252 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Llanius} lludovicianus] anthonyi Bailey (Florence M. ), Handb. Birds W. V. S., 



1902, 393. 

 Laniuis anthonyi Gkinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, June 25, 1902, 62. 



LANIUS LUDOVICIANUS MEARNSI, new subspecies.a 

 SAIf CLEICENIE SHRIKE. 



Similar to Z. I. anthonyi, but upper tail-coverts abruptly white, 

 more white on scapulars, white spot at base of primaries larger, and 

 under parts of body much less strongly tinged with gray. In white 

 upper tail-coverts, greater extent of white on posterior scapulars and 

 at base of primaries, similar to i. I. gambeli, but the gray of upper 

 parts very much darker (quite as dark as in Z. I. anthonyi), and with 

 much less of white at base of primaries and on lateral rectrices. 



Adult female.— hength (skins), 200-208 (204); wing, 93-96(94.3); 

 tail, 88-100 (94.7); exposed culmen, 15-16 (15.7); tarsus, 26-27 (26.7); 

 middle toe, 16-17 (16.3).* 



San Clemente Island, Santa Barbara group, southern California; 

 Santa Margarita Island, Lower California (Pacific side). 



(?) Lanius ludovidanus excubitorides (not Lanius excubilorides Swainson?) Bryant 

 ■ (W. E.), Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci., ii, 1887, 306 (Guadalupe I., Lower Califor- 

 nia, 2 specs., Dec). 



Lanius ludovidanus gambeli (not of Ridgway) Geinnell, Eep. Birds Santa Bar- 

 bara Islands, etc., 1897, 19 (San Clemente I.; habits; descr. nest and eggs); 

 (?) Auk, XV, 1898, 235 (Santa Catalina I.). 



Family CORVID^. 



THE CROWS AMD JAYS. 



Rather large to very large" " conirostral " or "cultrirostral" ten- 

 primaried acutiplantar Oscines without subterminal notch to maxil- 

 lary tomium; the planta tarsi separated, more or less distinctly, from 

 the acrotarsium by a narrow interval which is either smooth or occu- 

 pied by small roundish or ovate scales, the outer plantar lamina, with 

 the lower portion (sometimes one- third or more), divided into trans- 

 verse scutella; nostrils covered, more or less, by a tuft of antrorse 

 plumules, or, if exposed, circular and without distinct overhanging 

 membrane, or else*^ longitudinal, with prominent superior operculum; 

 outermost (tenth) primary shorter than secondaries, not more (usually 

 less) than half as long as longest primary. 



Bill variable in shape, but always more or less elongate, compressed 

 conical, with culmen more or less strongly curved terminally," never 



"Type, no. 134781, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., adult female, San Clemente Island, 

 Santa Barbara group, southern California, Aug. 27, 1894; Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, TJ. 8. A. 



!> Three specimens; two from San Clemente Island, one from Santa Margarita 

 Islands, Lower California. The latter and one of the former not quite adult, retain- 

 ing traces of the juvenile plumage. 



"The ravens are the largest of Passerine birds. 



<^ In the genus Cyanocephalus. 



« Except in Cyanocephalus, which also has the terminal portion of the culmen 

 flattened. 



