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San Bernardino. F. Stephens. Tolerably common 

 migrant in foothills. 



Ventura County. Evermann. Rare migrant; one 

 specimen March 11, 1881. 



Burrard Inlet, British Columbia. John Fannin. 

 April 15, 1885, 1 saw one mountain mockingbird, an un- 

 usual occurrence here. The bird lit on a limb about ten 

 feet from me and remained about a minute. 



Baird, Brewer and Ridgway. Nuttall met with it 

 nearly as far north as Walla Walla. 



Henshaw, 1879. It is nowhere more abundant than 

 on the sage covered hills and plains of western Nevada 

 just at the base of the mountains which shut off the west- 

 ward extension of the species. 



Camp Harney. Bendire. Common summer resident, 

 one of the earliest birds to arrive in spring. It nests 

 in various bushes, principally sage and serviceberry 

 bushes. I believe that two broods are raised in a season. 

 They leave here about the middle of September. 



Ridgway. It is distributed entirely across Nevada, 

 arrives at Carson from the south about March 20. The 

 males begin to sing about March 24. It leaves the lati- 

 tude of Carson in October or November. 



Sierra Valley, Sierra County, Cal. L. B. Common 

 in sagebrush, June 1885. This locality can hardly be 

 considered on the east slope, although it has its main 

 characteristics and several of its species. 



Hoffman. Of frequent occurrence throughout the 

 northern and middle sections of Nevada, usually in 

 greater numbers in the vicinity of streams. None were 

 seen south of Belmont though favorable localities were 

 found. 



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