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an old goat corral. The slightest noise would drive them 

 into the dense brush, from which they would again appear 

 when all was quiet. 



LIST OF SPECIMENS COLLECTED. 



20. Passerella iliaca unalaschensis, 



TOWNSEND'S SPAKROW. One bird was taken among the 

 pines, but so badly cut by the shot that the sex could not 

 be determined. No others were seen. 



DATA OF SPECIMEN COLLECTED. 



21. Pipilo consobrinus. 



GUADALUPE TOWHEE. The towhees were found only in 

 the large cypress grove. They were easily overlooked un- 

 less directly in one's path among the trees. When singing 

 the bird could be readily traced and secured, but in such 

 cases it was always a male. Only two females were seen, 

 and I cannot believe that their number was in any degree 

 equal to that of the males, for otherwise I do not believe it 

 possible that I could have so completely overlooked them, 

 even though they might have been setting. I was about 

 the grove at all hours of the day, camped there, and was 

 astir at break of dawn, even before the male towhee had 

 mounted his throne on the topmost branch of a cypress and 

 had sounded his morning trill. This song closely resem- 

 bles that of P. maculatus megalonyx, but has one important 



