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dated April 21, his earliest autumnal bird October 29. Mr. Belding mentions 
E. obscurus (= wrightiz)} as “rare in summer,” but this statement requires 
confirmation. Mr. Frazar did not take EH. wrighti at all, and his experience 
with £. griseus furnishes no evidence that the latter passes the summer in the 
Cape Region. To the northward Mr. Bryant has taken it on Santa Margarita 
Island in February and at Comondu in March, but he does not mention seeing 
it after the latter month, and Mr. Anthony apparently failed to detect it at 
any season. Hence it becomes an interesting question where the numerous 
birds which winter in the Cape Regions breed. ° 
E. griseus nests commonly in southern Arizona, and according to Mr. 
Nelson as far south in the interior of Mexico as the southern extremity of the 
table land. I have seen perfectly typical examples which were collected in 
Los Angeles county, California, by Mr. Grinnell, who reports that the species 
is apparently resident in this county, being found in small numbers in the 
neighborhood of Pasadena and El Monte in autumn, winter, and spring, and 
not uncommonly in summer, at elevations of from 7,500 to 8,500 feet ‘* in one 
limited locality, on the slopes of Mt. Waterman,” where full-fledged young 
were obtained as early as July 11, 1897.7 
Pyrocephalus rubineus mexicanus (Sct). 
VERMILION FLYCATCHER. 
Pyrocephalus rubineus mexicanus BeipinG, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 542 
(Cape Region). Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 292 
(Cape Region). 
With the exception of a single specimen seen at La Paz on February 3, the 
Vermilion Flycatcher was observed by Mr. Frazar only at San José del Cabo 
in October and November, and at Santiago during the latter month. “ It was 
confined to the vicinity of water and was not common.” Mr. Bryant “ met 
with it only in the latitude of Comondu, usually in cultivated gardens.” 
These facts indicate that it is chiefly restricted to the southern portions of the 
Peninsula, although it is known to occur in southern California as far north, 
as Ventura County. Its southward range extends to Guatemala. It probably 
breeds in the Cape Region of Lower California, but of this there is, at present, 
no definite proof. . 
Aphelocoma californica hypoleuca Rivew. 
XANTUS’S JAY. 
Cyanocitta californica (not Garrulus californicus Vicors) Bairp, Cat. N. Amer. 
Birds, 1859, no. 437, part; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 301 (Cape St. 
1 Since writing the above, I have examined two specimens (No. 86,335 and No. 
86,336, Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.) which were taken by Mr. Belding at La Paz, one on 
December 18, 1881, the other on January 5, 1882. Both prove tu be typical griseus. 
2 Grinnell, Pub. II. Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1898, 31. 
