MAMMALS OF THE MEXICAN BOUNDARY. 



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No batrachian was collected on San Clemente Island, but Hyla 

 regilla Baird, which Mr. Henshaw obtained on Santa Cruz Island, 

 perhaps occurs there. 



Birds. 



The following-named species were observed by Mr. A. W. Anthony 

 and the writer. Of those species which are marked with an asterisk 

 {*), specimens were taken. Of water birds, only those actually seen 

 upon the land are included. 



*1. Liarus. oooidentalis Audubon. 

 2. Phalaerocorax dilophus albocilt- 



atus Ridgway. 

 *3. Phalaerocorax penicillatus 



(Brandt) . 

 *4. Ardea herodias (Linnseus). 

 5. Nycticorax nycticorax nivviiis 



(Boddaert). 

 *(). CrymopMlus fulicarius (Linnseus). 

 7. MacrorhampJiiis soolopaceus 



(Say). 

 *8. Actodromas minutilla (Vleillot). 

 *9. Ereunetes maurii Bonaparte. 

 10. Helodromas solitarius cinnamo- 

 meus ( Brewster ) . 

 *11. Heteractitis incanus (Gmelin). 

 *12. Actitis macularia (Linnseus). 

 *13. Jjlgialitis semipalmata (Bona- 

 parte). 

 *14. Arenaria interpres morineila (Liu- 



meus). 

 *15. Arenaria melanooephala (Vigors). 

 *16. Zenaidura rnaoroura (Linnspus). 

 17. Haliwetus leucocephalus (Lin- 

 nseus). 



18. Falco peregrinus anatuni (Bona- 

 parte). 



*19. Pandion haliaetus caroUnensis 

 (Gmelin). 



*20. Ceryle alcyon (Linnseus). 



*21. Empidonax insuUcola Oberholser. 



*22. Otoooris alpestris insularis C. II. 

 Townsend. 



*23. Corvus corax olarionensis Hartert. 



*24. Carpodaous mexicanus dementis 

 (Mearns). 



*25. Amphispiza belli clementea- Ridg- 

 way. 



*26. Uelospiza cinerea clementir C. H. 

 Townsend. 



*27. Pipilo m.aculatu.i clementw (J. 

 Grinnell). 



*28. Lanius ludovicianus iiiearnsi Rldg- 

 way. 



*29. Vermivora celata sordida C. H. 

 Townsend. 



*30. Salpinctes oisoletus (Say). 



*31. Thryomanes bewiclch leucophrys 

 (Anthony). 



Mr. Charles H. Townsend visited San Clemente Island on May 8, 

 1888, and January 25, 1889, and published " descriptions of three 

 new birds (Nos. 22, 26, and 29 of the above list), and gave a list of 

 six other species collected on the island, including, besides Nos. 24, 

 25, 21, and 31, two species which we did not obtain: 



*32. Ptychoramphus aleuticus (Pallas). I *33. Speotyto cunicularia 



I (Bonaparte). 



hypogoea 



In August, 1897, as publication No. 1 of the Pasadena Academy of 

 Sciences, Mr. Joseph Grinnell published a report on the birds 

 recorded during a visit to the islands of Santa Barbara, San Nicolas,- 

 and San Clemente in the spring of 1897, enumerating 31 species of 

 land birds. In this, by far the most important contribution to the 



"Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., XIII, 1890, pp. 139-140. 



