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56 (594) Pyrrhuloxia sinuata sinuata (Bonaparte) 
ARIZONA PYRRHULOXIA 
Status—Possibly a rare visitant to extreme southeastern corner of the state: 
Fort Yuma (Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, p. 90) ; specimen from 
‘*California’’ (Sharpe, Cat. Bds. British Mus., xm, 1888, p. 158). In each case the 
specimen obtained is not likely to have been secured within the present state 
limits. The species is more or less common in southern Arizona. 
57 (18.1, hyp.) Piranga rubriceps Gray 
Gray TANAGER 
Status—One instance: specimen claimed to have been shot by W. G. Blunt 
‘“about 1871’’ at Dos Pueblos (—Naples), Santa Barbara County (W. E. Bry- 
ant, Auk, 1v, 1887, p. 78). I agree with Ridgway (Bds. N. and Mid. Amer., u, 
1902, p. 776) who says: ‘‘The identification of the specimen on which the rec- 
ord is based is undoubtedly correct; but even granting no mistake has been made 
as to the specimen having actually been taken in California, the occurrence must 
have been purely fortuitous, most likely an escape from captivity, and the spe- 
cies has no claim to a place in the North American fauna.’’ The species is South 
American. 
58 (——) Lanius algeriensis Lesson 
; ALGERIAN SHRIKE 
Synonyms—Collurio elegans; Collurio ludovicianus robustus, part; Lantus 
elegans, part; Lanius robustus; White-winged Shrike. 
Status—Specimen supposed to have been obtained by Gambel in ‘‘Califor- 
nia’’? (Cassin, Proe. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1857, p. 213), and so recorded in 
many works subsequently; an Asiatic species (see Ridgway, Bds. N. and Mid. 
Amer., m1, 1904, pp. 236, 237). 
59 (664) Dendroica graciae Baird 
GRACE WARBLER 
Status—A male specimen recorded as shot near Santa Paula, Ventura Coun- 
ty, May 3, 1881 (Evermann, Auk, m, 1886, p. 185). I have elicited from Dr. B. 
W. Evermann in conversation the information that this specimen was destroyed 
by fire along with the rest of his California collection of birds and eggs. The 
possibility was suggested that the bird might have been a Townsend Warbler, 
but memory failed to provide any decisive clue. At any rate it would seem bet- 
ter for the present to hold this record in abeyance. The species occurs regularly 
in the mountains of central Arizona. 
60 (705) Toxostoma rufum (Linnaeus) 
Brown THRASHER 
Synonym—Harporhynchus rufus. 
Status—A single doubtful record: ‘‘Dr. Cooper states that in September, 
1870, he found a straggler at Clear Lake, close to the lower town’’ [==Lower 
