V °i8 XVI l Allen, Recently Described North American Birds. 347 



" Chars, subsp. — Thryomanes T. b. eremophilo similis, a quo differt 

 partibus superioribus et hypochondriis obscurioribus, striga superciliari 

 paululum latiore, alis caudaque multo brevioribus. 



" Measurements (23 specimens). — Wing, 4S.5 to 55 (average, 51.7) mm. ; 

 tail, 47.5 to 54.5 (average, 51.5) mm.; exposed culmen, 12.5 to I4.5(average, 

 13. S) mm. ; bill from nostril, 9 to 11.5 (average, 10.2) mm.; tarsus, iS to 

 19.5 (average, 18.8) mm.; middle toe with claw, 14 to 16 (average, 15.4) 

 mm. 



" Type locality. — Nashoguero Valley, Lower California (Mexican and 

 United States boundary line). 



"Geographic distribution. — Coast region of southern California, 

 north to about Pasadena, south to latitude 28 , Lower California ; Santa 

 Catalina Island, California. Resident throughout its range. 



" Type. — Male, adult; No. 134163, U. S. N. M. ; Nashoguero Valley, 

 Lower California, June 5, 1894; Dr. Edgar A. Mearns. 



"Description. — Upper parts dull grayish sepia, slightly rufescent on 

 rump, the feathers of this part with more or less hidden roundish white 

 markings ; superior tail-coverts hair brown, obscurely barred with dusky. 

 Wings fuscous, secondaries alternately barred on external webs with 

 blackish and the color of the back ; lesser and median coverts, with 

 margins of greater series, also similar to the upper surface; primaries 

 narrowly edged on basal portion of exterior webs with buffy. Tail black, 

 the central rectrices hair brown, with regular bars of black; exterior 

 feathers with terminal portion dull smoke gray, the outer webs barred 

 with dingy white; remaining feathers barred on external webs and tipped 

 with hair brown. Superciliary stripe white; lores and cheeks grayish 

 white, mixed with brownish ; postocular streak like the crown ; sides of 

 neck deep brownish gray; chin and throat white (soiled by wear); rest 

 of under surface grayish white (adventitiously washed with brownish) ; 

 sides and flanks tinged with smoke gray ; crissum heavily barred with 

 black; lining of wing grayish white." 



" From eremophilus this race differs in decidedly darker flanks and 

 upper surface, rather broader superciliary stripe, more regularly and 

 heavily barred crissum, as well as much shorter wing and tail. From 

 murinus, which it approximates very closely in color above, it differs in 

 conspicuously shorter wing and tail, shorter culmen, darker flanks, and 

 somewhat less heavily barred lower tail-coverts." 



Thryomanes bewickii drymcecus Oberholser. l 



" Thryothorus bewickii spilurus A. O. U. Check-List, 1886, p. 327 (in 

 part). 



'• Chars, subsp. — Thry. b. charienturo affinis, sed supra valde rufes- 

 centior et paulo dilution 



^roc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXI, No. 1153, Nov. 19, 1898, 437. 



