BIRDS OF THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 247 



San Bernardino. F. Stephens. Tolerably common 

 summer resident in the high mountains and equally 

 common in the valley and foothills in winter. Agua 

 Caliente, March 25 and 28, several seen. Several seen 

 from March 18 to April 15, 1886. 



Oakland, and vicinity. W. E. Bryant. Common 

 winter visitant; begins to sing in March. 



Berkeley. T. S. Palmer. Last seen April 11; began 

 to sing March 7. Last seen on March 25, 1886. 



Sebastopol. F. H. Holmes. An abundant winter 

 visitant; last seen April 15; the bulk departed about 

 March 18. 



Beaverton. A. W. Anthony. First seen March 9, 

 two birds; again seen March 12; last seen April 15. It 

 was common during the migration. 



Burrard Inlet. John Faiinin. First seen March 14; 

 was common April 4. Common in breeding season. 



Henshaw, 1879. A common summer inhabitant of 

 the pineries. 



Camp Harney. Bendire. Undoubtedly breeds about 

 here. A number remain amongst the willows and alders 

 during the winter. 



Ridgway. A common winter resident in all the lower 

 valleys, while in early spring it became abundant to 

 such an extent as to exceed all other birds in numbers. 



L. B. Common and generally distributed in the tim- 

 bered parts of the valleys and foothills of Central Cali- 

 fornia in winter; common in breeding season in the 

 upper Sierra from latitude 38 northward, and when a 

 heavy snow-fall makes a backward spring, a few breed 

 as low as the Calaveras Big Trees. The first migrants 

 appeared at Gridley, October 1, 1884. 



