BIKDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



209 



(55.2); tail, 48-53 (51.2); exposed culmen, 9-10 (9.6); tarsus, 1.S-J9.5 

 (18.8); middle toe, 9-10.5 (9.6).« 



Central and southern California and northern Lower California; 

 north to Stockton and Sacramento, east to southwestern Nevada (Ash 

 Meadows); breeding southward to the San Pedro Martir Mountains 

 and San Fernando, Lower California; in winter (only?) southward to 

 the Cape district of Lower California (San Jos6 del Cabo, August 30 

 to November; Triunfo, April; Santa Margarita Island, winter). 



Vireo pusillua Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 76 (Cape San Lucas, Lower 

 California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ); Check List, 1873, no. 132, part; 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 184, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 531, part.— Baihd, Review Am. 

 Birds, 1866, 360, part (Cape San Lucas, San Jos^, and Sierra San Gertrude, 

 Lower California; San Diego, California). — Cooper, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 186 

 (near San Diego); Orn. Cal., 1870, 124, part (San Diego; Sacramento; 

 Cape San Lucas). — Elliot, Illustr. New and Unfig. N. Am. Birds, -pi. i, 

 1869, pi. 7.— Baird, Bkbwer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 391, 

 part, pi. 17, fig. 14; iii, 1874, 507 (San Buenaventura, California; descr. nest 

 and eggs). — Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vi, 1874, 171 (Sacramenta, Cali- 

 fornia, June); Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 451 (do.); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 146, part.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 236 (Los 

 Angeles, June; Santa Barbara, July; Fort Tejon, Aug.). — Belding, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 410 (Stockton, etc., California; habits); v, 1883, 

 537 (La Paz, Lower California). — Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 

 302, part.— Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 176 (Cape district. 

 Lower California, autumn, winter, and spring). — Bailey (Florence M.), 

 Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 400, part. 



T'Cirfo] pusUlus Cooper, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 17, in text (Cuyamaca Mts., San 

 Diego Co., California). 



Vireo bellii pusillug Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 354, 

 part. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 633o, part. — 

 Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 184 (Ventura Co., California, Jan.). — Morcom, 

 Bull. Ridgway Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 51, part (Cohuilla Valley and San 

 Bernardino, s. California). — Geinnell (J.), Pub. ii, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 

 44 (Los Angeles Co., California; summer resid. in lowlands and foothills). — 

 Obeeholser, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, 1903, 17, 18, in text (part). 



V\ireo] bellii pusillua Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 478, part. 



a Eight specimens. 



Californian specimens compare in aver?ge measurements with those from the Cape 

 district of Lower California as follows: . 



Locality. 



Ex- 

 posed 1 Taraus. 

 culmen.; 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Eight adult males from Cape district. . . 

 Ten adult males from California 



FEMALES. 



Three adult females from Cape district 

 Five adult females from California 



9.4 

 9.4 



9.S 

 9.7 



19 

 18.! 



19 



18.' 



9.7 

 9.9 



9 8 

 9,5 



There seems to be no difference in coloration between the two series. 

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