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CoUurio ludaviaianus, /3. excubitorides Eidqway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 

 411 (Stockton, etc., California). 



Llanius} ludovicianus gambeli Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887,467 (California; 

 U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Lanius ludovicianus gambeli Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 592; 2d ed., 1896, 

 614.— Chapman, Auk, v, 1888, 399.— Brewstek, Auk, x, 1893, 237 (Chilli- 

 wack, British Columbia; crit.); Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 172 (Cape 

 St. Lucas district, winter). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 

 2d ed., 1895, no. 622ft. — Anthony, Auk, xii, 1895, 142 (San Fernando, Lower 

 California). — Geinnell (J.), Pub. ii, Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1898, 43 (Los 

 Angeles Co., California, resident). — Brooks, Auk, xvii, 1900, 107 (Chilli- 

 wack, British Columbia). — Atkinson (W. L. ), Condor, iii, 1901, 9 (Santa 

 Clara Co., California; nesting habits). 



L^anius] l[udomciamis'] gambeli Bailey (Florence M. ), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 

 1902, 393. 



(?) Lanius ludovicianus (not of Linnseus) Ornithological Committee, Journ. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1837, 193 (Columbia E.).— Townsend (J. K.), Journ. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 152 (Columbia E.). 



Lanius ludovicianus Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., n. a., i, 1847, 44, part 

 (California); Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, 1847, 200 (CaUfornia).— Town- 

 send (0. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887", 222 (Eed Bluff and Mount 

 Lassen, n. California). 



CoUurio ludovicianus Eidgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 66 (centr. Cali- 

 fornia); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 411 (Marysville and Summit 

 Meadows, California). 



LANIUS LUDOVICIANUS ANTHONYI Meams. 

 ISLAND 8EBIE£, 



Darkest of all the forms of this species. Similar in coloration to 

 Z. I. hidovicianus, but gray of upper parts still darker (nearly slate 

 color), especially on pileum, and more uniform, the scapulars almost 

 wholly deep gray; white spot at base of primaries much smaller; 

 under parts of body much more strongly tinged with gray, becoming 

 distinctly gray (about no. 6) on sides and flanks; lateral rectrices with 

 much less of white, this extending only about 23 mm. from the tip on 

 inner web of exterior rectrix. 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 206; wing, 95; tail, 95; exposed 

 culmen, 15; tarsus, 28; middle toe, 17." 



Santa Cruz Island (Santa Barbara group), southern California. 



[CoUurio ludovicianus'] ludovicianus (not Lanius ludovicianus Linnseus) Hbnshaw, 

 Eep. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, App. Hs, 237 (Santa Cruz I., California; crit. 6). 



Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides (not Lanius excubilorides Swainson) Blake, Auk, 

 iv, 1887, 330 (Santa Cruz I.). 



Lanius ludovicianus anthonyi Mearns, Auk, xv, July, 1898, 261 (Santa Cruz I., 

 Santa Barbara group, California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 122 (Check List no. 622c). — 

 Obekholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxii, 1900, 233 (Santa Cruz I.; crit.). 



"One specimen, the type. (No. 163074, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., Santa Cruz Island, 

 Cahfornia, June 5, 1897; E. H. Beck.) 

 6 In text, under C. I. var. excabitoroides. 



