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nell, Bds. Los Angeles Co., 1898, p. 40) ; San Bernardino and San Jacinto moun- 
tains (Anthony, Auk, x1, 1895, p. 348). Only three stations of occurrence, either 
in migration or in winter: Santa Catalina Island, three specimens (Oberholser, 
Proce. U. 8. Nat. Mus., xx, 1900, p. 233) ; Little Pime Mountain, Santa Barbara 
County, September, and San Geronimo, Marin County, frequent during midwin- 
ter (J. Mailliard, Condor, x1v, 1912, p. 63; ibid., xv, 1913, p. 93). The latter, 
as a wintering place for this bird, is most extraordinary, as being some 175 miles 
north of the northernmost known breeding place. 
397 (588b, part) Pipilo maculatus oregonus Bell 
OrEGON TOWHEE 
Status—Rare visitant; I have seen just one skin from California which I 
should consider properly referable to oregonus: a female, now no. 21273, Mus. 
Vert. Zool., taken by C. B. Linton on San Clemente Island, December 4, 1908 
(original record: Condor, x1, 1909, p. 194) ; evidently a straggler far from its 
normal range. This specimen was recently in the Thayer Museum, but has been 
donated by J. E. Thayer ‘to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, as above indi- 
cated. Although oregonus has been recorded many times from the coast district 
of California, and even now is given (A. O. U. Check-List, 3rd ed., 1910, p. 280) 
as breeding south to San Francisco and wintering to southern California, there 
seems to be sufficient reason for employing the name falcifer (which see) for 
the birds of the coast belt south to Monterey County; and, after examining all 
available material with this point in view, I find not one good specimen of ore- 
gonus from within the state, even as a winter visitant, save for the San Clemente 
specimen as above recorded. This accords with the views of H. 8. Swarth (Con- 
dor, xv, 1913, pp. 169-172). 
398 (588b, part) Pipilo maculatus falcifer McGregor 
San Francisco TOWHEER 
Synonyms—Pipilo megalonyx, part; Pipilo oregonus, part; Pipilo macula- 
tus oregonus, part; Pipilo maculatus megalonyx, part; Oregon Towhee, part; 
Oregon Ground Robin. 
Status—Common resident of the humid coast belt, from Humboldt County 
south to southern Monterey County, including also the San Francisco Bay re- 
gion. Specimens verifying the above statement of range are in the Museum of 
Vertebrate Zoology. The numerous records of the ‘‘Oregon Towhee’’ from the 
area above indicated very probably all belong under this heading. (See Swarth, 
Condor, xv, 1918, p. 171.) 
399 (588d, part) Pipilo maculatus megalonyx Baird 
SPURRED TOWHEE 
Synonyms—F'ringilla arctica; Pipilo arcticus; Pipilo oregonus, part; Pipilo 
megalonyx, part; Pipilo maculatus oregonus, part; Pipilo maculatus atratus; 
Pipilo maculatus clementac, part; Oregon Towhee, part; San Diego Towhee, 
part; San Clemente Towhee, part; California Ground Robin. 
Status—Common resident of Upper Sonoran and, locally, of Lower Transi- 
