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much like D. estiva. I no doubt mistook them for that species at Puget 
Sound in 1854, reaching there by Apr. 10th, as mentioned in Zodél. of Wash. 
,Terr., p. 182. I now find that they are a month earlier than that bird in Cali- 
fornia. . 
In May, 1875, I found a nest of this species built about four feet from 
the ground in a thicket of nettles at Haywood, Alameda Co. It was neatly 
formed of vegetable fibres and grass-leaves, 344 inches wide, 24% high, the in- 
side 214 wide and 1144 deep. The three eggs measure 0.68 by 0.52 in., a little 
larger than those described by Dr. Brewer, and are white, with a scattered 
ring of brown specks near the large end. As this bird breeds so far north, 
and to the summits of the highest mountains where wooded, its frequency in 
so warm a locality in summer is surprising ; but in 1873 I saw them feeding 
young at Saticoy, lat. 35°, which is, however, less inland and about as cool. 
The prevalence of the sea-breeze in summer makes the climate of the coast 
border within fifteen miles very much like that of the mountain summits at 
that season. 
VIREOSYLVIA GILVA—Warbling Vireo—p. 116, (var. Swainsoni Baird). This 
bird seems to arrive much earlier than noticed in former years, as I found 
them at Haywood, Alameda County, near lat. 38°, by March 31st, 1875, 
while the date noticed ‘in 1862 at San Diego, was April 10th, andeat Santa 
Cruz, May 9th. Like several other birds, those that go inland appear to 
come earlier than those traveling along the coast; or, ‘from being more com- 
mon, their first arrival is more easily observed. 
AMPELIS GARRULUS—Arctic Wax Wing—p. 127. The locality of my speci- 
men, although doubted by some recent authors, may be verified by inspection 
of the original in the University of California, where it has been for a long 
time comparable with native specimens of A. cedrorum. 
PinIcoLa CANADENSIS—Pine Grosbeak-—p. 151. A specimen which I shot 
in August, 1870, near the summit of the Pacific R. R. Pass, over the Sierra 
Nevada, was of a fine orange-red color, but beginning to moult. This plum- 
age, which is not described by Baird, is stated by Nuttall to be the most adult 
condition of the species, the carmine-red characterizing younger birds. It 
may, however, be a tading change, like the yellow seen in caged birds of some 
other red species. 
CHRYSOMITRIS TRISTIS—American Goldfinch—p. 167. The size of the eggs 
given by me is so much smaller than of Eastern specimens, that Dr. Brewer 
seems to think it wrong. I have, however, found them at Haywood even 
smaller, measuring only 0.60 by 0.50 inch, while I did not find either of the 
other species at Santa Cruz. Mr. W. A. Cooper thinks, however, that 
C. Lawrenciti may breed there. At Saticoy I found eggs by April 25th, and 
at Haywood saw fledged young fed by the male on June 15th, so that they 
are not always so late in building on this coast as on the eastern. The eggs 
vary, as elsewhere, from white to pale bluish. This and the two next are 
called here, ‘‘ Wild Canaries.”’ 
