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duriug the same time. lu the pine forest I have seen it only in and near 

 cultivated fields. 



It seems to be a rather rare winter sojourner of the valleys and an 

 accidental summer \isitant to them. A small flock was observed in 

 Stockton May 16, 1878. 



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 Marysville 



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* 65. Chrysomitris lavrrencii, Cass. — Laivrence^s Goldfinch, 



This does not seem to be an abundant species in any part of this 

 region. It was first noticed at Murphy's March 21, 1877, from which 

 time until May 3 flocks of three or four were occasionally seen, but the 

 total number was not more than fifty. 



At Marysville, winter of 1877-78, only a dozen or less were seen. I 

 have not seen it above Murphy's, where it was generally found in the 

 chaparral, sometimes in low trees (pines or oaks), occasionally on the 

 ground. 



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 * Murphy's. . 



Jan. 9, 1878 

 Mar. 12, 1877 

 Mar. 12,1877 



* 66. Chrysomitris pinus, (Wils.). — Pine Goldfinch. 



A few of these birds were probably breeding at Big Trees in July and 

 August, 1S78, and I noticed it at Soda Springs August 28, 1877. 



At Murphy's, in December, 1877, I found a flock of a dozen or more 

 familiarly associated ynth a larger number of C. psaltriaj feeding on the 

 ground on a rocky hill. They were seen for six or seven consecutive 

 days, or as long as I remained at Murphy's, and appeared to associate in 

 perfect harmony. At Marys^"llle I found, a few weeks later, both species 

 again as familiarly associated. In this case there were but three C. 

 pinns, with about twice their number of G. psaltria, all sitting on a tele- 

 graph wire along the railroad track. They soon ahghted on the track 

 near me, four of them forming a group by themselves not covering more 

 than a square foot of ground. Two of this group were C. pinuSj which I 

 shot, leaving a single survivor of this species among those remaining. 



A few days after this, near the same si)ot, on February 23, I saw a 

 single specimen of C.pimis familiarly associated with a flock of C. tristis, 

 feeding among the short grass in a pasture about two hundred yards 

 from a willow thicket 5 i^erhaps this was the surviviug C. pinus above 

 mentioned. 



I am pretty certain they were breeding there, for many times I saw 

 single birds come to a spring, and depart in the direction from which 

 they came. 



