^"'ig^^^] ^l^AKKS, Cactus Wretts of tke United States. I A? 



Heleodytes brunneicapillus bryanti Anthony. 

 Bryant Cactus Wren. 



Heleodytes bruntieicafiillus I'^rj'rt;//'/ Anthony, x\uk, Vol. XI, No. 3, July, 

 1894, p. 212. 



Geographical distribution. — Northern Lower California and southern 

 California, west of the Coast Range. 



Heleodytes brunneicapillus couesi {Sharpe). 

 Texan Cactus Wren. 



Campylorhynchus couesi Sharpe, Catal. Birds Brit. Mus., \o\. VI, 

 1S81, p. 196. 



Geographical distribution. — Rio Grande region of Texas and adjoining 

 Mexican States, west to the Eastern Desert Tract, ^ south over the Mexican 

 tableland. 



Heleodytes brunneicapillus anthonyi, subsp. nov.^ 

 Desert Cactus Wren. 



Geographical distribution. — Interior deserts of the southwestern 

 United States, south into the Mexican States of Chihuahua, Sonora, and 

 northeastern Lower California (east of the Coast Range). 



Type. — No. 132804, U. S. National Museum. Adult male from Adonde 

 Siding, Southern Pacific Railroad, Arizona. Collected February 27, 1894, 

 by Edgar A. Mearns and Frank X. Holzner. (Original number, 10306.) 



Characters. — Back and wings pale drab striped and barred with black, 

 the last bars interrupted ; intermediate rectrices, except the subterminal 

 white bar, nearly all black. Under surface of body white anteriorly, pale 

 ochraceous-buff posteriorly ; chin immaculate ; throat and fore part of 

 breast sparsely marked with crescentic black spots ; those on flanks, chest, 

 and abdomen small (sometimes obsolete), and more or less linear in the 

 median area. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length, 220 mm. ; alar expanse, 

 300 ; wing, 93 ; tail, 90 ; chord of culmen, 23 ; tarsus, 29 ; middle toe with 

 claw, 26. (Measured fresh by the author.) 



1 For description, of the Differentiation ' Tracts ' of the Mexican boundary 

 region, see Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIX, No. 1103, December 21, 1896. 

 (Advance sheets of this paper were published May 25, 1896.) 



^ Named in honor of Mr. Alfred W. Anthony, to whom ornithologists are 

 indebted for most of the knowledge respecting geographic variation in this 

 species. 



