154 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
TROPIDONOTUS COMPRESSICAUDUS WALKER], subspecies nov. 
In a collection of reptiles sent from Florida by Mr. 8S. T. Walker is 
a Tropidonotus which differs so markedly in coloration from anything 
in the reserve series of the National Museum that the above name is 
proposed for it. 
Body short, form triangular, somewhat compressed towards the tail. 
Head deep, broad, and short. Postfrontals very large, vertical long and 
narrow, occipitals large. One anteorbital, three postorbitals, the lower 
angle of the central one being prolonged to touch the sixth upper labial. 
Hight upper labials on each side, sixth and seventh about the same size. 
Twenty-two rows of scales, the first and second faintly the rest strongly 
earinated. Ground color, yellowish-olive, two black bands on neck, 
behind which are zigzag transverse blackish bands which continue down 
the body to the end of the tail. 
It will be seen from this description that the subspecies under con- 
sideration resembles in a very marked degree Kennicott’s Tropidonotus 
compressicaudus, but differs in having a larger and narrower vertical, 
one more row of scales, and in shape of head. So far as pattern and 
coloration are considered, they are precisely as described by Kennicott in 
T. compressicaudus, with the exception that there are two stripes on 
the neck, not four, and that the zigzag bands in the present species 
taper at the sides, and continue to end of tail, not breaking up into spots. 
The subspecies is named in honor of Mr. 8. T. Walker, who has for- 
warded many valuable specimens to the National Museum. 
No. Locality. | Date. Collector. Ale. 
10681 | Clearwater, Fla .......-..---. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW BIRDS FROM LOWER CALIFORNIA, 
COLLECTED BY MR. L. BELDING, 
By ROBERT RIDGWAY. 
1. Lophophanes inornatus cineraceus. ASuy TITMOUSE. 
Supsp. cH.—Adult 3 (No. 89800, Laguna, Lower California, Febru- 
ary 2, 1883; L. Belding): Above ashy-gray, slightly tinged with olive, 
especially on the rump; sides of head and neck paler ashy, gradually 
fading into whitish-gray on lores, cheeks, chin, throat, and jugulum; 
other lower parts grayish-white, the sides and crissum slightly tinged 
with brownish. Bill and feet black (dark plumbeous in Jife?). Wing 
2.80, tail 2.50, culmen 38, depth of bill at base .20, tarsus .75, middle 
toe .50. 
This local race of LZ. inornatus is even more decidedly gray above than 
the Middle Province form (L. inornatus griseus), characterized in volume 
5 of these Proceedings (page 344). It is likewise much paler colored 
