PREFACE 



Birds of the Pacific Coast is intended as a fieid 

 book, giving the distribution and habitat, and 

 illustrating one hundred and eighteen birds 

 which are more or less common to all of the 

 Pacific Coast states and British Columbia, 

 and only a few that are rare or of local occur- 

 rence. Many of the birds described in this 

 book may be found as far east as the Rocky 

 Mountains, and some as far as the Mississippi 

 Valley. 



The migratory habits of many of our 

 strictly western birds do not seem to be as 

 pronounced as among members of the same 

 families along the Atlantic seaboard. This 

 seems especially true of many of the warblers, 

 bluebirds, thrushes, vireos, robins, wrens and 

 purple finches. It would seem that our 

 milder winter climate has something to do 

 with this retarded movement of our birds 

 during their southward migration in the fall. 



The plates are colored to show the males 

 in full breeding plumage, and where the 

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