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3. At Kenworthy (4500 feel I a nest was found in course of con- 

 struction on June !). Other nests were found, one building at 

 Garnet Queen Mine. June 26, and one with three eggs at Fuller's 

 Mill, June 22. At various collecting stations in higher parts of 

 the range, Santa Rosa .Mountain. Strawberry Valley, Tahquitz 

 Valley, and Round Valley, the birds were everywhere numerous, 

 usually along the water courses. At Hemet Lake and on Thomas 

 Mountain, in August, they were also abundant. 



Twenty-three specimens were collected: Snow Creek, three 

 (nos. 2143-2145). Cabezon, three (nos. L682, 1683, 1685), Hur- 

 ley Flat, one (no. 1684), Schain's Ranch, five (nos. 1913 1917), 

 Fullers Mill, one (no. 2001), Strawberry Valley, two nos. 2583, 

 2584), Tahquitz Valley, one (no. 2803), Round Valley, two (nos. 

 2110. 2215). Thomas Mountain, one (no. 3036), Vandeventer 

 Flat, one mo. 2303), Gamel Queen Mine, two (nos. 2474. 2475.. 

 and Dos Palmos, one I no. 2506 . 



Empidonax difficilis difficilis Baird 

 Western Flycatcher 



Found breeding in small numbers ;it a few points in high 

 Upper Sonoran and in Transition, usually being seen or heard in 

 the dense vegetation along the streams. Migrating birds were 

 taken at Cabezon early in May. and at Dos Palmos the end of 

 May. A few belated migrants were noted at the desert base of 

 the mountains the middle of June, one taken at Palm Canon 

 (3000 feet), June 13, one taken at the month of Palm ('anon, 

 June 15, and one heard at Banning, June 10. 



At Garnet Queen Mine a few were seen, and on June 2(i a 

 nest was found containing three small young, the nest being 

 placed in the end of a broken-off log, about eight feet above the 

 bed of the stream. 



In Strawberry Valley, in July, a few of the birds were seen 

 or heard daily along the streams. Occasional birds beginning to 

 appear in Tahquitz Valley at the end of July were probably 

 wanderers from lower points. On Thomas Mountain, August 

 16-21. they wcvr noticeably abundant. 



Twenty-one specimens were collected, eighteen skins, as follows : 

 Cabezon, three (nos. 1697-1699), Snow Creek, one (no. 2139), 



