228 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Godfrey Holterhoff, Jr. (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, January,. 

 1883.) Flowing Wells, about seventy-five miles north 

 of Fort Yuma, nest and eggs in a Palo Verde tree. 



Cooper, 1870. Rather common on the deserts along 

 the route between the Colorado Valley and the coast 

 slope of California. They were so very wild I could 

 obtain but two. 



256. Harporhynchus crissalis (Henry). CRISSAL. 

 THRASHER. 



Cooper, 1870. Rather common at Fort Mojave. 



257. Campy lorhynchus brunneicapillus (Lafr.) CACTUS 

 WREN. 



San Diego. L. B. Rather common resident; rarely 

 seen in winter. First heard January 19; began to be 

 very noisy February 8, in spring-like, sunny weather, 

 April 3, nest just finished; probably intergrades with 

 C. affinis of the Cape region. 



Poway. F. E. Blaisdell. Tolerably common resident. 

 Very common in Santa Ana Plains, Los Angeles County, 

 December 10 to 14. 



San Bernardino. Common resident in deserts and 

 desert-like parts of the valleys where it breeds. 



Agua Caliente. F. Stephens. Not common resident; 

 set of eggs taken March 28. 



Ventura County. Evermann. A common summer 

 resident where cacti are abundant. 



Kernville. Henshaw, 1876. One or two individuals 

 shot. 



Hoffman. Met with only in the sandy deserts about 

 30 miles northwest of Fort Mojave among the cactus and 

 Yucca. 



