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Central America in winter, as far north as Alaska in sum- 

 mer. It appears to be very rare east of the Sierra Nevada 

 Mountains. It winters entirely south of California, al- 

 though niather Xantus nor myself found it in the Cape St. 

 Lucas region. Colonel Grayson found it abundant on Tres 

 Marias Islands, in January. Mr. E. W. Nelson (Keport 

 upon the Natural History Collections made in Alaska, 1877- 

 1881, p. 217) says: " At present it is known only from the 

 soutiieastern coast x3ortion of Alaska." Mr. John Fannin, 

 of Burrard's Inlet, British Columbia, says: " It is an abun- 

 dant summer resident." Dr. J. G. Cooper (Nat. Hist. Wash. 

 Ter., 1860, p. 256) says: " This is one of the most common 

 summer residents in the wooded parts of the Territory, ar- 

 riving in May, and remaining until the beginning of Septem- 

 ber." Dr. Suckley, in the same volume, says it was "Quite 

 abundant west of the Cascade Mountains." Prof. O. B. 

 Johnson (Am. Nat., July, 1880, p. 486) says it is " Very 

 common during the breeding season" in the Willamette 

 Valley, Oregon. The only record of its occurrence east of 

 the Sierra Nevada Mountains, as far as I can learn, is Mr. 

 Ridg way's record in his report on the Ornithology of the 

 Fortieth Parallel, p. 396, he having collected a specimen 

 in the Trnckee Meadows near the eastern base of the Sierra 

 Nevada. Probably few breed as far south as northern 

 Lower California, although the species was very common 

 between Campo and San Diego, May 16, 1884, and quite as 

 common south of Campo, in the mountains, to near Han- 

 sen's, as late as May 14 of the same year. I saw but few 

 between San Diego and San Pedro Mountain, near the Gulf 

 of California, in May, 1885. I first saw the species at San 

 Diego in the spring of 1885, on May 3, when I shot both 

 sexes in pepper trees, Schinus Molle, in the streets. 



The following are mostly from migration notes of 1884 

 and 1885: 



San Diego. April 25, 1862, April 20, 1875, arrived. 

 Dr. J. G. Cooper, Proc. Nat. Mus., 1879, p. 245. 



