520 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Heleodyles brunneicapillus brijanti, Anthony, Auk, xi, July, 1894, 211, 212 (San 

 Telmo, Lower California; coll. A. W. Anthony); xii, 1895, 142 (San Fer- 

 nando, Lower California; habits; notes) . — American Oknithologists' Union, 

 Check List, 2d ed., 1895, 166, no. 713a.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d 

 ed., 1896, 609.— Meaens, Auk, xix, 1902, 143, 145 (diagnosis; range). 



Illeleodytes] blrunneicapillusl trj/anii Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. 

 U. S., 1902, 443. 



Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus (not of Lafresnaye) Baird, Review Am. Birds, 

 1864, 99, part (San Diegb, CaUfornia) .-Cooper, Orn. Cal., i, 1870, 61, part 

 (San Diego).— CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 43, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 63, 

 part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 156, part (San Diego). — Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 132, part (San Diego). — Ridgway, 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 56, part. — Emerson, Bull. Cal. Ac. Sci., no. 7, 

 1887, 430 (Poway Valley, San Diego Co., California). 



{Campylorhynchus^ bruiineicapillus Coves, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 85, part. 



C'lampylorhynchus] brunneicapillus Codes, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 275, 

 part. — Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 547, part. 



(?) Campylorhynchus affinis (not of Xantus?) Anthony, Zoe, iv, 1893, 245 (San 

 Pedro Martir Mts., Lower California). 



HELEODYTES BRUNNEICAPILLUS AFFINIS (Xantus). 

 ST. LTJCAS CACTUS WREN. 



Most like H. h. hryanti but much paler, with under parts less heavily 

 and more sparsely marked with black; color of pileum and hindneck 

 more reddish brown (mummy brown to chestnut-brown), the feathers 

 often with paler terminal small spots or streaks; all the rectrices, ex- 

 cept middle pair, with distinct white bars on both webs; under parts 

 more purely white (distinctly tinged with buff posteriorly only in fresh 

 autumnal plumage), the black marking on lower parts of body broadly 

 guttate, those on throat and chest but little larger (never large and 

 confluent as is often the case in other subspecies), but of different 

 (irregular and variable) form. 



Adult ma^<?.— Length (skins), 172-197 (182.8); wing, 80.5-88.6 (86.3); 

 tail, 72-81(77.5); exposed culmen, 21-24.5(23.5); tarsus, 27.5-30 (29); 

 middle toe, 18-21 (19.7). « 



Adult female.— Length, (.skins), 170-190 (184.5); wing, 76-88 (81); 

 tail, 71-79 (74.9); exposed culmen, 22-24 (23.1); tarsus, 27-30 (28.4); 

 middle toe, 18-22 (19.4). * 



Cape district of Lower California (Cape St. Lucas; San Jos4 del 

 Cabo; La Paz; San Telmo Valley). 



Campylorhynchus affinis Xant.us, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 298 (Cape St. 

 Lucas, Lower California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Baird, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1859, 301, 303; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 100.— Sclater, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 162 ("California.")— Elliot, lllustr. New and Unfig. Birds N. 

 Am., i, 1869, pi. 4.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 62 (Cape St. Lucas).— Conss, 

 Check List, 1873, no. 44; 2d ed., 1882, no. 64; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 154, 

 footnote. — Baibd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 133 

 pi. 8, fig. 6.— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 57.— Beldinq, Proc. 



« Ten specimens. 6 Eight specimens. 



