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Campo, May 14; showery; a small number. 



San Diego, April 16, 1885, first seen, three; April 29, 

 a flock; also about twenty-five in. Santa Margarita canon, 

 sixty miles north of San Diego, April 26, 1885. A single 

 bird seen 125 miles southeast of San Diego May 16, 

 1885. L. B. 



San Bernardino. F. Stephens. Rare transient visi- 

 tant to the valley. 



Baird, Brewer and Ridgway (vol. iii, p. 521). Dr. 

 Cooper states that in the spring of 1873, this swift ap- 

 peared as early as April 22 near San Buenaventura. 

 The year before he first saw them near San Diego on the 

 26th. 



Nicasio. C. A. Allen. May 12, 1884, first seen and 

 shot. 



Sebastopol. F. H. Holmes. An irregularly common 

 summer resident. April 19, 1885, first seen; next seen 

 April 29. 



Beaverton. A.W. Anthony. 1884, seen several times 

 this season. April 30, 1885, six seen; next seen May 8; 

 common May 8; breeds. 



British Columbia. John Fannin. Summer resident; 

 not common. 



Ridgway. At the Truckee Reservation, near Pyramid 

 Lake, in May and June, 1868, we saw nearly every even- 

 ing, but never until after sundown, quite a number of 

 small swifts which must have been this species, but 

 they always flew at so great a height that we found it 

 impossible to obtain a specimen. 



Murphys. John J. Snyder. September 4, 1885, a 

 specimen. 



89. Micropus melanoleucus ( Baird). WHITE-THROATED 



SWIFT. 

 Cooper, 1870. About twelve miles north of San Diego, 



