BREWSTER: BIRDS OF THE CAPE REGION, LOWER CALIFORNIA, 185 
Mr. Belding and Mr. Frazar agree in considering this a rare bird in the Cape 
Region. Mr. Frazar took only five specimens, two at La Paz on January 11, 
one at Triunfo on April 21, and two at San José del Cabo on September 12 
and 22, respectively. At the place last named two others were seen, one on 
September 18, the other on October 4. Mr. Belding also obtained two at La 
Paz and, according to Mr. Bryant, a third at Todos Santos. The bird has not 
heen reported from anywhere north of La Paz on the Peninsula, and only 
three specimens are known to have occurred in California, two at Santa Cruz, 
and one at San Diego. My Lower California examples appear to be typical 
representatives of notabilis. Only one of them is at ail yellowish beneath, 
and in this the yellow is merely a faint tinge. 
The summer range of S. n. notabilis has not been definitely traced, but it 
probably lies chiefly in the interior of western North America, north of the 
United States. Mr. Chapman has recorded! two specimens taken at Ducks, 
British Columbia, in August, but this date is not sufficiently early to prove 
that they were on their breeding-grounds. Mr. Nelson refers the form which 
occurs in Alaska to noveboracensis,? but Mr. Grinnell has since reported ® that 
notabilis is moderately common in summer in the Kotzebue Sound Region, and 
Dr. Bishop has taken it in the Yukon valley.* 
Geothlypis tolmiei (Towns.). 
MACGILLIVRAY’S WARBLER. 
Geothlypis macgillivrayi Barrp, Rev. Amer. Birds, pt. I. 1865, 227 (Cape St. Lucas). 
BexpinG, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1885, 536 (Cape Region). Bryant, Proc. 
Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 310 (Cape Region). 
G.[eothlypis] macgillivrayi Bryant, Zoe, II. 1891, 192 (San José del Cabo). 
Mr. Belding found Macgillivray’s Warbler only in ‘‘ mountain cafions,” and 
marks it “rare,” but Mr. Frazar met with it in December at San José del 
Rancho, “ where it is certainly a common winter resident.” The latter ob- 
server’s collection contains eight specimens taken in November at this place, 
five shot in November, and one on April 20, at Triunfo, one killed on Novem- 
ber 15 at Santiago, and a bird obtained on February 16 at La Paz. Mr. Bryant 
records the species only from Tia Juana, where “it occurs as a migrant,” and 
from Comondu, where a female was shot in March, 1888. 
G. tolmiet is merely a migratory visitor to the southern part of California, but 
it breeds sparingly in the central and northern counties, chiefly in or near the 
mountains, and commonly in Oregon and northward into British Columbia. 
In winter it goes as far south as Panama. 
1 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., ITI. 1890, 151. 
2 Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 204. 
3 Pacif. Coast Avifauna, no. 1, 1900, 56, 57. 
# N. Amer. Fauna, no. 19, 1900, 91. 
