[450] BIRDS OF OREGON 



in abundance in recent years; otherwise, it is hard to account for the fact 

 that Lewis and Clark missed this brilliant songster, as did all the succeed- 

 ing ornithologists who visited the coast. There is a manuscript note in 

 the Survey files from B. J. Bretherton stating that he saw a few on Feb- 

 ruary 13, 1897. A skin taken by Dr. A. K. Fisher at Astoria, July 17, 

 1897, and one taken by Bretherton at Newport, March 14, 1899, are the 

 earliest ones in the Biological Survey collection, the latter being the type 

 specimen selected by Osgood (1899) when he described this race in 1899. 

 Woodcock (1902.) included a note of Bretherton's on its abundance in the 

 vicinity of Newport and stated further: "Warner and Cooke's collection 

 contained a specimen taken at Newport on Yaquina Bay, May 2.8, 1888." 

 Jewett (1916)3) reported it as common at Netarts Bay, Bailey (1917) 

 listed it from Tillamook Bay, and Shelton (1917) considered it an abund- 

 ant resident of western Lane County. 



In addition to these few published records, there are numerous speci- 

 mens and notes in the Biological Survey by Bailey, Streator, Dearborn, 

 Fisher, Peck, and Shaw from various points along the coast, most of 

 them being from Newport and Yaquina Bay, although Coos Bay, Astoria, 

 Empire, Norway, and Anchor are included as locality records. Our own 

 collections contain numerous specimens and notes well distributed along 

 the entire coast line of the State. The only actual nesting record we know 

 of is a set of four eggs taken by Braly at Depoe Bay, June n, 1932.. 



Pallid Wren-tit: 



Chamaea fasciata henshawi Ridgway 



DESCRIPTION. "Upper parts gray, tinged with olive or brown on posterior part; 

 tail long, graduated; under parts fawn, buffy brown, or pinkish brown, more or less 

 obscurely streaked with dusky. Wing: 2-37, tail 3.41, bill .41." (Bailey) Nest and 

 eggs: Same as for Coast Wren-tit. 



DISTRIBUTION. General: Upper Austral Zone from Rogue River Valley south 

 through interior valleys of California and along coast from Santa Barbara County 

 to Mexican Boundary. In Oregon: Regular but not common resident of Rogue River 

 Valley in Josephine and Jackson Counties that has straggled once to Klamath County. 



ON NOVEMBER 7, 1912., Jewett collected a pair of Wren-tits at Klamath 

 Falls that belong to this race. No other individuals have ever been 

 detected in this county although they are found regularly in the Rogue 

 River Valley. Murie collected a specimen on Louse Creek near Grants 

 Pass on June 10, 1916, which we understand is now in the Carnegie 

 Museum, and Jewett took one at Grants Pass, December 10, 1918. Since 

 that time we have noted the birds in the chaparral thickets near Grants 

 Pass on numerous occasions, and Jewett noted them in Jackson County, 

 March zx to April 6, 1916, during a stay at Gold Hill, and November 13, 

 1917, at Medford. This is a considerable extension of the range north- 



