BREWSTER: BIRDS OF THE CAPE REGION, LOWER CALIFORNIA. 191 
Mr. Frazar met with the Long-tailed Chat only at San José del Cabo, where 
eight specimens were taken at various dates between September 15 and Octo- 
ber 25. Mr. Belding notes it as rare, without mentioning just when or 
where he found it. Mr. Bryant says that it is common at Comondu ‘nesting 
in the bushes of the creek.” The Mexicans call it the “ ‘arriero’ from the 
resemblance of its whistle to that made by a mule driver.” Mr. Anthony con- 
siders it “common in the lower valleys” about San Pedro Martir, but it was 
“only seen occasionally along the base of the mountain.” In summer it 
ranges as far north as Oregon, breeding rather freely throughout most of Cali- 
fornia, and in winter it is not uncommon in western Mexico. 
Wilsonia pusilla pileolata (Patt.). 
PILEOLATED WARBLER. 
Myjiodioctes pusillus pileolatus Ripeway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus, V. 1888, 533, foot- 
note (Agua Escandida; Sierra San Gertrude). Brxpine, Jbid., VI. 1883, 
850 (La Paz and s.). 
Sylvania pusilla pileolata Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 313 
(Cape Region) ; Zoe, IL. 1891, 188 (San José del Cabo). 
Mr. Belding gives this species as rare, but states that it was observed at 
several places in the lowlands about La Paz and southward. Mr. Frazar took 
only two specimens at La Paz, the first on February 5, the second on March 
21. On the Sierra de la Laguna he shot a female on May 4, and a male on 
May 31. After this none were seen until August 25, when a specimen was 
taken at San José del Cabo. Here the bird soon became common, its num- 
bers increasing steadily up to the middle of October after which they dimin- 
ished rapidly. This, with the fact that only one or two were seen at San José 
del Rancho in December, led Mr. Frazar to conclude that the majority pass to 
the southward of the Cape before winter sets in. Mr. Bryant “found a few 
at Comondu in March, before the migration northward had ended.” Mr. An- 
thony states that about the middle of May, 1893, ‘‘ before we left the pine belt ” 
on San Pedro Martir, “ this warbler had become common along the streams; 
more abundant, however, in the lower valleys during migrations.” 2 Aside 
from this statement there is no present evidence to indicate that the Pileolated 
Warbler breeds anywhere on the Peninsula, but it is a rather.common sum- 
mer resident of most parts of California and northward, along or near the coast, 
into Alaska. It migrates southward as far as Costa Rica and Panama. 
1 Zoe, IV. 1893, 245. 2 Ibid. 
