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Violet-green swallows were numerous at three locali- 

 ties between Murphys and Big Trees, September 26. 



At Berkeley, Petrochelidon lunifrons was last seen by 

 Mr. Palme? on August 5, 1885. Piranga ludoviciana , 

 September 11; Habia melanocephala , August 26; Tyran- 

 tins verticalis, three days later; Contopus rickardsonii 

 September 12. Turdus ustulatus one day later. 



I was at Weber Lake in Henness Pass, altitude about 

 7,000 feet, from July 30, 1889, to August 7, and noticed 

 the following, which I thought were already on their 

 way to the Pacific Coast. The pelicans and gulls were 

 seen to cross the mountain, going in a southwesterly 

 direction. July 31, a large flock of juvenile Larus 

 californicus was seen. August 3, a large flock of juvenile 

 Recurvirostra americana; a flock of juvenile Phalaropus 

 lobatus; a flock of old and young or juvenile Spatula 

 clypeata, and from fifty to one hundred Pelecanus 

 erythrorhynchus in a single flock. On the fifth, a flock 

 of about a dozen Himantopus mexicanus, and about the 

 same number of Sterna forsteri appeared. The young 

 of Gattinago delicata, which bred there, besides the 

 young of numerous species, were capable of migrating, 

 by the first of August. 



According to Ridg way's Manual Phasianus torquatutt, 

 P. versicolor and P. scemmerringii have been introduced 

 into Oregon from China and Japan and are said to be 

 doing well, and Mr. Anthony informs me that a con- 

 siderable number of European species have quite re- 

 cently been introduced about Portland. 



Since the first part of 1886, when I considered this 

 catalogue of the land birds of the district quite com- 

 plete, several accidental occurrences have been reported, 

 some of which were probably wrongly identified. Mr. 

 Evermann's list of the birds of Ventura County con- 

 tains several errors of identification, some of which. 



