BIRDS OF THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 77 



in the present report, being scarcely less numerous 

 towards the north. 



Camp Harney. Bendire. Rare summer visitor. 



Ridgway. An inhabitant of open places exclusively, 

 the sage brush country being, so far as we observed, its 

 only habitat. It was often observed or heard in the 

 lower valleys, as well as in the mountain parks below an 

 altitude of 8,000 feet (Truckee, East Humboldt Mount- 

 ains, Uintahs.) 



Hoffman. 1 met with the bird several times; the first 

 locality being in the valley west of Hot Spring Canon, 

 on the road to Belmont. They appeared rather fre- 

 quently in the vicinity of Green Mountain and north of 

 Mount Magruder. 



85. Chordeiles virginianus henryi (Cass.) WESTERN 

 NIGHTHAWK. 



Poway. F. E. Blaisdell. Summer resident; March 

 21, 1884, first. 



Poway. W. 0. Emerson. April 23, 1884, first. 



[Probably a part, if not all of the above, were C, 

 texensis] . 



Henshaw, 1876. Appears to be wanting in much of 

 southern California; we did not meet with the species 

 at all. 



Cooper, 1870. This species shuns the coast borders 

 of the State. In Santa Clara Valley and the Coast 

 Ranges I have seen none. 



L. B. A very common summer resident in the 

 granite rocks at about 7,000 feet altitude in the Sierra, 

 as far south as Tuolumne and Alpine counties. It was 

 common at Butte Creek House, altitude 5,800 feet, July 

 1-3, 1884 about as low as I have found the species 

 breeding. It was last seen at Summit, September 1, 

 1885; Lake Tahoe, September 11, 1889. It probably 



