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south to Santa Rosalia Bay and San Fernando (breeding); east (in 

 winter only?) to the Colorado River (Fort Yuma). 



CuUcivora atricapUla (not of Swainson) Heermann, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 ii, 1853, 262, part (San Diego, California). 



Polioptila melanura (not of Lawrence) Baird, Rep. Pacifie R. R. Surv., ix, 1868, 

 382, part (San Diego, California); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 284; Birds 

 N. Am., 1860, 382, part; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 68, part (San Diego).— 

 Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, 1859, 39, part (San Diego).— Cooper, 

 Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 184 (Cajon Pass, California); Orn. Cal., i, 1870, 37, part 

 (San Diego and north in Sierra Nevada to 39°; Santa Catalina I., Oct. ).— 

 CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 284, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 37, part; Birds Col. 

 Val., 1878, 106, part. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 

 1874, 81, part, pi. 6, fig. 7; iii, 1874, 502, part (San Buenaventura, California). 



P[plioptH.a\ melanura Codes, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d. ed., 1884, 261, part. 



(.*") Poliptila (typographical error) melanura Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 

 1883, 529 (Santa Rosalia Bay, Lower California). 



Polioptila californica Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, Apr., 1881, 103 (River- 

 side, San Bernandino Co., California; coll. W. Brewster). — Ridgway, Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 29.— Sharps, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 451.— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 753. — Morcom, 

 Bull. Ridgway Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 57 (San Bernardino Co., California). — 

 Bendire, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 548 (descr. nest and eggs). — Nehr- 

 ling, Our Native Birds, i, 1893, 97. — Fisher (A. K.), North Am. Fauna, 

 no. 7, 1893, 144 (Reche Canyon, near San Bernardino, California). — Anthony, 

 Auk, xii, 1895, 143 (San Fernando, Lower California, breeding). — Grinnell, 

 (J.), Pub. 2, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 50 (Los Angeles Co., California, resi- 

 dent); Check List Calif . Birds, 1902, 73 (California range). — Swarth, Condor, 

 iv, 1902, 86 (descr. winter plumage). — Bailey (Florence M. ), Handb. Birds 

 W. U. S., 1902, 466. 



Plolioptila} californica Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887,' 570. — Hellmayr, 

 Tierreich, 18 Lief., 1903, 23. 



POLIOPTILA LEMBEYEI (Gundlach). 

 CUBAN 6NATCATGEER. 



Adult male. — Above uniform slate-gray; wings dull blackish slate or 

 slate-black with pale gray edgings, these broader and paler on tertials;" 

 upper tail-coverts and tail black, the outermost rectrix with terminal 

 two-thirds (approximately) of outer web and between terminal third 

 and half«f inner web white, the next with less of white, the third 

 broadly tipped with white; a narrow orbital ring of white; loral, 

 auricular, suborbital, and malar regions and under parts very pale 

 gray or grayish white, becoming pure white on abdomen; a curved 

 black line beginning near posterior angle of eye and extending thence 

 backward and downward, between the deep gray of wcciput and hind- 

 neck and pale gray of auricular region; maxilla black; mandible gray- 

 ish (pale bluish gray in life?) basally, blackish terminally; legs and 

 feet dusky (in dried skins); length (skins), 100-108 (103.5); wing, 40- 



