BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 723 
Adult female—Length (skins), 105-119 (112); wing, 107-117 
(111.9); tail, 36-39.5 (87.1); exposed culmen, 4.5-5.5 (5.1); tarsus, 
10-11.5 (10.8); middle toe, 7-8 (7.5).¢ 
Western United States, British Columbia (Nisqually; Goldstream; 
Lake La Hache; New Westminster; Vancouver Island; Sicamous) and 
southern Alaska (Revillagigedo Island; Boca de Quadra; Chickamin 
River; Broadfield Canal; Thomas Bay), east to Montana (Silver, Mis- 
soula County), western Nevada (Pyramid Lake Reservation), and New 
Mexico(?); south to Lower California (San José del Cabo; San Pedro 
Martir Mountains; between San Rafaél and San Pedro Martir Moun- 
tains; Tia Juana; Salton River), and through Mexico, in States of 
Morelos (Cuernavaca), Jalisco (San Sebastian), Tlaxcala (Laguna del 
Rosario), Mexico (Valley of Mexico), Puebla, Vera Cruz (Rio Seco, 
near Cérdova; Motzorongo), and Oaxaca (Guichicovi) to highlands 
of Guatemala (Mazatenango; Alotenango; Coban; Duefias; Raxché) 
and Honduras. ? 
Cypcelus vauxit TowNsEND, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 148 (Ft. Van- 
. couver, Columbia River). 
Cypcelus vauxit TOWNSEND, Narrative, 1839, 348. 
Chextura vauxii DE Kay, Zool. N. Y., ii, 1844, 36.—Barrp, Rep. Pacific R. R. 
Surv., ix, 1858, 145; ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), 145, pl. 18; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 
1859, no. 110.—KENnNERLY, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, pl. 18, 
fig. 2 (no text) —Cooprr and Sucxey, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 
1860, 165 (Straits of Fuca, Washington).—SciaTer, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 
282; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, 100 (monogr.); 1865, 611 (monogr.; crit.); 
Journ. fiir Orn., 1867, 133.—Coorzr, Orn. Calif., 1870, 351 (Coast Range, near 
Santa Clara, California); Auk, iv, 1887, 92 (Ventura Co., California) —Hxn- 
sHAW, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler’s Surv., 1876, 256 (Tején Mts., California).— 
Ripeway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 188; ix, 1886, 158 (Laguna del 
Rosdrio, Tlaxcala; crit.); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 352.—SumicHRAsT, 
La Naturaleza, v, 1881, 250 (Rio Seco, near Cérdova, Valley of Mexico).— 
FERRARI-PEREZ, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 158 (Laguna del Rosario, 
Tlaxcala).—Scort, Auk, iii, 1886, 429 (Santa Catalina Mts., 3,000-4,000 ft., 
Arizona, Oct.)—AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Union, Check List, 1886, 
no. 424.—Bryant (W. E.), Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., ser. 2, 1889, 288 (bet. 
San Rafaél and San Pedro Martir, Lower California) —Fannin, Check 
List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 30 (e. and w. of Cascade Range on mainland).— 
Ruoaps, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1898, 44 (Nisqually, Goldstream, and 
Lake La Hache, Brit. Columbia).—FisHEer (A. K.), North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 
1893, 55 (Olancha, Owens Lake, Yosemite Valley, Three Rivers, and Visalia, 
California) —ANTHONY, Zoé, iv, 1893, 236 (Tia Juana, etc., San Pedro Martir 
Mts., Lower California)—Brnpire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 183, 
pl. 1, fig. 26 (egg).— Dawson, Wilson Bull., no. 10, 1896, 4 (Lake Chelan, 
Okanogan Co., e. Washington, breeding); Auk, xiv, 1897, 175 (Okanogan Co., 
« Ten specimens. 
5 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1894, 376. Possibly the specimen 
from Honduras and some of those from Guatemala referred to C. vauzxti by the authors 
of the “Biologia” are C. richmondi, as are most certainly those from Nicaragua and 
Costa Rica. 
