° 1918 J Oberholser, Races of Toxostoma redivivum. Do 



Chars, subsp. — Brown of upper parts decidedly grayish; white of 

 throat with little or no tinge of buffy; brown jugular band dark and 

 grayish; buffy ochraceous of posterior lower parts pale. 



Measurements. — Male: 1 wing, 94-106.5 (average, 100.6) mm.; tail, 

 117-138 (128.1); exposed culmen, 32-39 (36.2); tarsus, 36.5-40 (38.1); 

 middle toe without claw, 22-26 (24.3). 



Female: 2 wing, 93-105.5 (average, 98.9) mm.; tail, 124-130 (126.9); 

 exposed culmen, 33.5-39 (36.1); tarsus, 35.5-39 (37.2); middle toe with- 

 out claw, 22.5-25.5 (23.8). 



Type locality. — Near Monterey, California. 



Geographic distribution. — Central northern Lower California, and 

 southern California excepting the southeastern part and the coast region 

 north of Monterey Bay. Resident in the Upper Austral and to some 

 extent the Lower Austral zones, north to Amador (Amador County) in 

 California, Sacramento, and Grafton (northeastern Yolo County); west 

 to Brentwood (Contra Costa County), Monterey, Santa Barbara, Laguna 

 Beach (Orange County), San Diego, and the Mexican Boundary Line at 

 the Pacific Ocean; south to extreme southwestern San Diego County, 

 Campo, and Cameron Ranch (San Diego County) in California, and Han- 

 son Laguna, Lower California; east to Jacumba (southwestern Imperial 

 County) in California, Palm Springs (Riverside County), Hesperia (San 

 Bernardino County), Piute Mountains (Kern County), Weldon (Kern 

 County), East Fork of Kaweah River about 10 miles west of Mineral King 

 (Tulare County), Fresno Flat (Madera County), Coulterville, and Murphy 

 (Calaveras County). 



Remarks. — The subspecific separation of the birds of this species 

 living in southern California from those inhabiting the coast 

 region north of Monterey Bay was first made by Dr. Joseph 

 Grinnell. 3 From our present investigations it is evident that 

 this distinction is easily maintainable, although it must be noted 

 that none of the characters are wholly constant, on account of 

 the great amount of individual variation in both races. Birds 

 in juvenal plumage are, furthermore, almost as readily distin- 

 guishable as those in the adult stage; the juveniles of the present 

 form being decidedly less ochraceous on the under parts and some- 

 what less rufescent above than the young of Toxostoma redivivum 

 sonomae. 



1 Ten specimens, from California. 



2 Ten specimens, from California. 



3 Harporhynchus redivivus pasadenensis Grinnell, Auk, XV, No. 3, July, 1898, p. 237 

 (Pasadena, California). 



