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slope; also noticed in small flocks in September. Red 

 Bluff, February 3. 



Siskiyou County, Cal. Baird, Brewer and Ridgway. 



153. Spinus lawrencei (Cass.) LAWRENCE'S GOLDFINCH. 



San Diego, common resident; March 22, making nest 

 in a small orange tree. Colonel N. S. Goss noticed it 

 nesting here twelve days earlier. L. B. 



Poway. F. E. Blaisdell. Common summer resident; 

 May 17, several nests in which the young were nearly 

 fledged. 



Volcan Mountains. W. 0. Emerson. January 25 

 and 31, a small flock; April 5, common at Live Oak 

 Springs. 



San Bernardino. F. Stephens. Tolerably common 

 summer resident of the valley and foothills. Agua 

 Caliente, March 25-28; April 6, 12, 14 and 15, 1886. 



Henshaw, 1876. Near Santa Barbara, the only place 

 where I met with this bird, it was a numerously repre- 

 sented species. 



Santa Cruz. Joseph Skirm. Common summer resi- 

 dent. 



Alameda and Contra Costa counties. W. E. Bryant. 

 Rare summer resident. 



Berkeley. T. S. Palmer. Usually rare summer resi- 

 dent. Common in 1885. 



Nicasio. C. A. Allen. May 10, 1884, first. 



Sebastopol. F. H. Holmes. Tolerably common sum- 

 mer resident. May 15, 1885, first seen; seen as late as 

 October 25. 



Marysville. L. B. January 9, 1878, rare, in freez- 

 ing weather. 



Chico. Wm. Proud. May 22, 1884, nest and young. 



Heermann. Very abundant throughout the northern 

 mining regions of California. 



