2Q4 Grinnell, a JVezv To'vhee from California. I July 



Full clutches of fresh eggs may be found on the 20th of May, 

 and I found one nest containing young just hatched on the 4th of 

 June, 1893. 



Although I have seen a number of small snakes, throughout 

 these ponds and swamps, drop off the lower branches of the trees 

 and bushes at my approach, I have never found any nests of the 

 Parula Warblers which had been disturbed by them. 



On May 21, 1894, after a heavy wind and rain storm which 

 lasted some four or five days, the swamps in northern Cape May 

 County were completely flooded. I found one Parula's nest 

 during this storm which had been washed out, and probably 

 many others on the lower branches were destroyed. The land 

 bordering one of these swamps northwest of Dennisville, which 

 on May 18 seemed very dry, was also flooded for some distance, 

 and many Black and White Warblers, a nest of which was found 

 here on that date, were seen feeding among the trees, and no 

 doubt not only their nests, but many others of the ground nesting 

 species were destroyed. 



DESCRIPTION OF ANEWTOWHEE FROM CALIFORNIA. 



BY JOSEPH GRINNELL. 



Pipilo clementse, new species. San Clemente Towhee. 



Specific characters. — Differs from P. maculattis megalonyx in its larger 

 size, and in having the dark upper and anterior parts in both sexes of a 

 much lighter shade. 



Type, $ ad., No. 2290, Coll. J. G., Smuggler's Cove, San Clemente 

 Island, California, Mar. 31, 1897. 



Head and neck all around sooty seal brown, purest and darkest on the 

 throat. Upper parts, including wings and tail, sooty, 'washed' with 

 olive-gray. Rump lighter. Upper tail-coverts finely barred with dusky. 

 Distribution of white markings, and rest of plumage, as in J P. m 

 we gal onyx. 



Type, $ ad., No. 2291, Coll. J. G., Smuggler's Cove, San Clemente 

 Island, California, Mar. 31, 1897. 



