May, 1S93.] 



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Pipilo fuscus mesoleucus. Canon To'wliee. 



Mr. Bailey found the canon towhee abundant among the lulls at 

 Mineral Park, in western Arizona, during the middle of February, 1889, 

 and later in the same month saw a few near Fort Mohave. 



Pipilo fuscus crissalis. California Towhee. 



The California towhee was common among the chaparral in a number 

 of localities west of the Sierra Nevada. At Oajon Pass, in the San 

 Bernardino Mountains, it was very common from the lower part of the 

 valley, well up on the divide among the oaks, January 2-3, and Dr. 

 Merriam found it abundant at the same place, March 29-30. It was 

 common on the western slope of Walker Pass, July 2-3; along the val- 

 ley of the Kern Biver, July 3-13, and abundant in Walker Basin, July 

 13-1G. Mr. Palmer reported it as abundant at Old Fort Tejon in July; 

 Mr. Stephens at Reche Canon, September 22-24, and Mr. Nelson as very 

 abundant in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada in August. It 

 was common at Three Rivers, July 25-30, aud September 12-15, and 

 Mr. Bailey noted it along the East Fork of the Kaweah River nearly 

 up to the lower edge of the pines. The same observer found it common 

 at Monterey the first week in October; Mr. Nelson reported it as 

 abundant among the brush along the western edge of the San Joaquin 

 Valley in October, and along the coast from San Simeon to Carpenteria 

 and Santa Paula in November and December. 



Record of specimens collected of Pipilo fuscus crissalis. 



Col- I 

 lector's ' 



No. I 



Sex. 



ID ; 



18 ! 



49 i 



364 i 



? 



d 



d 



9 ad. 



Ini. 



9 im. 



d ad. 



d 



Locality. 



San Bernardino, Calif. 



do 



Argus Range, Calif . . . 



Walker Pass, Calif 



do 



do 



Kern River, Calif 



Ventura River, Calif. . 



Date. 



Jan. 1, 1891 

 ...do 



Apr. 25, 1891 

 Jnlv 2, 1891 

 July 3,1891 



. . . -do 



July 4,1891 

 Dec. 20, 1891 



Collector. 



A. K. Fisher 



...do 



F. Stephens . 

 A. K. Fisher 

 V. Bailey . . . . 



do 



A. K. Fisher 

 E. W. Nelson 



Remarks. 



Searl's Garden. 



South Fork. 



Pipilo aberti. Abert's Towhee. 



The westernmost locality at which Dr. Merriam and Mr. Bailey saw 

 Abert's towhee is the Bend of the Colorado River, in Nevada, where 

 it was common, and a full grown young was secured, May 4. Thence 

 northward they found it common in the valleys of the Virgin and 

 lower Muddy, May 6-8, where Beaverdam Creek joins the Virgin in 

 northwestern Arizona, May 9-10, and in the Lower Santa Clara Val- 

 ley, Utah, near St. George, May 11-15, where it was breeding com- 

 monly. 



Habia melanocephala. Black-headed Grosbeak. 



The black-headed grosbeak was first observed in Shepherd Canon in 

 the Argus Range, where a specimen was secured April 26. A week 



