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 86 THE CONDOR Vol. I I nizing such geographic variations. If the fi)rms from contiguous faunal areas are distinguishable to an appreciable extent, even if the differences are slight, as in the present case, I deem it advisable to indicate them by different names. It would surely be awkvard to designate the San Francisco Bay Wren-tits as phwa )<./bsciata or 'fas- clara inclining to phcea/" ('hamrea Jascia'la he, shaa,i, described from Walker Basin, California, is of the extreme pale southern form, and so be- comes a pure synonym of.fasciata, as pointed out by Mr. Osgood, and cannot be used for this darker fi)rm. There- [ore I feel warranted in proposing for the W'ren-tits of the San Francisco Bay region, the subspecific name intermedia. Tvv. of .Uhamrea fizvciala intermedia,  ad, No. 42 Coil. J. G.; Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California; May 28, 9oo; Collected by J. Grinnell. DESCRIPTION--Back and upper tail-coverts, sepia, 'shading into hair brown on nape and top of head. Ij)res and small spots on upper and lower eye-lids, pale gray. Throat and breast, cimmmon-ruf0us, fading posteriorly into pale vinaceons-cinnanmn on middle of belly. Feathers on breast, with faint tinsky shaft- streaks. Sides, flanks and lower tail-coverts, brownish olive. Under wing-coverts and axillars, pale vinaceous-cinnamon. Wings and tail, clove-brown, the feathers with slightly paler edgings. MEASUREMENTS OF Tvv:--Length, 6.50 065 ram): wing, 2.37 (60 ram); tail, 3.40 (87 nlra); cnlmen, .45 (L5 ram).; tarsus, Lo4 (26.5 A List of nrecorded Albinos ! RICIIARD C. H ERE have been brought together in this list notes on birds either albino or with some w hire feathers in areas where they do not normally occur. Nearly all the notes have been furnished me by letter and the author- ity for each follows the description. For descriptions of such specimens as I have examined I am responsible. Twenty-three species are recorded, all from California, except the ,4,ffclaius from Ph(enix, the asserella from Nut- chuk, and the Ammodramus, the local- ity of the. last being forgotten. Thanks are due Messrs. I). A. Cohen, W. O. Emerson, H. B. Kaeding, C. Lit- lejohn, T. E. Slevin, F. Stephens and H. S. Swarth, all of whom most courte- ously gave me the use of their notes and specimens. - Oucrqucdu/a c.3,anoptcra. -- Tulare. Many o the Cinnamon Teal in San- Francisco market [ have sen, said to come from Tulare, etc., were very light, going so light as to be whitish buff and dirty wliiel ..In one consignment of say 5o birds noed about ten years ago over o,e half of them would have been worth preserving for peculiar plunmge. -:--{ O H F.N, MCi;R bX;oR Ra/l.s obsoh:lus.--Redwood City, Cal- ifornia, Dec. 2, 892. Coil. C. I.ittlejohn. The following parts are white: A few feathers on auricnlars and many on nape and top (ff head; secondaries aml outer web of third, fourth and fifth pri- maries of left wing; one secondary, outer web of second, fourth and fifth primaries and inner web of two primaries. Alameda marsh, fall of 896, a hunter had a California Clapper Rail with white in patches rather uniformly dis- tributed over the entire body so as to give it a gray appearance. Old hunters mention having seen several cases about the same.--COHEX. Lophort?t' cal(/br,h',s.--San Carlos, Nov. o, x896, c. Coll. C. l,ittlejohn. The pattern is nornml, crest and throat patch black; chestnut spot of breast pale; the remainder of plumage is buffy cream as near as I can describe it. I have mounted a fenrole quail, prob- ably L. c. va/licola, secured from San Francisco nmrket about ten years ago; of a uniform light buff color, 'the usual white-lined feathers of the under parts being buffy-white and in contrast With the darker color just described.-CmE. Lophort3,.t' cal/brnitws va//ico[a.--San