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Mount Pinos); also in the Sierra Madre of Mexico from northwest 

 Chihuahua (Colonia Garcia) to northwestern Zacatecas (Sierra 

 Madre). West to southern California (Mount Pinos), the Sierra and 

 Cascade ranges in California (King's Canyon, Yosemite, Fyffe, Butte 

 Lake, and Salmon Mountains); Oregon (Pinehurst and Prospect); 

 Washington (Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier, Tacoma, and Seattle) ; 

 western British Columbia (Mount Benson, Vancouver Island; Glenora, 

 Telegraph Creek, and Atlin) ; southwestern Yukon (Carcross and 

 Burward Landing); and eastern Alaska (Chitina Moraine, Joseph 

 Village, aud the Yukon River above Circle). 



Winter range. — In southern British Columbia and in most of the 

 United States range of the solitaire the migration seems to be prin- 

 cipally altitudinal. The species winters north to southern British 

 Columbia (Victoria, Sumas, the Okanagan Valley, and Arrow Lakes) ; 

 northern Idaho (St. Joe National Forest near St. Maries) ; and central 

 eastern Montana (Terry). East to eastern Montana (Terry and 

 Kirby); eastern Wyoming (Platte Canyon and Laramie); eastern 

 Colorado (Fort Morgan and Manitou); rare or accidental east to 

 southeastern South Dakota (Vermillion); eastern Nebraska (Omaha 

 and Lincoln) , and Kansas (Topeka) ; western Texas (Palo Duro Can- 

 yon near Amarillo, Guadalupe Mountains, and Chisos Mountains; 

 rarely to Kerrville); and southwestern Chihuahua (Maquerichic). 

 South to southern Chihuahua (probably to the limit of the breeding 

 range in Zacatecas); northern Sonora (15 miles south of Nogales); 

 and northern Lower California (Sierra San Pedro Mdrtir, and Guada- 

 lupe Island, one record). West to northwestern Lower California 

 (Tecate), central California and occasionally the coastal region 

 (Indio, Claremont, Santa Barbara, the valleys of the Sierra Nevada, 

 Berkeley, Davis, and Paynes Creek); Oregon (Klamath Basin); western 

 Washington (Tacoma, Seattle, and Bellingham) ; and southwestern 

 British Columbia (Victoria). 



Migration. — Some late dates of spring departure are: Texas — Kerr- 

 ville, April 17. Kansas — Hays, April 6. Nebraska — Hastings, May 

 26. Utah— Ogden, April 30. 



Some early dates of spring arrival are: Colorado — Durango, March 

 25. Wyoming — Yellowstone Park, April 11. Montana — Big Sandy, 

 March 31. Saskatchewan — Eastend, April 19. Alberta — Banff, April 

 20. Idaho- — Rathdrum, March 4. Oregon— Corvallis, March 4. 

 British Columbia— Chilli wack, March 29; Atlin, April 30. 



Some late dates of fall departure are: British Columbia — Atlin 

 Lake, September 9; Okanagan Lake, November 22. Washington — 

 Pullman, October 22. Oregon — Weston, October 28. Alberta — 

 Banff, October 20. Montana — Missoula, November 25. Wyo- 

 ming — Wheatland, October 30. Colorado — Yuma, November 5. 



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