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Huey (318) noted two or three birds about the caves of San Cleniente in April, 

 1915, and G. Willett (MS) says lie saw them building commonly in the caves of 

 Catalina during April, 1904. H. Wright (9) saw birds on Santa Barbara Isl- 

 and, July 2 and 8, 1912, and he found a nest with an addled egg on Anacapa, 

 July 1. Abundant on Santa Cruz, where, in Apiil, 1911, we found them nesting 

 in a certain large tide cave in such numbers that their twittering could be heard 

 a long distance away. They frequently visited a spring near camp for the pur- 

 pose of gathering mud, sometimes trailing long wisps of grass in their wakes. 



161. Tachycineta thalassina lepida Meams 



Northern Violet-green Swallow^ 



On San Clemente Island, April 9, 1915, one of these birds flew close over D. 

 E. Dickey and L. ]\T. Huey, permitting certain identification. 



162. Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot 



Cedar Waxwing 



Ampelis cedrorum (/) Grinnell, Pasadena Acad. Sci., i, 1897, p. 19. (.?) Mearns, Bull. U. 



S. Nat. Mus., Lvi, 1907, p. 142. 

 Bombycilla cedrorum (S) Willett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 91. (//) Dawson, Condor, 



xvii, 1915, p. 204. (r,) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 140. 

 Irregular visitant. On San Clemente, J. Grinnell (1) saw a single bird 

 May 31, 1897, which was unmistakably of this species. W. L. Dawson (4) noted 

 a flock of about forty birds on Santa Cruz Island. April 11, 1915, which remained 

 among the holl.y bushes for a week or more. 



16.3. Lanius ludovicianus anthonjd Mearns 



Island Shrike 



Collyrio excuhitorides (/) Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., iv, 1870, p. 78. 



Collurio ludovicianus var. excuhitorides (2) Henshaw, Rep. Wheeler Surv., 1876, p. 237. 



Lanius hidovicianus excuhitorides (/?) Blake, Auk, iv, 1887, p. 330. 



Lanius ludovicianus gamheli (.'/) Keeler, Zoe, i, 1891, p. 339. (.7) Grinnell, Pasadena 

 Acad. Sci., i, 1897, p. 19. (6) Grinnell, Auk, xv, 1898, p. 234. 



Lanius ludovicianus anthonyi (7) Mearns, Auk, xv, 1898, p. 261. (<S) A. O. U. Commit- 

 tee, Auk, XVI, 1899, p. 122. (9) Mailliard, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, i, 1899, p. 42. UO) 

 Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxii, 1900, p. 233. (//) Ridgway, Birds North & 

 Mid. Am., iii, 1904, p. 251. (12) A. O. U. Check-list, 3d ed., 1910, p. 297. (13) How- 

 ell and van Rossem, Condor, xiii, 1911, p. 210. (L',) Willett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, 

 p. 92. (/.5) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 8, 1912, p. 18. (16) Grinnell, Pac. Coast 

 Avif., 11, 1915, p. 142. 



Lanius anthonyi (17) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 3, 1902, p. 62. (18) Linton, Condor, x, 

 1908, p. 128. 



L[anius'\. l[udovicianus'\. anthonyi (19) Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., 1903, p. 372. 

 (20) Bailey, Handb. Birds West. U. S., 2d ed., 1904, p. 393. (21) Reed, N. Am. Birds' 

 Eggs, 1904, p. 283. 



Lanius ludovicianus mearnsi (22) Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, 1903, p. 108. 

 (23) Ridgway, Birds North & Mid. Am., iii, 1904, p. 252. (2',) A. O. U. Committee, 

 Auk, XXI, 1904, p. 416. (25) A. O. U. Committee, Auk, xxvi, 1909, ]). 296. 



Lanius (2(1) Breninger, Auk, xxi, 1904, p. 223. 



