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to Oaxaca (Parada) ; Guerrero (Chalpancingo and Taxco) ; Michoac&n 

 (Nahuatzen) ; Durango (Chacala) ; Lower California (Victoria Moun- 

 tains, Cape Region, San Telma, and Las Cruces, and formerly resi- 

 dent on Guadalupe Island); the Pacific Coast of California (Santa 

 Catalina and Santa Cruz Islands, Santa Barbara, Watsonville, and 

 San Francisco); Oregon (Coos Bay); Washington (Cape Disappoint- 

 ment and Tacoma) ; and southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia 

 (Victoria and Comox). 



The ranges as outlined apply to the species as a whole, of which 

 four subspecies or geographic races are recognized. The eastern 

 ruby-crowned kinglet (R. c. calendula) breeds from northwestern 

 Mackenzie, Alberta, and central southern Montana eastward; the 

 western ruby-crowned kinglet (R. c. cinerasceus) breeds from north- 

 western Alaska, Yukon, and northeastern British Columbia, south 

 through the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico, Arizona, and southern 

 California, and west to the Cascade Mountains; the Sitka kinglet 

 (R. c. grinnelli) breeds in the coastal belt from Kenai, Alaska, to 

 Washington; the dusky kinglet (R. c. obscurus) was resident on 

 Guadalupe [sland, Lower California, but is probably now extinct. 



Migration. — Some late dates of spring departure are : Nuevo Le6n — 

 San Pedro Mines, May 8. Florida — Gainesville, April 29. Georgia — 

 Athens, May 10. South Carolina — Columbia, May 8. North Caro- 

 lina — Raleigh, May 10. District (of Columbia — Washington, May 

 17. Pennsylvania — Beaver, May 11. New York — Watertown, May 

 14. Massachusetts — Northampton, May 21. Mississippi — Rodney, 

 April 13. Louisiana — Lobdell, April 25. Arkansas — Helena, April 

 19. Kentucky — Bardstown, May 4. Ohio — Columbus, May 23. 

 Illinois — Lake Forest, May 12. Texas — Corpus Christi, May 10. 

 Oklahoma — Norman, May 6. South Dakota — Sioux Falls, May 21. 



Some early dates of spring arrival are: West Virginia — French 

 Creek, March 26. New York — Rochester, March 29. Massachu- 

 setts — Boston, April 8. Vermont — Bennington, March 31. Maine — 

 Auburn, April 5. Nova Scotia — Wolfville, April 21, New Bruns- 

 wick — Scotch Lake, April 18. Quebec — Kamouraska, April 22. 

 Newfoundland — St. John's, April 16. Ohio — Columbus, March 8. 

 Michigan — Grand Rapids, March 31. Ontario — London, April 8. 

 Missouri — Kansas City, March 24. Iowa — Keokuk, March 24. 

 Wisconsin — Milwaukee, March 18. Minnesota — Redwing, March 

 21. South Dakota — Brookings, April 5. North Dakota — Fargo, 

 April 5. Manitoba — Pilot Mound, April 11. Saskatchewan — Re- 

 gina, April 25. Colorado — Grand Junction, April 18. Wyoming — 

 Laramie, April 16. Montana — Fortine, March 30. Alberta — Banff, 

 April 16. Mackenzie — Willow River, near Providence, May 2. Utah — 



