86 EvERMANN on Birds of Ventura County, California. (January 



egg already spoken of, being dead white in color, without any 

 spots or markings, and measuring .65 x .51, and .67 X .53 

 inches. 



I think it unlikely that a second or later brood was raised by 

 this species, as by the third week in June I have found several 

 broods of young associated together, escorted each by the parent 

 birds ; in this way, forming very large flocks, they roam about 

 througrh the oak groves. 



A LIST OF THE BIRDS OBSERVED IN VENTURA 

 COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. 



BY BARTON W. EVERMANN. 



The following paper is based upon observations made during 

 the residence of the writer at Santa Paula, from August, 1S79, to 

 July, iSSi. 



Ventura County lies on the coast between the counties of Santa 

 Barbara and Los Angeles. The general direction of the coast 

 line of this county is northwest and southeast. The Santa Bar- 

 bara Islands lie to the southwest, Santa Cruza and Ana Capa 

 being in plain view from San Buenaventura, which is the county 

 seat and chief town of the county. 



The surface of the comity is, chieflv, very mountainous, con- 

 sisting of many spurs or short ranges of the Coast Mountains. 

 Near San Buenaventura, two small rivers empty into the ocean. 

 These are the San Buenaventura and the Santa Clara. The first 

 comes down from the north through a narrow valley with which 

 the caiion called Canada de Largo is joined five or six miles from 

 the coast. The Santa Clara River comes down from the east 

 through the Santa Clara Valley, which varies from less than a 

 mile to two or three miles in width until within eight miles of the 

 ocean when it suddenly widens into a low, level plain many miles 

 in extent. Near where the valley widens is the little village of 

 Saticov where Dr. J. G. Cooper, who has done so much to eluci- 

 date the natvu'al history of the West, once spent a short time col- 

 lecting. Eight miles further up the valley, or sixteen miles from 

 the coast, is the village of Santa Paula, in the vicinity of which 

 were made most of the observations recorded in this paper. 

 Alonof the river are small, isolated groves of cottonwoods and 



