2 PACIFIC COAST AVIFAUNA [No. 2. 



bracing eighty species and subspecies. No attempt has been made to re- 

 cord otiier than land birds." 



It has been suggested that, for publication, these two lists be combined 

 and this is the part which I have undertaken. In most cases I have quot- 

 ed in full from the above lists, crediting the author in each instance with 

 his respective notes. 



In March, 189S, Mr. T. J. Hoover and I spent two weeks just north of 

 Santa Cruz and in July of the same year Mr. Hoover collected near the 

 same locality. Notes made on these trips are here incorporated. 



The original plan was to use only these manuscript notes but I think 

 it desirable to include such published notes as are at hand and I trust the 

 result is a fairly complete list of the land birds of Santa Cruz County. The 

 pre.-ent list is of local interest only, l)Ut it is l.oped that it may be cf as- 

 sistance to those engaged in faunal work and form a foundation for a 

 future and more complete exposition of the vSanta »^ruz avifauna. 



Of the published lists, one by Skirm,' enumerating eighty-four land 

 and thirteen water birds and one by McGregor and Fiske,Miave been 

 used extensively in the present paper. Belding's Land Birds^^ has supplied 

 notes on numerous species of the region and a paper by J. (i. Ccoper-^ has 

 furnished dates of migration and of nesting. 



Any notes in the text of the present paper which are credited to Mc- 

 Gregor and Fiske or to either of them are from their published list. While 

 the identifications of the species in that list are reliable, we wish to disclaim 

 all responsibility for the numerous typographical errors, as it was printed 

 without any proof reaching our hands. 



Our list included notes made by me at vSanta Cruz during the summer 

 and fall of 1888 and the summers of 1889 and 1S91, as well as notes c( 1- 

 lected by Fiske during a continued residence in the county of five years. 



The scientific nomenclature of the present ]raper is that rcconunended 

 by the American Ornithologists' Union with such additional nrmes as have 

 been published since the date of the last supplement to the A. O. U. check- 

 list. The trivial names are in most instances from the same checklist. 



I am greatly indebted to Mr. Joseph Grinnell for a.'sistance on tlie sci- 

 entific names of this list, and to Mr. Walter K. Fisher for the following 

 description of the Santa Cruz region. 



1 List of Birds of Santa Cruz Co., Cal. by Joseph Skirm, Ornilhologist and Oo/ogisi. IX; iS8^. pp. 149, 150. 



2 Annotated I^ist of the I,and and Water Birds of Santa Cruz County. Cahiornia by R. C. McGregor and 



E. H. Fiske. Originally published in the History of Santa Cruz County and reprinted in the Natural 

 History of Santa Cruz County Pacific Press Publishing Company, Oakland, Cal. (Nodate, about 1892.,) 



3 Land Birds of the Pacific District by I.yman Belding. Occas. Papers Cal. Acad. Sci. II; 1830. 



4 On the Migrations and Nesting Habits of West Coast Birds by J. G. Cooper, M. D. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



Jan. 20, 1S80, pp. 241-251. 



