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CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 

 LIST OF SPECIMENS COLLECTED. 



No. 2534. Ferruginous shade on breast and abdomen. 

 No. 2396. Feathers worn off breast from setting. Length, 152 mm.; ex- 

 tent, 217 mm. 



No. 2446. Contained four very large ova. 



29, Thryothorus brevicaudus. 



GUADALUPE WREN. This rare local species has become 

 much restricted in distribution and perhaps in number since 

 Dr. Palmer obtained the only two known specimens in 1875. 

 I am informed that no collecting was done at that time 

 among the pines on the northern portion of the island, in 

 which place alone was I able to discover any trace of this 

 species; and as no collecting was done by Dr. Palmer among 

 the palms (an unlikely place for the birds to be found), I 

 infer that the two original specimens must have been found 

 toward the central portion of the island. 



The birds were timid rather than shy, being alarmed by 

 the crushing of dry branches as I worked my way amidst 

 the dense windfalls of pines, where they were found, they 



