^°8^'n An'THOny. a JVezu Pipilo from California. I OO 



with tinges of greenish and orange-brownish. The specimens 

 which I have taken off San Diego have' all had more purely yellow 

 bills than the plate given by Dr. Stejneger. Dark lines follow 

 the separations of the lamellae and a dusky spot in front of the 

 nasal tubes reaches at times to the base of the unguis. At the 

 angle of the lower mandible is usually (always ?) an orange spot, 

 its outlines blended with the yellowish of the rest of the bill. 



The claim of F. glacialoides to a place in the fauna of North 

 America rests, I think, solely upon the type said to have been 

 taken off the Columbia River. If the specimen came from there, 

 as reported, the bird must be regarded as a very rare or accidental 

 visitor to our coast, for none of the later observers have met with 

 the species. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW PIPILO FROM SOUTHERN 

 AND LOWER CALIFORNIA. 



BY A. W. ANTHONY. 



A SERIES of brown Towhees collected the past year between San 

 Diego and San Fernando, Lower California, differs so considerably 

 from skins in my collection from the northern part of the habitat 

 of Pipilo fuscus crissalis., that in order to ascertain the proper 

 status of the southern bird, I have brought together a series 

 representing nearly every considerable part of the habitat of the 

 subspecies, reaching from Mendocino County, California, to 

 Point San Carlos, Lower California, or from about latitude 40° to 

 about 29° 2,0' . The number of skins examined is about 200, and 

 the results obtained were more interesting than at first antici- 

 pated. Vigors's type of P. f. crissalis was obtained at Monterey. 

 Unfortunately I am unable to secure a series from that exact 

 locality, but Mr. R. C McGregor has kindly sent me some skins 

 from there that are in all respects indistinguishable from a fine 

 series from Marin County, collected for me by Messrs. J. and 



