BREWSTER: BIRDS OF THE CAPE REGION, LOWER CALIFORNIA. 207 
Auriparus flaviceps (not Aegithalus flaviceps SUNDEVALL) Barrp, Rey. Amer. Birds, 
pt. I. 1864, 85, 86, part (crit.; Cape St. Lucas). Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, ° 
51, part (Cape St. Lucas). Cougs, Check List, 1873, 11, no. 37, part; 2d 
ed., 1882, 29, no. 56, part. Barirp, Brewer, and Rrpeway, Hist. N. Amer. 
Birds, I. 1874, 112, 113, part (breeding at Cape St. Lucas; nesting habits). 
Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, I. 1880, 59, part (breeding 
at Cape St. Lucas; descr. male from Cape St. Lucas). RipGway, Nom. N. 
Amer. Birds (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 21), 1881, 14, no. 50, part. Brtprne, 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 535 (Cape Region), 547 (breeding at La Paz) ; 
VI. 1883, 345 (Cape Region). <A. O.U., Check List, 1886, 338, no. 746, part. 
Bryant, Proce. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 318 (throughout Penin- 
sula). Townsenp, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII..1890, 187 (Cape St. Lucas). 
[Auriparus] flaviceps Coues, Key N. Amer. Birds, 1872, 82, part (Lower Calif.). 
A. [uriparus] flaviceps Cours, Key N. Amer. Birds, 4th ed., 1894, 269, part (Lower 
Calif.). Rrp@way, Man. N. Amer. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 565 part (Lower 
Calif.). 
Auriparus flaviceps lamprocephalus OBERHOLSER, Auk, XIV. 1897, 390-894 (orig. 
descr. ; type from Cape St. Lucas). A. O. U. Comm., Auk, XVI. 1899, 126, 
no. 746 a. 
[Auriparus flaviceps] var. lamprocephala Duxsois, Synop. Avium, fase. VII. 1901, 
468 (Basse-Californie). 
Mr. Bryant says that this Verdin is ‘‘a common species throughout the 
peninsula,” but he adds that Mr. Belding doubts if it occurs “ north of lat. 32°, 
unless on the eastern side.” Mr, Anthony reports it as “ quite common in all 
of the country south of San Quintin,” but he does not mention meeting with 
it anywhere to the northward of that place.1 These statements were made, of 
course, before the subspecies lamprocephalus had been separated by Mr. Ober- 
holser, who gives its habitat as “California inferior australis,” adding “no 
specimens from the upper half of Lower California have been examined.” 
Mr. Bryant, however, in a previous paper,” in which he proposed to distinguish 
the same bird under a name which has been since shown by Mr. Oberholser 
to be untenable, refers to it apparently all the specimens of the Verdin which 
he had ‘collected in Lower California,” as well as others from Los Angeles 
and San Diego counties, California. 
Mr. Frazar found Baird’s Verdin abundant everywhere in the Cape Region 
except on the Sierra de la Laguna, where none were met with. It was breed- 
ing at La Paz in March, at Triunfo in April, and apparently at San José del 
Cabo in November, for on the third of that month Mr. Frazar found two nests 
about half completed on which the birds were busily at work, A week later 
another Verdin was noticed carrying feathers in its bill. doubtless for the lining 
of its nest, and still later (on November 17) a fourth was observed at Santiago 
collecting building material. 
1 Auk, XII. 1895, 148. 
2 Zoe, I. 1890, 149. 
