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Julian, San Diego County, first appearing at Campo 

 about March 24, 1876. 



L. B. Campo, 1884. A pair were seen here which I 

 thought had a nest in shrubbery or small trees, but I did 

 not find it. Mr. Stephens' Campo specimens were the 

 first that were collected in. California.- Its song resem- 

 bles that of Cassin's vireo but is weaker and inferior. 

 When I first heard it at Guaymas I thought it Cassin's 

 vireo. 



228. Mniotilta varia (Linn.) BLACK AND WHITE WAR- 



BLER. 



A male was found on south Farallon Island by Mr. 

 Emerson. Proc. Cal. Acad., ser. 2, i, 48. 



229. Helminthophila lucise (Cooper). LUCY'S WAR- 

 BLER. 



Cooper, 1870. This beautiful little warbler arrived 

 from the south in the vicinity of FortMojave, on March 

 25, when my attention was first struck by its peculiar 

 notes, resembling those of some Dendroicas, but fainter. 



230. Helminthophilavirginiae(Baird). VIRGINIA'S WAR- 



BLER. 



Ridgway. First observed among the cedar and pinon 

 groves on the eastern slope of the Ruby Mountains. It 

 was not met with west of this locality, but eastward it 

 occurred on all those ranges having a similar or equally 

 extensive growth. In the Ruby Mountains it was rather 

 common in July and August. 



231. Helminthophila ruficapilla gutturalis Ridgw. .CAL- 

 AVERAS WARBLER. 



A specimen was collected at Fort Tejon by Xantus. 

 At Murphys, from April 11, 1877, to about May 1, it 

 was tolerably common, and it is not rare in the Sierra of 



