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tion throughout the San Diegan district west of the desert proper, and also on 
Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa islands. This race extends north along the coast into 
San Luis Obispo County, in the near neighborhood of which intergradation with 
falcifer takes place. The range of megalonyx extends east through the Tejon 
region to the extreme south end of the Sierra Nevada (valley of the South Fork 
of the Kern River, in Kern County). (For map and general discussion of the 
subspecies of Pipilo maculatus in California, see Swarth, Condor, xv, 1913, pp. 
167-175.) 
400 (588d, part) Pipilo maculatus falcinellus Swarth 
SACRAMENTO TOWHEE 
Synonyms—Pipilo oregonus, part; Pipilo megalonyx, part; Pipilo maculatus 
oregonus, part; Pipilo erythrophthalmus oregonus; Pipilo maculatus montanus ; 
Pipilo maculatus megalonyx, part; Oregon Towhee, part; San Diego Towhee, 
part; Spurred Towhee, part. 
Status—Common resident of the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones in 
the Sacramento Valley, parts of the San Joaquin Valley, and on both slopes of 
the Sierra Nevada. Specimens recorded south through Tulare and Inyo coun- 
ties, and north to McCloud River, Shasta County, and Callahan and Summer- 
ville, Siskiyou County (Swarth, Condor, xv, 1913, pp. 172-173). At the north the 
range of falcinellus reaches nearly to the Oregon line, and lies between the range 
of the coast form falcifer and that of curtatus of the Great Basin. 
401 (588a, part) Pipilo maculatus curtatus Grinnell 
NeEvADA TOWHEE 
Synonym—Pipilo maculatus megalonyx, part. 
Status—Fairly common in summer locally in the Warner Mountains, Modoc 
County (Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; also probably on the desert ranges southeast of the 
Sierra Nevada (A. K. Fisher, N. Amer. Fauna no. 7, 1893, p. 102). Winters 
in the valley of the lower Colorado River (J. Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 
vil, 1911, p. 310; Swarth, Condor, xv, 1913, p. 173). 
402 (588c) Pipilo maculatus clementae Grinnell 
San CLEMENTE TOWHEE 
Synonyms—Pipilo maculatus oregonus, part; Pipilo maculatus megalonyz, 
part; Pipilo megalonyx, part; Pipilo clementac, part; Spurred Towhee, part. 
Status—Common resident on San Clemente and Santa Catalina islands, 
(See Swarth, Condor, xv, 1913, pp. 171, 172.) 
403 (591.1, part) Pipilo crissalis crissalis (Vigors) 
CauirorntA Brown TowHERF 
Synonyms—Fringilla crissalis; Pipilo fuscus, part; Pipilo fuscus crissalis, 
part; California Towhee, part; Brown Finch, part. 
Status—Common resident of the central humid coast belt, at least from 
western Sonoma County to southern Monterey County (specimens in Mus. Vert. 
