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Mearns, Ttvo Nexv Birds from Santa Barbara Ids. 



r Auk 



Ljuly 



L. Indoviciantis. 



I am under special obligations to many friends : To Mr. 

 Ridgway for the use of the National Museum series ; to Dr. T. S. 

 Roberts, of MinneapoHs, who sent me the entire Minnesota State 

 collection ; to Dr. A. K. Fisher for the use of many specimens ; 

 to Mr. Gustave Kohn, of New Orleans ; Mr. Ora W. Knight, of 

 Maine ; Dr. C. K. Clarke, of Kingston, Ontario ; Mr. W. R. Robin- 

 son, of Wingina, Virginia, and Mr. James Gaut, of Washington, 

 D. C. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW BIRDS FROM THE 



SANTA BARBARA ISLANDS, SOUTHERN 



CALIFORNA. 



BY EDGAR A. MEARNS. 



Carpodacus dementis, new species. 

 San Clemente House Finch. 



Carpodacus frontalis Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII, No. 799, 

 1890, pp. 139 (Santa Barbai-a Island, California), 140 (San Clemente and 

 Santa Rosa Islands, California). 



Carpodacus mexicamis frontalis Grinnell, Rep. on the Birds of Santa 

 Barbara, San Nicolas and San Clemente Islands, Pub ication No. I of the 

 Pasadena Academy of Sciences, August, 1897, pp. 6 (Santa Barbara Island, 

 California), 10 (San Nicolas Island) 16 and 17 (San Clemente Island.) 



Type from San Clemente Island, California, adult male, No. 134,784, 

 U. S. National Museum. Collected bj the author, August 25, 1894. 



