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Catherpes mexicanus . . . var conspersus Codes, Check List, 1873, App. p. 125. — 

 Yarrow and Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 9 (Toquer- 

 ville, Utah; habits; notes). — Henshaw, Eep. Orn. Spec. "Wheeler's Surv., 

 1874, 41 (Utah, resident); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 181, part 

 (Toquerville, Utah; Colorado; habits). 



\_Catherpes mexicanus.'] (i. conspersus Eidgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 420 

 (Nevada and Utah, resident; habits; song). 



Catherpes mexicanus, fi. conspersus Ridgway, Field and Forest, iii. May, 1877, 196 

 (Colorado). 



Catherpes mexicanus conspersus Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan. 1875, 10, 20 

 (Carson City and East Humboldt Mts., Nevada) ; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 59o, part. — Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 164, part; Check List, 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 67, part.— Minot, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 181 (Manitou, 

 Colorado; descr. nest and eggs), 225 (habits, etc.). — American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 717a, part. — Nehhlikg, Our Native 

 Birds, i, 1893, 139, part, pi. 9. — Fisher (A. K.), North American Fauna, 

 no. 7, 1893, 133 (Panamint Mts., etc., s. e. California).— Cooke, Bull. 37. 

 Col. Agric. Coll., 1897, 120 (Colorado, resident).— Grinnell (J.), Pacific 

 Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 68 (s. e. California; desert ranges east of Sierra 

 Nevada). — Oberholser,. Auk, xx, 1903, 198 (diagnosis; range). 



Clatherpesl mlexicanus'] conspersus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 276, 

 part.— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 445, part, pi. 



Clatherpes] mexicanus conspersus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 549, part. 



Catherpes mexicanus . . . var. Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am, 

 Birds, i, 1874, pi. 8, fig. 4. a 



CATHERPES MEXICANUS PUNCTULATUS Ridgway. 

 DOTTED CANTOlf WHEN. 



Similar in small size to G. m. conspersus, but decidedly darker (inter- 

 mediate in coloration between G. m. mexicanus and C. in. albifrons). 



Adult mafe.— Length (skins), 120-137 (130.6); wing, 55.6-62.5 

 (59.4); tail, 47.5-54.5 (51.6); exposed culmen, 19-21.5 (20.5); tarsus, 

 17.5-19 (18.6); middle toe, 12.5-14 (13.4).^ 



Adult female.— L&ngi\x (skins), 119-129 (125); wing, 56-56.5 (56.2); 

 tail, 46.5-50 (47.8); exposed culmen, 20''; tarsus, 17-18 (17.7); middle 

 toe, 13-14 (13.5).<« 



California, except southeastern and extreme southern portions; 

 north to Butte, Shasta, and Napa counties, south to western portion 

 of Riverside County (Elsinore), and northern part of Kern County 

 (Kernville). 



Troglodytes mexicanus (not Thryothorus mexicanus Swainson) Heeemann, Journ. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1853, 263 (Cosumnes and Calaveras rivers, Cali- 

 fornia); Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 41 (do.). — Cassin, lUustr. 

 Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1854, 173, part (Cosumnes and Calaveras rivers, Cali- 

 fornia) . 



"' The specimen figured is the type of C. m. conspersus, from Nevada, and not from 

 Mexico, as erroneously stated in the text, 

 ft Seven specimens. 

 «0ne specimen. 

 <* Three specimens. 



