°i8g7 I Anttiony, Nc7v Hirc/s from Lozver Califoniia. l6c 



Lower California, north of 27"^. In advance of a more complete 

 paper on the avifauna of this interesting^ region the following new 

 species are described. 



Carpodacus mcgregori, sp. nov. McGrkcor's House Finch. 



Sf>. cliar. — Nearest C. ampins hut sliglitly smaller, with more com- 

 pressed and laterally' fattened mandihle, longer tail and different color- 

 ation ; larger than C. vicxicaiius frontalis, hill much larger, its lateral 

 outlines viewed from ahove, parallel for nearly half the length. Red 

 colors replaced hy orange tints. 



Type, Ai\. $, No. 7393 coll. A. W. A., San lU-nilo Island, Lower 

 California,' Sept. 7, 1S96. AhoNC dark olive gray hea\il\' slreaketl witli 

 hiackish sla(e; rump pinkish orange ; tOrelu'.'id, superciliar\' stripe, and 

 malar region orange sci'milioii ; ciiiii, throat ;ind breast lighter, 

 approaching orange chrome; lest ol lower parts whitish, hea\ily streaketl 

 with slaty; wings and tail dusky brown, primaries and tail-feathers edgeti 

 with whitish; wing-coverts edged and tipjied with bully white. Wing, 

 Ni mm.; tail, 73; culmen, 13; depth ol l)ill, 11. Ilai)itat, San IJenito 

 Ishinds, Liiwer Calitornia. 



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A. Carpodacus amjilus. 



B. C. mcgregori. 



C. C. mexicanus frontalis 



I take great pleasure in naming this very strongly marked 

 species in honor of my friend Mr. R. C. McGregor of Palo Alto, 

 Cal., in recognition of valuable assi.stance he has often rendered 

 me. The basal third of the bill is slightly compressed laterally .so 

 that viewed from above the lateral outlines are parallel for nearly 

 one half of the length. A series of from two to four more or less 

 well defined grooves run from the anterior border of the nostril 

 parallel with the culmen nearly to the commissure. 



'In a note on Ammodranius sanctorunt (Auk, Vol. XIV, p. 92) Dr. 

 Elliott Coues, places the San Henilo Islands in the (hdf of California; their 

 true position is about twenty miles west of Cerros Island — on the I'acific side 

 of the peninsula — or about Lat. 28" 20", aiul Long. 1 1 5''-35'. 



