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the 21st of February his life was ended by a fall from a scaffolding at Moore’s 
Shipyard in Oakland. 
It is not for me to make a public estimate of his character and achieve- 
ments. He was a good man, greatly beloved, just, sincere, loyal, serene. I am 
permitted to quote the following words from a letter written by a scientific 
friend and colleague: 
‘‘His death is a loss not only to you, and to us, his friends, but to science. 
There are not many men with his ability and courage to go into hard places and 
do things worth doing, not in bravado, but simply in the course of his work. 
That quality we had all admired greatly in him, and we all had hoped that with 
leisure and quiet he would produce some literary work that would make his 
fame.’’ I may add to this that fame, in the scientific or literary world, is some- 
thing to which he would never have dreamed of aspiring; but that he has left 
a reputation among the many good judges who knew him for something better 
than fame,— for manly courage and honor united with delicacy of speech and 
feeling. He inherits the blessing upon the pure in heart. 
Menlo Park, California, April 6, 1919. 
DESCRIPTION OF AN INTERESTING NEW JUNCO FROM 
LOWER CALIFORNIA 
By HARRY C. OBERHOLSER 
N the Biological Survey Collection in the United States National Museum 
there are four adult breeding specimens of a Junco that apparently is not 
referable to any described form. In view of this we think it should have a 
subspecific name of its own, although its range seems, like that of Junco ore- 
ganus townsendi, to be restricted to a single mountain range. This new race 
may therefore be known as: 
Junco oreganus pontilis, subsp. nov. 
Chars. Subsp.—Similar to Junco oreganus townsendi, but head and throat of a 
darker slate color, and back more rufescent. 
Description.—Type, adult male, no. 196964, U. S. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Coll.; 
El Rayo, Hanson Laguna Mountains, northern Lower California; June 4, 1905; E. W. Nel- 
son and EH. A. Goldman; original number, 11276. Pileum, sides of head and of neck, to- 
gether with cervix, rather brownish dark mouse gray; back between sayal brown and 
buffy brown; scapulars and lower back, hair brown; rump between neutral gray and 
mouse gray; upper tail-coverts deep mouse gray; tail fuscous, the two outer pairs of rec- 
trices white, the third pair with a long terminal white streak on the inner web next the 
shaft, also a little white on the basal outer web (only one side); wing-quills fuscous, nar- 
rowly edged externally with neutral gray; greater and median coverts, between chaetura 
drab and deep mouse gray, their outer edges hair brown; lesser coverts rather brownish 
neutral gray; chin and throat rather brownish dark mouse gray; breast, abdomen, and 
crissum, dull white; sides and flanks vinaceous buff; thighs fuscous; lining of wing 
pallid neutral gray, the centers of the feathers and the edge of the wing deep mouse gray. 
Measurements.—Male (four specimens, from the Hanson Laguna Mountains, north- 
ern Lower California): wing, 76-80.5 (average, 77.3 mm.); tail, 66.5-71.5 (68.3); exposed 
culmen, 10.2-11 (10.8); tarsus, 20-21 (20.5); middle toe without claw, 13.3-15 (13.9). 
Geographic Distribution.—Hanson Laguna Mountains, northern Lower California. 
