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it only at Santiago, where, on November 21, two specimens were shot and a 
third seen in tules.on the border of the lagoon. To the northward, Mr. Bryant 
has noted it at Comondu and Jesus Maria, and Mr. Anthony has observed it 
‘‘on the northwest coast during migration” (Bryant). It probably does not 
breed on the Peninsula, for in California, where it is rather common in spring 
and autumn, and not uncommon locally in winter, it has been found in summer 
only among the mountains from 4,000 feet altitude upwards. It migrates as 
far south as Guatemala, and is common in winter in western Mexico. 
Melospiza lincolnii striata Brews. 
FoRBUSH’S SPARROW. 
Melospiza lincolni (not Fringilla lincolnii AuDuBoN) BELp1NG, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 
VI. 1883, 348, part (Victoria Mts.). Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., 
II. 1889, 303, part (Cape Region). 
Mr. Chapman has expressed some doubts? as to the validity of striata, to 
which he refers two autumn birds taken in British Columbia by Mr. 
Streator, and Mr. Ridgway, in his Birds of North and Middle America, cites 
the name, preceded by a question-mark, in his synonymy of M. lincoln. I 
see no reason why the existence of intermediate specimens, such as those to 
which Mr. Chapman calls attention, should be necessarily prejudicial to the 
recognition of the form as a subspecies, although its standing cannot perhaps he 
regarded as assured until its breeding-grounds are definitely known, and fully 
mature birds in summer plumage have been examined. 
A specimen in the United States National Museum, taken by Mr. Belding 
in the Victoria Mountains on February 20, 1883, seems to be referable to this 
subspecies, whose summer home probably lies to the northward of the United 
States on or near the Pacific coast, — perhaps in British Columbia, where the 
type specimens were obtained. 
Pipilo maculatus magnirostris Brewst. 
Mountain TOWHEE. 
Pipilo maculatus megalonyx (not Pipilo megalonyr Bairp) Bexprne, Proc. U. S. 
Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 549 (Miraflores) ; VI. 1883, 348 ( Victoria Mts.). A.O.U., 
Check List, 1886, 284, no. 588 a, part. Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d 
ser., II. 1889, 303 (San José del Cabo). 
Pipilo megalonyx Savin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, I. 1886, 409, part. 
(Lower Calif.). 
1 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., III. 1891, 148. 
