"■Sys"] Anthony, A jVew Pipilo from Cali/oriiia. tit 



except on the abdomen and flanks. This difference is further 

 increased along the peninsula to the south and is, I think, suffi- 

 ciently well marked to warrant the separation of the southern 

 bird as a subspecies, which 1 propose to call Pipilo fuscus scnicula 

 ( from the Mexican name for the bird, Viecito — a little old 

 woman). 



Pipilo fuscus senicula, subsp. nov. 



Subsp. char. — Differing from crissalis in smaller size, much less rusty 

 on lower parts, upper parts darker and lower more grayish. Type, No. 

 47^5' $1 Coll. A. W. A., San Fernando, Lower Calif., Jan. lo, 1894. 



Above clear grayish sepia; pileum indistinctly vandyke brown; below- 

 smoky grayish with rusty wash on flanks and buffy on lower abdomen ; 

 lower tail-coverts chestnut; throat tawny clay color, about as in crissalis; 

 malar region grayish brown. Wing, 87 mm.; tail, iii; culmen, 13.5 ; 

 height of bill, 9; tarsus, 26. 



Habitat, Southern California, and Lower California as far south as 29° 

 at least. 



A June specimen (No. 5371) from the same locaUty differs 

 from the above only in a somewhat more chestnut pileum and 

 slightly paler lower parts. From albigida the present race is 

 distinguished at a glance by its much darker lower parts, more 

 pronounced throat patch (very pale buffy in the St. Lucas bird), 

 chestnut lower tail-coverts, etc. It is quite plain, however, that 

 the characters upon which senicula is based are intermediate 

 between albigula and crissalis, and it is to be regretted that there 

 are no specimens available from the country between San Fer- 

 nando and Cape St. Lucas. A large series from Southern Cali- 

 fornia prove the birds of that region to be practically the same as 

 regards color as those from San Fernando. The measurements 

 are, however, not quite the same though the most of my skins are 

 nearly or quite as small as those from the peninsula. In the 

 following tables of measurements the relative proportions of both 

 crissalis and senicula are given from typical specimens from each 

 locality. In obtaining a series of skins for comparison I have 

 been greatly assisted by Messrs. L. Belding, W. E. Bryant, R. C. 

 McGregor. J. and J. W. Mailliard and F. Stephens, to all of 

 whom I take this opportunity of expressing my indebtedness. 



