N(.. il.-.:i. lll'J'ISION OF Tlll<: (IKNI'S Tlllt YOM A M'JS—O/lFli/ltil.sl'JJ,'. 13!) 



Tyjx; localili/. — CojiHt of (>}ilir<>nii;t, pr()biil)Iy vi<;iiiily oC San I-'niiicisco. 



(i(u)f/r(ij)liir (lislrihutunt. — Vicinity of San VmiwAHCAt liay, ('alifornia; 

 occasional on OosnTniicH River, (JaiiCornia. 



hcscripl ion.— Miih',, adult; No. KJl'TO.), (I.S.N. M.; Stanford Cni 

 vcrsity, (Jalifornia, .January 1), 1807; Ralph Arncdd.' IJi)pcr Kuifaco 

 Hi'pia l)i'<»wn, HJiadin^^ toward vandykc brown on nirnp, flic fcal hers of 

 the !att«'r wiMi more or Icks concealed white HpotH; superior taiI-<'overts 

 sepia, ol)Koletely barred with blackish. WingH fuHcoiiH; exterior webH 

 of HoeondaricK niarf(ined with bistre and indislinctly barre<l with l)!ack- 

 isli; winji-coverts like the back; exterior webs of j)riniaries (Ml^ed 

 basally with lij^ht brown, 'I'ail black, the central i)air of re(;trieeH 

 sepia, with iinjMirfecit l)ars of black; tlu', su(;c(!edin^ pair tipped, and 

 all the rest more or less marf^ined externally with sepia, with also indi 

 cat<Ml transverse maikin^s of bla<;kish ; the four exterior pairs of feath- 

 ers {grayish whitcion their terminal portiotis, theoutei'most i)air indented 

 (externally with th<*- same <',olor. SujK^rciliary sdipe white; loics and 

 sides of head ;;iayish white, the two last mixed with the color of tin; 

 back; posto<Milar streak bistre; sides of neck dark brownish ^jray; under 

 surfa<;e ^layish wliite, lifjhteston eliin and upi>er throat; sides of body 

 heavily washe«l with {,a'ay; llaidis rufescent niiiy; inferior tail<;overtH 

 tinj^ed with rufons and heavily barrcMl with black; lining; of winjf 

 grayish white. 



In the oiij^inal dcsciiption <»f his 'rrof/lodi/trs .sitilurvs Vi^^ors nu'Ji- 

 tions no locality; bnf as the liloHHom f,oiich(*d at no j)oint,s on the 

 I'a(;i(i(5 coast of the (Jnitced States exeeptinf,' San Francisco and Mon- 

 ter(\y, if secMns fair to assume that tlu; typ<e of this race came, from one 

 of these two j)lac<^s. No sp('cimens from Monf;ercy hav<' been exandnccl, 

 butidimatie and fopo^raphic conditioiiH render very probable the sup- 

 position that there occurs here the same form of 'rirri/oiiiKiicH as the one 

 found at San i'^rancisco. I-'urtlMMinorc, both plate and description, 

 insudicient and unsatisfactory as they are, seem to fit the San Fran- 

 cisco bird rather better than the one (rlrt/nicamH) wliich occui)ies the 

 interior of Oaliforina, reachiu}^ tlie coast at San Simeon; and (his lat- 

 ter, in all probal)ility, is the only other form to whi(di the nanu' xpilnrus 

 could be applied. Under the (?ircumstances, therefore, if, s(!ems leason- 

 ably saf«*/ to adopt spiiaruM for tlu; race inha]>itinj:j the neijfhborhoo<l of 

 San I"'rancis(M) I>ay. 



'J'/iri/ontdiics hc.icickii HpilurnH may be <listinj,niish(;d from hcivickii by 

 its duller brown u|)p(rr surface, darker sides and (ianks, broader 8ui)er- 

 ciliary strip<e, short<*-r win;^ and fail, rather lonj^er middle to<' and 

 tarsus. It may be sepaiafed from charlculnnix by darker, (b'<'.idcdly 

 more; rufescent flanks and upper parts and l)y sliorter tail; from 

 (IrymacMH by the much darkei- (;olor of sides, flanks and uppei- surfac*;. 



Spe(;inu',ns at hand from the viciinity of the eastern and sontluu-n 



'TbiH Hpociinuii Iiuh Itcon pn^HiMif,)-,*] U> Uio U. S. NaMonul Mmsciiim Ii.v Mr. .IdhcjiIi 

 (iriiiiii-,11. 



