294 GRINNELL, A New Towhee from California. : fuly 
Full clutches of fresh eggs may be found on the zoth of May, 
and I found one nest containing young just hatched on the 4th of 
June, 1893. 
Although I have seen a number of small snakes, throughout 
these ponds and swamps, drop off the lower branches of the trees 
and bushes at my approach, I have never found any nests of the 
Parula Warblers which had been disturbed by them. 
On May 21, 1894, after a heavy wind and rain storm which 
lasted some four or five days, the swamps in northern Cape May 
County were completely flooded. I found one Parula’s nest 
during this storm which had been washed out, and _ probably 
many others on the lower branches were destroyed. The land 
bordering one of these swamps northwest of Dennisville, which 
on May 18 seemed very dry, was also flooded for some distance, 
and many Black and White Warblers, a nest of which was found 
here on that date, were seen feeding among the trees, and no 
doubt not only their nests, but many others of the ground nesting 
species were destroyed. 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TOWHEE FROM CALIFORNIA. 
BY JOSEPH GRINNELL. 
Pipilo clementz, new species. SAN CLEMENTE TOWHEE. 
Specific characters. — Ditters from P. maculatus megalonyx in its larger 
size, and in having the dark upper and anterior parts in both sexes of a 
much lighter shade. 
Type, & ad., No. 2290, Coll. J. G., Smuggler’s Cove, San Clemente 
Island, California, Mar. 31, 1897. 
Head and neck all around sooty seal brown, purest and darkest on the 
throat. Upper parts, including wings and tail, sooty, ‘washed’ with 
olive-gray. Rump lighter. Upper tail-coverts finely barred with dusky. 
Distribution of white markings, and rest of plumage, as in g P. m. 
megalonyx. 
Type, ad. No. 2291, Coll. J. G., Smuggler’s Cove, San Clemente 
Island, California, Mar. 31, 1897. 
