442 PROCEEDTNCS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



THRYOMANES BEWICKII NESOPHILUS, new subspecies. 



ThnjolhoruH hcwickii spiliiriix A. <). II. Clieck-Lisii, \HXi>, p. !W7 (in i)!iit). 



Chars, suhsi). — Tliryomiuios T. h. cliiU'ionturo alTliiiis, ;i quo dilleit 

 notaco, laterihiis Jiypocliondriisciuo obacnrioribus ac rufescentioribus. 



MctixitrviHciits {(1 spcrimciis). — Wiuj;, 40 to 53 (avcraji'e, 51.1) mm ; tail, 

 17 to 51 (iivcrajic, IS.S) mm; ex])ose(l culmcii, l.'J.S to 14.5 (avoiafic, 

 11,1) mm; bill from nostril, 10 to 11 (avcrajje, 10.2) mm; tarsus, 18.5 to 

 19.5 (avcrajie, IS.S) mm; middle too with claw, 15 to 1(5 (avoraf^c, 15.7) 

 mm. 



Ti/pe locality. — Santa (-ru/ Island, California.. 



Oeoijraphie (Ihtrihiiliou. — Santa Rosa and Santa, Ornz islands, (Cali- 

 fornia. 



Tiipc—Mn^c, adult; No. 117(i41, U.S.N.M., Santa, (huz Island, (^ali- 

 i'oinia, bV.bruary 7, 1.S8J); (,. 11. Townsend. 



DcscriplUm. — Above {jrayisli bistres, rather darker on head, some- 

 what m()r<' rufous on rump, the, feathers thoj'e with more or less con- 

 cealed while spots; upper tail coveits hair brown, obscurely barred 

 with blackish, \Viu.i;s fuscous, the secondaries marked on external 

 webs, the inntMiuost ones on both, with alternate bars of brownish 

 olive aud blackish; primarii^s iudented basally on outer webs with 

 bully; less(M- and middle coverts like tin' back ; greater series barred 

 on exterior webs and tipp(Ml with this same color. Central rectri(;es 

 and exteri(U' webs of all but outer pair like the back in color, but rej>u- 

 larly barred with black; tijjs of the feathers hair brown, indentations 

 on distal i)ortion of external webs of outer ])air dull white; remainder 

 of tail blai^k. Superciliary stripe white; lores and cheeks grayish 

 white mixed with dull brown; i)ostocula-r streak brownish olive; sides 

 of neck brownish gray, under surface dull brownish white, most nearly 

 jmre white on chin and throat; sides washed with brownish gray; 

 tlanks strongly tinged with the sann^; under tail-coverts slightly 

 washed with ochraiicous and heavily barred with black; liiung of wing 

 grayish white. 



Yomif) ill first plnmnf/e. — Female; No. 130705, IT.S.N.M., Biological 

 Survey collection ; Santa Rosa Island, California, July 3, 1892; C. I*. 

 Streator. Upper surface grayish sepia, slightly more reddish on rump, 

 a few featliers of the latter with hidden white spots; superior tail- 

 coverts obsoletely barn^d, T^xposed surface of the closed wing like 

 the back, barred, excej)!, on the median and lesser coverts, with darkei-; 

 very narrow edgings to i)rimaries pale bulfy. Tail black; the central 

 feathers, with external webs of all but the outermost i)air, like the 

 upper ])a,rts in color, barred regularly with black; all the rectrices 

 tipped with hair brown, the two outer pairs more or less indented on 

 external webs with white. Superciliary stripe white; lores and cheeks 

 brownish white, mixed with brown; lower parts brownish white, 



