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Grixxell, The Monterey Hermit Thrush. 



Auk 

 July 



range of true C. rujipennis, and the pale northwestern form of the 

 rufous-winged Ground Dove may be known as, 



Columbigallina rufipennis eluta,^ subsp. nov. 



Type from Escuinapa, Sinaloa, Mexico, (^ adult, No. 3947, Coll. of E. 

 A. & O. Bangs. Collected July 25, 1S97, by P. O. Simons. 



Characters. — Size and proportions as in true C. rufipennis. Colors all 

 much paler. Adult $, summer plumage: Front and supercilium drab; 

 crown pale olive gray; cervix, back and wings (except primaries and 

 bastard wing) pale vinaceous, palest on sides of neck, and with a slight 

 olivaceous tinge on back, the wing feathers, as usual, irregularly spotted 

 with black; rump and upper tail-coverts strong vinaceous; primaries 

 rufous, dusky at tips and along outer niargins; bastard wing black with 

 rufous patches in the middle of the feathers ; tail black, the outer rectrices 

 with huffy white terminal markings on outer webs, and slightly tipped 

 with brownish, middle rectrices vinous hazel ; throat whitish, rest of 

 under parts dull vinaceous pink; axillars and most of under wing-coverts 

 black. 



Measu reinents. 



THE MONTEREY HERMIT THRUSH. 



BY JOSEPH GRINNELL. 



Hylocichla aonalaschkae slevini, new subspecies. 



Subsp. Char. — In general coloration extremely pale and ashy, nearly 

 as much so as H. a. sequoiensis, but size even less than in H. a. verecunda. 



1 Elutus, washed out, insipid. 



^ The tarsus is somewhat feathered on upper part of outer side, as in true 

 C. rufipennis, and the other members of the subgenus or group Talpacotia. 



