iSg^n Anthony on the Genus Helcodytcs. 211 



the birds from the northern part of the Peninsula and adjacent 

 region of San Diego County, California. Unfortunately no spec- 

 imens are obtainable from the mouth of the Colorado River and 

 Gulf coast of Lower California, though Mr. F. Stephens has 

 kindly loaned me, among others, a specimen from the Colorado 

 Desert and two from Sonora. 



Beginning with a specimen from La Paz (No. 15,003, Coll. 

 Win. Brewster, April 4, 1S87), which Mr. Brewster assures me 

 is perfectly typical H. affinis, I find the entire lower parts well 

 spotted with black, evenly distributed and of equal size on the 

 breast and lower parts. Those on the lower tail-coverts are 

 larger and on the chin slightly smaller; across the breast the 

 spots are not quite so well defined and are a very little more 

 abundant, suggesting somewhat the nebulous spotting of this 

 region in typical H. bru?iueicapillus. On the flanks and belly 

 there is the faintest possible suggestion of the rufous found in 

 b r u iineicapillus . All but the central tail feathers are fully 

 barred on the inner webs with quadrate white spots, reaching 

 nearly or quite to the shaft. 



Another specimen from La Paz, collected by L. Belding, 

 bears upon the label, in Mr. Belding's handwriting, "Typical 

 (B.)." This shows rather heavier marks upon the throat and 

 upper breast but is otherwise the counterpart of the first 

 described. A third skin (No. 216, California Acad, of Science) 

 is labeled "La Paz, Lower California," but is without other 

 data. This specimen represents fairly well the Wren met with 

 much farther north, but differs from either of the others in a more 

 heavily spotted throat and breast and smaller spots on the sides 

 and belly. The latter feature is, however, not at all prominent 

 in any of the Peninsula skins I have examined and is perhaps 

 more pronounced in the present specimen than in any I have 

 seen from Lower California. 



Coming northward along the Peninsula a very heavily spotted 

 race is met with, which reaches its highest development, as far 

 as can be ascertained by the series now at hand, at San Telmo, 

 about fifty miles north of San Quintin. 



This subspecies I propose to name Helcodytes brmineicapilhis 

 bryanti, in honor of Mr. W. E. Bryant, whose name is too well 

 known in connection with the ornithology of Lower California to 

 make comment on my part necessary. 



