BIRDS OF THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 45 



Cooper, 1870. Besides constantly in California, fre- 

 quenting chiefly the plains. 



Alameda and Contra Costa counties. W. E. Bryant. 

 Tolerably common resident. 



Central California. L. B. Common resident of the 

 valleys and foothills; common about subalpine meadows 

 in the Sierra in summer. 



Heermann. Abundant throughout the whole of Cali- 

 fornia. 



Newberry. In the Sacramento Valley, in the interior 

 basin, and in the mountains and valleys of Oregon, we 

 found it everywhere quite as abundant as in the eastern 

 states. 



Willamette Valley. 0. B. Johnson. Very common; 

 nesting in holes, usually of a woodpecker. 



Cooper, 1860. Extremely common during summer 

 about prairies, even at the summit of the Cascade Range, 

 but I have never observed it in the forests or near the 

 sea shore. I noticed their arrival at Puget Sound early 

 in May. 



Suckley, 1860. Exceedingly abundant on the Nis- 

 qually Plains, Puget Sound. 



British Columbia. John Faimin. Abundant sum- 

 mer resident, arriving at Burrard Inlet, April 13, 1855. 

 The species was again seen April 17, and by May 15 it 

 was common. It is common here in breeding season. 



Henshaw, 1879. Very common throughout this whole 

 region. 



Bendire. A very common summer resident, breeding 

 abundantly about Camp Harney. 



Ridgway. Regarding the western range of this widely 

 distributed species, nothing more need be said than that 

 it occurs everywhere in suitable places. 



Hoffman. Generally abundant in the more favorable 

 localities of upper Nevada. 



