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MEASUREMENTS OF ADULT EXAMPLES OF LAGOPUS LEUCURUS RAINIERENSIS, 
ALL, FROM MOUNT RAINIER, WASHINGTON 
Males 
a ee 
1 qs /o 2 
BS ee 
Number Collector Locality Date ? = S| a8e 
ont _ oO, 
Ble! 6 |A#8 
101 | J. W. Hungate] Indian Henrys, 5300 ft. July 11, 1919 1187 |100 |i6 \6.5 
269376 | W. P. Taylor | McClure Rock, 7300 ft. Sept. 26, 1919 |176 | 96 | 14.5/6 
853 | S. G. Jewett | Indian Henrys, 7000 ft. — July 10, 1919 |177 | 96 |15.516.2 
854 | S. G. Jewett Indian Henrys, 7500 ft. July 10, 1919 |186 |106 |16 |6.6 
Average 181.5 99.5) 15.5) 6.3 
Females 
269375 | W. P. Taylor | Pinnacle Pk., 6200 ft. July 19, 19195 Kez 6.3 
156505 | V. Bailey Indian Henrys, above timberline| Aug. 10, 1897 |172 
156498 | A. K. Fisher | near Nisqually Glacier Aug. 2, 1897 {178 
103 | J. W. Hungate| Pyramid Pk., 6000 ft. July 11/1919") ae 6.1 
Average |175.7| 86.7] 15.2] 6.2 
Washington, D. C., April 8, 1920. 
THE CALIFORNIAN RACE OF THE BREWER BLACKBIRD 
By J. GRINNELL 
(Contribution from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California) 
O SEE that the Brewer Blackbirds of west-central California are appreci- 
ably smaller than those of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain regions re- 
quires but a few moments examination of an appropriate series of speci- 
mens. Furthermore this difference has already been commented upon, at least 
once, nearly twenty years ago. Under Scolecophagus cyanocephalus (Wagler), 
Ridgway (Bds. N. and Mid. Amer., 1, 1902, p. 249, footnote) makes this state- 
ment: ‘‘California specimens average decidedly smaller than those from east of 
the Sierra Nevada, as the following measurements show’’ [giving a table based 
on two males and five females from California and five males and four females 
from the ‘‘Rocky Mountain pleateau’’]. 
In view of the ease of securing specimens of so common a bird, and in view 
of the continual activity in describing subspecies, it is curious that the California 
Brewer Blackbird should have been left so long without a subspecifie name. The 
race seems to me to possess quantity of difference to quite as great measure as 
many subspecies of birds which have already stood for years on our lists. None 
of the scientific names given by Ridgway (loc. cit.) in the synonymy of the 
