‘oad Antuony, New Birds from Lower California. 165 
Lower California, north of 27°. In advance of a more complete 
paper on the avifauna of this interesting region the following new 
species are described. 
Carpodacus mcgregori, sp. nov. McGrecor’s House FINCH. 
Sp. char.— Nearest C. amplus but slightly smaller, with more com- 
pressed and laterally flattened mandible, longer tail and different color- 
ation; larger than C. mentcanus frontalis, bill much larger, its lateral 
outlines viewed from above, parallel for nearly half the length. Red 
colors replaced by orange tints. 
Type, ad. &, No. 7393 coll. A. W. A., San Benito Island, Lower 
California,’ Sept«7, 1896. Above dark olive gray heavily streaked with 
blackish slate; rump pinkish orange; forehead, superciliary stripe, and 
malar region orange vermilion; chin, throat and breast lighter, 
approaching orange chrome; rest of lower parts whitish, heavily streaked 
with slaty; wings and tail dusky brown, primaries and tail-feathers edged 
with whitish; wing-coverts edged and tipped with bufty white. Wing, 
81 mm.; tail, 73; culmen, 13; depth of bill, 11. Habitat, San Benito 
Islands, Lower California. 
a 
A. Carpodacus amplus. 
B. C. megregori. 
C. C. mexicanus frontalis 
I take great pleasure in naming this very strongly marked 
species in honor of my friend Mr. R. C. McGregor of Palo Alto, 
Cal., in recognition of valuable assistance he has often rendered 
me. The basal third of the bill is slightly compressed laterally so * 
that viewed from above the lateral outlines are parallel for nearly 
one half of the length. A series of from two to four more or less 
well defined grooves run from the anterior border of the nostril 
parallel with the culmen nearly to the commissure. 
‘In a note on Ammodramus sanctorum (Auk, Vol. XIV, p. 92) Dr. 
Elliott Coues, places the San Benito Islands in the Gulf of California; their 
true position is about twenty miles west of Cerros Island — on the Pacific side 
of the peninsula — or about Lat. 28° 20/’, and Long. r1r5°-35/. 
