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PU PLICATIONS REVIEWED 
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thestes atricapillus septentrionalis) , Pullman, 
Whitman County, and Prescott, Walla Walla 
County. 
University of California Publications in 
Zoology, vol. 5, pp. 307-309; publisht Feb. 21, 
1910: Two Heretofore Unnamed IVrens of the 
Genus Thryomanes. By Joseph Grinnell. 
Thryomanes beivicki marinensis. Nicasio 
Wren. Similar to T. b. spi turns (Vigors) of 
the Santa Cruz faunal area south and east of 
.San Francisco Bay, in size, but dorsal color- 
ation brighter brown, of a Vandyke tone, and 
flanks and light intervals in crissum strongly 
waslit with Vandyke brown. Similar to T. b. 
calophonus Oberholser of Western Washington 
and Oregon, but dorsal coloration brighter 
brown, of a less sooty tone, and size decidedly 
less. Wing 51.4; tail 50.8; culmen 14.1. 
Range. — The humid coast belt north of the 
Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay, in Marin 
and Sonoma Counties. 
Thryomanes bewicki catalinae. Catalina 
Island Wren. Closely similar in color and 
general size to T. b. charienturus Oberholser 
of the adjacent mainland, but averaging darker 
dorsally (more sepia and not so umber brown) 
with heavier bill and conspicuously and con- 
stantly larger feet (longer toes and heavier 
tarsus); differs from T. b. leucophrys (Anthony) 
of San Clemente Island, in decidedly darker, 
less ashy coloration, and in much more heavily 
barred under tail coverts; differs from T. b. 
nesophilus Oberholser, of Santa Cruz Island, in 
duller, less rufescent coloration, grayer flanks, 
longer bill and generally larger size. Wing 
54; tail 53.7; culmen 15.7; hind toe with claw 
14; middle toe with claw 16.2. Santa Catalina 
Island, permanent resident. 
Ibid., pp. 311-316; publisht Feb. 21, 1910. 
The Savannah Sparrow of the Great Basin. 
By Joseph Grinnell. lie restricts the name 
alaudinus to “the form summering throughout 
the vast interior of northwestern North 
America, from Bering Sea and Kotzebue Sound 
to the Mackenzie region”, and separates the 
race that breeds in the arid Great Basin region 
of the United States under the name Passercu- 
lus sandwichensis nevadensis. Nevada .Savan- 
nah Sparrow. Resembles Passerculus sand- 
wichensis alaudinus Bonaparte, but is much 
paler thruout in all plumages; white replacing 
buff, black streaks thus more conspicuously 
contrasted there being a minimum amount of 
hazel markings; size slightly less. From P. s. 
savanna (Wilson) the new form differs in col- 
oration in the same ways as above but in 
greater degree; the bill is proportionally much 
smaller, tho the wing length is nearly the 
same. Passerculus sandwichensis nevadensis 
differs from its presumably nearest relatives in 
its extremely pale coloration. This paleness 
is not due to a less amount of black-streaking, 
but to a replacement of buff and clay color by 
white or whitish and to a restriction, and dilu- 
tion to clay color, of the hazel areas on each 
feather. The appearance of white edges on the 
rectrices is a remarkable feature, showing an 
incipiency of the condition among certain ter- 
restrial birds where the outer rectrix on either 
side is chiefly white, as in Pooecetes. 
Ibid., 361-428, plates 32-34, 9 text figures; 
publisht March 5, 1910. Birds of the 1 90S 
Alexander Alaska Expedition With a Note 
on the Avifauna l Relationships of the Prince 
William Sound District. By Joseph Grinnell. 
Under the heading, “General Accounts; Distri- 
bution; Biological Notes; Variation”, 89 species 
and subspecies are noted, equally divided be- 
tween water birds and land birds. More or 
less extensive notes are given under each 
species, distribution being particularly noted. 
The six new subspecies described are all land 
birds. The most im ortant parts of the 
descriptions follow; 
Canachites canadensis atratus. Valdez 
Spruce Grouse. Resembles Canachites cana- 
densis osgoodi of the interior of Alaska (Yukon 
and Kowak valleys), but general tone of color- 
ation darker; white markings of less extent; 
black areas more extended; and grays less 
ashy, more olivaceous. (A detailed description 
of each type follows). The indications are 
that this form is generally distributed in the 
humid coast belt from the eastern side of the 
Kenai Peninsula southwestwardly at least as 
far as Hawkins Island, and probably beyond. 
Lagopus rupestris kel/oggae. Montague 
Rock Ptarmigan. Similar to Lagopus rupes- 
tris rupestris of the interior of Alaska (moun- 
tains near Eagle), in comparable stage of 
plumage, but coloration darker; black markings 
more extended; brownish shades deeper toned; 
white tippings reduced and suffused with 
ocliraceous; top of head nearly solid black. 
Ceryle alcyon caurina. Northwestern Belted 
Kingfisher. Similar to the Ceryle alcyon of 
eastern and southern North America, but size 
thruout greater, especially measurements of 
flight feathers. 
Dryobates pubescens glacialis. Valdez Downy 
Woodpecker. Resembles Dryobates pubescens 
nelsoni of northern and interior Alaska in a gen- 
eral way, but differs from it in slightly smaller 
size, in having a decided smoky wash over the 
lower surface, in having the exposed lower 
surface of “closed” tail completely black 
barred, in having the flanks and lower tail 
coverts distinctly mottled with black, and in 
having the white-spotting of wings less in 
extent; resembles D. p. gairdneri in size, but 
smokines of lower surface much less in intensi- 
ty and not invading the white areas of head, 
and white-spotting of wings much greater in 
extent; resembles D. p. medianus closely, 
