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 168 THE CONDOR Vol. XV In general terms'the ranges of the various subspecies of Pipilo maculatus in California may be said to be as follows: P.m. megalonyx in the San Diegan ana Southern Sierran districts; P.m. [alcifer in the Santa Cruz, San Francisco Bay, and Northern Humid Coast districts; P.m. [alcinelhts in the San Joaquin-Sacra-. mento and Sierra Nevadan districts; t'. m. curtatus in the Great Basin district; and P.m. clementae in a part of the Santa Barbara Island district. DITRIlUTION MAP . . :'7L.. Fig. 47. Map showing the distribution in California of the subspecies of Pipilo ma- culatus occurring within the state. No. 1, Pipilo maculatus megalonyx; no. 2, P.m. [alcife;': no. 3, P.m. falcinellus; no. 4, P. m curtatus; no. 5, P.m. clementae. While this 'map is believed to indicate the general outlines of the ranges with a fair degree of accuracy, .it is not to be relied upon for the finer details of distribution. Thus although lgrge portions of the San Joaquin Valley are not inhabited by the species, lack of specimens, together with the small scale of the map, render it impracticable to illustrate this point. The range of curtatus in northeastern California, as here shown, merely takes in the points from which specimens have been examined; and the boundary between curtatus and [alcinellus may eventually prove to lie much farther west.