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Stelgidopteryx serripennis I Audubon) 



Rough- winged Swallow 



A flock of about fifteen individuals, supposed to be of this 

 species, seen a1 Schain's Ranch od June 26. At Hemet Lake, 

 Augusl 5 to 15, migrating rough-winged swallows were noted 

 on several occasions. 



Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot 

 ( ledar Waxwing 



A Mock- of ;it leasl fifty seen in pepper trees bordering ;i 

 street in the town of Hemet on the morning of .May If). The 

 capture of a full-grown juvenal (no. 3001), at Hemet Lake, the 

 morning of Augusl 9, was an unexpected occurrence, difficult of 

 explanation. This bird appeared immediately after an excep- 

 t inn, -illy heavy storm, and was the only one of the species observed 

 anywhere in the mountains. The capture of this specimen is oot 

 in itself evidence of the breeding of the species in the region, 

 for though in the streaked juvenal plumage it was as -s t r< >i i lz on 

 the wing as any adult, and hence capable of travelling a long 

 distance. 



On the other hand, to assume thai it had traveled as far as 

 the distance from the aearesl known breeding station of the 

 species, northern Oregon, does not seem altogether warranted. 

 It appears more reasonable to believe that the cedar waxwing 

 will eventually be found to breed occasionally in parts of Cali- 

 fornia, though at present not known to do so. 



Phainopepla nitens (Swainson 



Phainopepla 



Encountered in numbers ai various points in San Gorgonio 

 Pass. At Cabezon, during May. they were seen daily, usually in 

 small (locks, and evidently migrating. Also observed at Snow 

 ('reek, the end <d' May, and at Banning, early in June. At the 

 latter point they were probably breeding. The few birds noted 

 at Dos Palmos Spring the last week in May. and at Pinon Plat, 

 June '_'. were probably transients, as none were seen at these 



