BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 523 



Desert region ueav southwestern herder of United States, from 

 lower Rio Grande Valley to southern California (Inyo, San Bernardino, 

 Kern, Riverside, Orange, Los Angeles, and interior of San Diego, 

 counties), and northern Lower California (Seven Wells); north to 

 southern Utah (St. George; Beaverdam Mountains), and southern 

 Nevada (Vegas Valley; Bitter Springs; between Virgin and Muddy 

 rivers); south into northern Mexico (more northern portions of States 

 of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, and Sonora." 



Picolaptes bmnneicapillus (not of Lafresnaye) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., v, 

 1852, 114 (Texas).— Baikd, in Stansbury's Rep. lit. Salt Lake, 1852, 327 

 (Texas).— Cassin, lUustr. Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1854, 156, pi. 25. • 



Campylorhynchus brunndcapillus Sclatee, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1856, 

 264, part (monogr.); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 17, part (New Mexico). — 

 Baied, Eep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 335; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 

 no. 262; Eep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 13 (Ringgold 

 Barracks, Texas; Monterey, Nuevo Leon; Fort Yuma, California); Review 

 Am. Birds, 1864, 99, part (except locality San Diego). — PIeeemann, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 41 (Colorado Desert, bet. Tejon Pass 

 and Mojave R. ; habits; descr. nest). — Dei^see, Ibis, 1865, 483 (Eagle Pass, 

 Texas, n. e. to Nueces R.). — Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866,77 

 (Arizona); 1868, 8.S (do); Check List, 1873, no. 43; 2d ed., 1882, no. 63; 

 Birds Col. Val., 1878, 156.— Butcher, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 149 

 (Laredo, Texas). — Coopee, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 183, in text (Fort Mojave, 

 California); Orn. Cal., 1870, 61, part. — Meeeiam, Sixth Ann. Rep. U. S. 

 Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1872, 1873, 713 (Utah).— Yaeeow and Henshaw, Rep. 

 Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 9 (St. George, s. Utah, Oct.). — Henshaw, 

 Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 41 (St. George, Utah), 100 (GilaR., 

 Arizona; habits); 1876, 23 (near Kernville, California); Zool. Exp. W. 

 100th Merid., 1875, 178 (Nevada; St. George, Utah; localities in Arizona; 

 s. w. New Mexico; habits). — Baied, Beewee, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 132, pi. 8, fig. 5; iii, 1874, 503 (s. Utah; s. Nevada).— Ridgway, 

 Bull. Essex Inst, vii, 1875, 35 (s. Nevada) ; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 56. — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 67, part. — Hofpmas, 

 Bull. U. S. Geol.and Geog. Surv. Terr., vi, 1881, 214 (s. Nevada).— Holtee- 

 Hopp, Orn. and Ool., vi, — , 11 (breeding habits, descr. nestand eggs, etc.). — 

 Ambeioan Oenithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 713. — Evehmann, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 185 (Ventura Co., California, summer resid.) — Lloyd, Auk, 

 iv, 1887, 297 (Tom Green Co., Texas, resident).- Moecom, Bull. Ridgw. Orn. 

 Club, no. 2, 1887, 54 (s. California).— Cooke, Bird Misr. Miss. Val., 1888, 

 270 (San Angelo and Tom Green counties, Texas). — Attwatek, Auk, ix, 

 1892, 342 (San Antonio, Texas, resident). — Neheling, Our Native Birds, 

 etc., i, 1893, 135, pi. 4, fig. 2.— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 41 

 (Oputo, n. Sonora). 



[Campylorhynchusi brunneicapiUus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 85, part. — 

 SCLATER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 5, part. 



« Specimens referable to the present form, or at least nearer to it than to H. b. 

 obscurus, have been examined from the following Mexican localities: 

 Tamaulipas. — Camargo; Nuevo Laredo. 

 Nueva Leon. — Monterey; Rodriguez; Santa Catarina. 

 Coahuila. — Sabinas. 

 Chihuahua. — Casas Grandes. 

 Sonora. — Hermosilla; Oposura. 



