Cooper on Birds oj Ventura County, California. 



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Brachyramphus marmoratus, 



Brachyramphus hypoleucus, 

 Fulmarus glacialis glupischa, 

 Fulmarus glacialoides, 



Puffinns creatopus, 

 PPuffinus stricklandi, 

 Oceanodroma melania, 

 POceanites oceanicus, 



found by myself and others, two species of which are a little 

 doubtful, though representing species observed. 



Following the same reasoning we may safely assume that all 

 the species found in Santa Barbara County occur also in Ventura, 

 as the former county lies entirely west of Ventura, and extends 

 north of it only a few miles, thus being within the same degrees 

 of latitude and bordering on the "•Santa Barbara channel" also, 

 which runs there east and west. We thus find the following to 

 be added from my own collections at Santa Barbara : 



Urinator lumme, 

 Pelecanus californicus, 

 TDidemia americana, 

 Oidemia perspicillata, 

 Branta nigricans, 



and from Mr. Henshaw's Report, 



Phalacrocorax pelagicus resplen- 



dens, 

 Merganser americanus, 

 Clangula hyemafis, 



Botaurus exilis, 

 Himantopus mexicanus, 

 Macrorhamphus scolopaceus, 

 Heteractitis incanus, 

 Arenaria interpres; 



Rallus obsoletus, 

 Porzana jamaicensis, 

 Ammodramus savannarum per- 

 pallidus ; 



all swimmers or waders except the last: total, 24 to be added 

 from the westward. 



Mr. Henshaw traversed Ventura County from west to east, 

 but his report does not specify the localities within its limits 

 where any species were collected additional to the list, and trav- 

 elling in the driest months he saw very few of interest between 

 the coast and the "Tejon Mountains," which lie partly within the 

 the northeast corner of the county. There a different group 

 of birds was met with, between 4000 and S500 feet, at Mount 

 Finos. 



As Fort Tejon is only about ten miles from the boundary of 

 the county, and in the mountain region, its birds must fairly rep- 

 resent the group inhabiting that region. I have therefore quoted 

 from the collection made there by John Xantus in 1S57-5S, pub- 

 lished in the 'Proceedings' of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

 Sciences by Professor Baird. He obtained in all 144 species, of 



