BIRDS OF THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 95 



winter visitant to the valley. Rare summer resident, 

 breeding in the same. 



Santa Ana. F. E. Blaisdell. December 10-14, 1884, 

 frequently seen. 



Santa Cruz. Joseph Skirm. Quite common in fall 

 and winter. 



Contra Costa County. W. E. Bryant. Tolerably 

 common resident. 



Sebastopol. F. H. Holmes. Rather rare winter visit- 

 ant. September 17, 1884, first; February 24, 1855, 

 last. 



British Columbia. John Fannin. Rare summer 

 resident. 



Henshaw. Abundant along the eastern slope, build- 

 ing about barns and outbuildings. 



Camp Harney. Bendire. Rare and only found dur- 

 ing the migrations, usually about April 1. 



Ridgway. Eastward of the Sierra Nevada, found in 

 all suitable places, but not abundant anywhere. Its 

 favorite haunts were the rocky shores of the lakes and 

 rivers, or the walls of the lower canons in the mountains, 

 but wherever man has fixed his abode upon the dreary 

 waste this species was attracted to his vicinity. 



104. Sayornis nigricans (Swains.) BLACK PHOCBE. 



Campo, January and May, rare; San Diego, mode- 

 rately common resident; Murphys and Colfax, winter 

 as well as summer, remaining through snow storms; Red 

 Bluff, February 3-5, 1885, rare, a common but never 

 numerous species, breeding occasionally at Big Trees 

 in outbuildings; rarely found so high on the west slope. 

 A single bird was seen at Summit, August 26, 1885, 

 coining from the northeast where it had probably spent 

 the summer; altitude of Summit 7,000 feet. A nest at 

 Dunbar's, Calaveras County, altitude 3,700 feet was com- 



