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Scolecophagus cyanocephalus (Waét.). 
BREWER’S BLACKBIRD. 
Scolecophagus cyanocephalus BeLp1NG, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 546 (San José 
del Cabo), 547 (San José). Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2d ser., I. 
1889, 295 (San José del Cabo). 
Mr. Frazar took only two specimens of Brewer’s Blackbird, the first at La Paz 
on February 15, the second at San José del Cabo on October 28; his notes also 
refer to a flock seen at the latter place on October 15, Mr. Belding, in the list 
of birds “ found at San José del Cabo from April 1 to May 17,’’ characterizes 
the species as ‘common, breeding,’’ but this is almost certainly a mistake, for 
on the next page he states that it was “rarely seen in May.” Mr. Bryant says 
nothing about its breeding in the central or northern portions of Lower Cali- 
fornia, but merely mentions two flocks seen near Comondu in March, 1888, and 
small flocks observed at San Ignacio about the middle of April, adding “* Mr. 
Anthony has found them at times in small flocks on San Pedro Martir.” 
The latter observer has since reported that in 1893 they were “ common 
in all of the lower valleys,” about San Pedro Martir and that “at San Vicente 
a large colony had taken possession of the old olive trees at the abandoned 
mission and dozens of nests with eggs were seen on April 28. At La Grulla 
they were nesting in the pines in early May.”! Mr. Anthony also found a 
few birds near San Fernando, where they “ were probably nesting at the mission, 
as they were seen until the last of June.” ? 
Brewer’s Blackbird breeds throughout California, where it also winters, at 
least as far north as Contra Costa and Alameda counties. Its summer range 
on the Pacific coast extends into British Columbia, and it migrates south in 
winter to the table-lands of Mexico. 
Carpodacus mexicanus ruberrimus Rivew. 
St. Lucas House Finca. 
Carpodacus frontalis (not Fringilla frontalis Say) Barrp, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
1859, 301, 304 (Cape St. Lucas). Satvin and Gopmay, Biol. Centr.-Amer., 
Aves, I. 1886, 421, 422, part (crit.; Cape St. Lucas). 
Carpodacus frontalis, var. rhodocolpus (not Carpodacus rhodocolpus CABANIS) BarrD, 
Brewer, and Rrpeway, Hist. N. Amer. Birds, I. 1874, 468, part (deser. Cape 
St. Lucas bird). 
Carpodacus frontalis rhodocolpus Betprne, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 537 (Cape 
Region). Ripeway, Jbrd. (descr. ad. males). 
Carpodacus Srontalis ruberrimus RrpGway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, 1887, 391, footnote 
(orig. descr. ; provis. name for S. Lower Calif. bird, based on Cape St. Lucas 
1 Zoe, IV. 1898, 239. 2 Auk, XII. 1895, 140. 
