BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEIOA. 567 



Thryothorus beivicMi, var. spilurus Baied, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 126, part 



(Simialimoo and Fort Steilacoom, Washington).— Baied, Bebwee, and 



RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 147, part. 

 Thryothorus bewickii . . . var. spilurus Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 486, part. 

 IThryothorus bewickii] c. spilurus Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 31, part (in 



synonymy). 

 Thryothorus bewicki spilurus Coues, Check List, 2d ed. , 1882, no. 73, part. 

 Tlhryothorus'].blewicki] spilurus? Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2ded., 1884, 278, part. 

 Thryothorus bewickii spilurus Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 346, 



part. — Ameeican Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 719a, part. — 



Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 171 (Washington Co., Oregon).— Chapman, Bull. 



Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1890, 152 (British Columbia, chiefly coastwise).— 



Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 43.— Laweence (R. H.), Auk, ix, 



1892, 357 (Grays Harbor, Washington, resident). 

 Tlhryothorusi bevnckii spilurus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 551, part. 

 Thryothorus spilurus Cooper, Orn. CaL, 1870, 69, part. — Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., vi, 1881, 225, part (British Columbia). — Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 



2ded., 1896, 609, part. 

 \_Thryomanes bewicki leucogaster'] c. spilurus Cohes, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 170, part 



(in synonymy). 

 Thyromanes bewicki spilurus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 170, 215, 



part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 61a, part. 

 Thyromanes bewickii spilurus Kobbb, Auk, xvii, 1900, 357 (Cape Disappointment, 



Washington). 

 Thryomanes bewickii calophonus Obeeholsee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxi, no. 1153, 



Nov. 19, 1898, 440 (South Park, King Co., Washington; coll. U. S. Nat. 



Mus.). — American Oenithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xviii, 1901, 



307 (check list no. 719e).— Rathbun (S. F.), Auk, xix, 1902, 139 (Seattle, 



Washington, resident). 

 [hryomanes} blewickii'] calophonus Bailey (Florence M. ), Handb. Birds 



W. U. S., 1902, 447. 



THRYOMANES BREVICAUDUS Ridgway. 

 GUADALUPE WREN. 



Practically identical in coloration with T. hewicMi charienturus 

 except tail (the middle rectrices of which are more narrowly and 

 much less distinctly barred), but much smaller, tail relatively shorter, 

 and bill much longer. 



Adult male.— length (skins), 110-118 (114); wing, 48^8.5 (48.2); 

 tail, 42-44.5(43.2); exposed culmen, 16; tarsus, 17.5-18(17.7); middle 

 toe, 12-12.5 (12.2).« 



Guadalupe Island, Lower California. 



Thryomanes brevicauda Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., ii, no. 



- 2, Apr. 1, 1876, 186 (Guadalupe I., Lower California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); 



Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 60; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 170, 215, 



228; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 62. — Ameeican Oenithologists' Union 



Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 125. 



«Two specimens, with sex undetermined, measure as follows. Their smaller 

 dimensions indicate that they may be females: Length (skins), 111-114.5 (112.7); 

 wing, 46-46.5 (46.2); tail, 41^3 (42); exposed culmen, 17; tarsus, 18-18.5 (18.2); 

 middle toe, 11.5-12 (11.7). 



