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Picolaples hrunneicapillus LAFEESNAyE, Mag. (ie Zool., 1835, 61, pi. 47 ("Cali- 

 fornia;" type now in coll. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist."). — Hebemann, Journ. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1853, 263 (Guaymas, Sonora; habits; notes; descr. 

 nest and eggs) . 



Campylorhynclms brunneioapillus Laeebsnaye, Rev. Zool., ix, 1846, 94. — Sclatek, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1856, 264, part (crit.); Cat. Am. Birds, 

 1862, 17, part (in synonymy).— Codes, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 156, part (in 

 synonymy, etc.). — Salvin and G-odman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 

 67, part (Guaymas).— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 543 (Guay- 

 mas).— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 223 (Florido, Sonora 

 or Sinaloa. !>) 



[Cdmpylorhynchus'] hrunneicapillus SoLATEEand Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 5, 

 part. 



C[ampylorhynchui\ hrunneicapillus Ripqway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 547, part 

 (G-uaymas). 



Hlfileodytes] brunneicapillv^ Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 547, 

 part (Guaymas). 



HELEODYTES BRUNNEICAPILLUS BRYANTI Anthony. 

 BRYANT'S CACTUS 'WRElf, 



Similai' to JI. h. l)run'neicqpillus, but darker and browner above, 

 with the back, scapulars, and rump alwaj^s conspicuously streaked 

 with white (as in II. h. affinis), the white streaks margined laterally 

 by a narrower streak of black; three lateral rectrices distinctly barred 

 with white (as in II. 5. affinis); under parts more uniformly marked 

 with black, the black spots on throat and chest usually either larger or 

 more numerous, those of breast, abdomen, sides, etc., larger and 

 broader (broadly guttate or sometimes almost circular); posterior 

 under parts very slightly tinged with buff. 



Adult TOafo.— Length (skins), 182-193 (187); wing, 80-88 (85.2); 

 tail, 77-79 (77.7); exposed culmen, 23-24(23.5); tarsus, 28-29.5 (28.8); 

 middle toe, 18.5-19 (18.8).'' 



Ackclt female. — Length (skin), 178; wing, 81; tail, 76; exposed cul- 

 men, 24; tarsus, 27; middle toe, 19.°' 



Coast district of San Diego County, California and northern Lower 

 California, as far southward as San Quentin;" San Pedro Martir 

 Mountains? 



« See Eidgway, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxiii, 1888, 383 (crit.). I have again care- 

 fully examined and compared the type with an extensive series of specimens from 

 various localities, and am more than ever convinced that it came from Guaymas, 

 Sonora, or some locality not far distant. It agrees minutely in measurements and 

 coloration with specimens from southern Sonora, and in both respects is very dif- 

 ferent from all examples from any other part of the country. It certainly did not 

 come from California. 



I" I have not been able to find the locality mentioned on any map. 



"Three Specimens; two (one the type) from San Telmo, the other from San Diego. 



li One specimen, from San Telmo. 



« From San Quentin to San Fernando varying toward H. h. affinis, specimens from 

 the latter locality being, according to Anthony (Auk, xi, 1894, 214), "rather nearer 

 to affinii than bryanti." 



