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 172 THE CONDOR Vol. XV lipilo maculatus oregonu.s Bell. OR'co TowE. Type Locality.--Columbia River, at or near Fort Vancouver, Washington. Range.---Coast district of southern British Columbia, including the south- ern part of Vancouver Island, south through western Washington into Oregon. Specimens examined from California: One from San Clemente Island. Distinguishing Characters.--White markings reduced in extent more than in any other race of Pipilo mac,tlats. Chestnut areas of sides and crissum darker than in megalonyx or [alci[er. Hind claw short and weak. Remarks.--But one example of P.m. oregonus secured in California has been examined. This specimen (no. 2273, Mus. Vert. Zool.) is a female, taken on San Clemente Island December 4, 9o8; it was formerly in the collection of Mr. John E. Thayer, but was donated by him to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. This bird is to all appearances a typical example of oregonus, being indistinguishable from comparable specimens from Vancouver Island. Whether it is in' fact a veritable representative of this form, a strag- gler which had wandered an almost incredible distance from its normal habitat, or whether it is an individual variant of clementae, a "sport" which has assumed a superficial resemblance to another race, it is impossible to say; but the close- ness of its resemblance to the form oregonus leaves no choice but to call it by that name. The fact that oregonus is usually so limited in its migrations that it does not range southward even as far as northern California, makes doubly astonishi,ng this single occurrence at a far southern island locality. The capture of this bird was first recorded by Linton (9o9, p. 94). Pipilo maculatus clementae Grinnell. S^  C.EM;T; Tow;;. Type Locality.--Smuggler's Cove, San Clemente Island, California. Range.--San Clemente and Santa Catalina islands, California. Specimens examined from the following localities: San Clemente Island; Santa Catalina Island. Total number of specimens, 46. Distinguishing Characters.--General size Slightly greater than in m, egalonyx; bill and feet app[eciably larger. Coloration grayer than in megalonyx; black areas in the male duller and less intense; rump and lewer back more or less mixed with grayish. Remarks.--Apparently confined to San Clemente and Santa Catalina islands, where it is resident. I am unable to distinguish the slightest difference between birds from the two islands. Pipilo maculatus falcinellus, new subspecies. S^cR^iro Towx-I;. Type.--Adult male; no. 22832, Univ. Calif. Mus. Vert. Zool; Marysmile Buttes, alt. 5oo feet, 4 miles northwest of Sutter, Sutter County, California; April 8, 92; collected by W. P. Taylor; original number 5555 Distinuishing Characters.--Most nearly similar to Pipilo maculatus mea- Ionyx Baird, from which it differs in weaker foot, with noticeably short, weak, hind claw, in somewhat greater extent of white markings, and olivaceous or grayish rump. From Pipilo m. curtatus it differs in slightly longer hind claw, decidedly darker brown on sides and crissum, and in having the black areas more intensely and glossy black. Rane.--San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys, both slopes of the Sierra Nevada south to southern Tulare County and including the foothill region along the western edge of Owens Valley; north to the northern boundary of the state, between the coast ranges and the Warner Mountains, in Siskiyou, Trinity, and Shasta counties.