 Wright and Snyder, Condor, xv, 1913, p. 91. 



Pipilo clementae (?) (16) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 128. 



Pipilo maculatus subsp. (77) Osburn, Condor, xi, 1909, p. 139. 



Spurred Towhee (18) Willett, Condor, xii, 1910, p. 171. 



Tlie towhees of Santa Crnz Island have nsually been classed with the last 

 vhce, bnt several observers have placed them otherwise. While we were on the 

 island in April, 1911, A. van Rossem called my attention to the fact that the call 

 and song of the birds in that locality were precisely like those of megalonyx on 

 the mainland, whereas the notes of the towhees from the other islands are con- 

 siderably different. The few birds from Santa Crnz Island in my collection are 

 easily distinguished from Catalina specimens, but cannot be told from birds from 

 Los Angeles County. H. S. Swarth (7) presents this fact very clearly, and after 

 examining large series, identifies Santa Cruz Island birds as megalonyx. He in- 

 fers that towhees from Santa Rosa Island would also be referable to the mainland 

 race, but until an adecpiate series from that locality has been examined, I provi- 

 sionally place them with clementae. 



Towhees are not abundant on Santa Cruz. In the spring they are shy and 

 little in evidence, but in the fall, when their numbers have been increased by the 

 yearly crop of youngsters, they are rather more common, scratching among the 

 leaves of the brushy hillsides. 



Osburn {17) reported having seen a spotted towhee on the Coronados. If 

 there was no mistake in regard to the record, this bird was probably a straggler 

 from the mainland, for it is certain that no Pipilo is resident on that group of 

 islands. 



155. Zamelodia melanocephala (Swainson) 



Black-headed Grosbeak 



Habia melanocephala (1) Mailliard, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, i, 1899, p. 45. 

 Zamelodia melanocephala capitalis (2) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 135. 



On Santa Cruz Island, J. Mailliard {1 and M^) shot a male April 27, 1898, 

 and saw several more. W. L. Dawson {M8) also saw a male that was in the 

 possession of Mr. Lucchelli of that island. 



156. Guiraca caerulea lazula (Lesson) 



Western Blue Grosbeak 



Guiraca caerulea lazula (1) Mailliard, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, i, 1899, p. 44. (2) Wil- 

 lett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 88. 

 Guiraca caerulea, salicarius (3) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 136. 



