Additions, Subteactions, Emendations 



Pages 215, 216. The Wren-Tits have been revised and their ranges more 



correctly defined, and to the two forms given two more have been added. The 



four races now recognized stand as follows: 742. Wren-Tit (Chamcea fasciata 



fasciata). Characters as described and figured. 



Range.^""Upper Sonoran zone on the eastern and southern shores of San 

 Francisco Bay and ad.iacent Santa Clara "Valley" (A.; O. U.). 



742a. Pallid Wren-Tit (C. f. henshaici). Similar to 0, f. fntieiMa. "hut 

 decidedly paler, the back, scapulars, rump, etc. grayish brown (deep hair- 

 brown), the pileum and hind-neck brownish gray (nearly mouse-gray or deep 

 smoke-gray), and general color of underparts varying from very pale grayisii 

 buff to huffy ecru-drab, or nale, vinaceous-buic, fading to nearly white ou lower 

 abdomen" (Ridgway). 



Range. -^"Upper SonOran. Zone of foothills and valleys of interior and south- 

 ern California from Shasta County soutVi to northern Lower California, and along 

 the coast from Monterey Bay southward*' (A. O. Ui). 



742b. Coast Wren-Tit ((?. /. phwa). Characters as stated on page 216. 



Ranee. — "Humid Transition Zone of Pacific Coast of Oregon and northern 

 California (from CoJumbia River to Humboldt Bay)" (A. O. U.). 



742c. Ruddy Wren-Tit (C. f. rufula). Interinediate in color between No. 



742 and No. 742b. More richly colored than the former, but not so dark as the 



latter. 



Eange. — "Humid Transition coast strip of California from southern Humboldt 

 County to Santa Cruz" (A. O. U.). 



Page 217. Cancel No. 710a. Pasadena Thrasher, which proves to he the 

 same as No. 710 California Thrasher. 



Page 223. After No. 542b, add: 542d. Nevada Savannah Sparrow {P. a. 



nevadensis) . Resembles P. s. alaudinus "hut much paler throughout in all plum. 



ages; white replacing buff, black streaks thus more consp,icuou8!y contrasted, 



there being a minimum amount of hazel marginings; size slightly less." DifEers 



from P. s. savanna "as above, but in greater degree" (Grinnell, Univ. Calif, 



Pub, Zool. V, 1910, p. 312). 



Range. — "Humboldt a,nd Washoe Counties, Nevada, and probably throughout 

 Great Basin, south in winter to the Colorado Desert and Loa Angeles Co., Califor- 

 nia" (A. O. U.). 



Page 228, after No. 574b (which, as shown in the Systematic Table, now 

 becomes 574.1a) add; 574,1b. California Sage Sparrow (AmpMspiza nei^adenais 

 amescens). Similar to Amphispiza belli but size somewhat greater, and color- 

 ation throughout very much paler; resembles Amphispiza nevadensis nemdensis, 

 but size very much less, and coloration slightly darker. ^ W, 2.79; T. 3.03. 

 S W. 2.63; T. 3,87 (Grinnell). 



Range. — "Upper Sonoran Zone in Owens Valley and adjacent areas in eastern 

 California and extreme western Nevada" (A. O. U,). 



Page 229. After No. 581c. add 581s. Suisun Song Sparrow (M. m. m«a* 



300 



