1917 BIRDS OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ISLANDS 
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wing measurement of the few birds from Santa Cruz, while slightly less, is not 
enough so to merit recognition on this character. I have examined two males 
from San Miguel, one from Santa Barbara and two from Los Coronados Islands, 
but these are all in such worn plumages as to be well nigh worthless in the pres- 
ent connection. In coloration, while the island birds are frequently more brilli- 
ant than is usual among mainland specimens, occasional individuals of the latter 
are sometimes still more intense. We therefore have not a single constant crite- 
rion whereby clementis can be identified, though possibly larger series from some 
of the other islands, as the Coronados, Santa Barbara or San Miguel may de- 
velop some such character. 
130. Loxia curvirostra stricklandi Ridgway 
Mexican CrossBILL 
Lovia curvirostra stricklandi (1) Howell and van Rossem, Condor, x11, 1911, p. 210. (2) 
Willett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 74. 
Loxia curvirostra bendirei (3) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 108. 
A. van Rossem and I (7) discovered these birds to be present on Santa Cruz 
Island in the spring of 1911, in numbers sufficient to preclude the possibility of 
their being merely stragglers to the region. They were found only in the pine 
timber below the high ridges in the vicinity of Prisoner’s Harbor, and we were 
pretty sure, with careful searching, to encounter them each time that we went to 
this region, though they were rather wild and hard to locate. Van Rossem saw 
a pair April 28, and shot the male, I shot a pair from a flock of eight on May 1, 
and the former took the female to a pair, and saw three others, on the 2nd. 
There is the possibility that these birds were merely winter visitants, but I 
personally believe that they are resident on the island. The date was a late one 
for them to be lingering in a winter home, and they were evidently beginning to 
pair off. Another point is that, although a little low zonally, these pine woods 
have a very boreal appearance and should provide a suitable home for them. 
I have, with the help of J. Grinnell, carefully compared the three island 
birds now available with the large series of Loria in the Berkeley Museum of 
Vertebrate Zoology. They are practically indistinguishable from L. c. bendirei, 
and so are much closer to stricklandi than to minor. 
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131, . Passer domesticus (Linnaeus) 
ENGLISH SPARROW 
Passer domesticus (1) Dawson, Condor, xvit, 1915, p. 204. 
As yet, only accidental on the islands. On San Clemente, March 30, 1915, L. 
M. Huey and I each saw a male of this species during different times of the day. 
-This was at the corrals, and as we did not see the bird again, I am hoping that 
the charge of shot which I sent after him took effect. W. L. Dawson (7) also 
noted a lone female on Santa Cruz, April 18, 1915. 
