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[It is not in Mr. Johnson's list of birds of Willamette 

 Valley; Drs. Cooper and Suckley did not see it in Wash- 

 ington Territory, and Mr. Henshaw did not find it on 

 the east slope where I believe it has never been col- 

 lected. It is resident in Central California below the 

 firs, occasionally wandering to a height of 5,000 feet in 

 the Sierra after breeding; tolerably common at ](<! 

 Bluff in winter and probably outnumbers all the other 

 woodpeckers in California. Specimens shot at Gridley, 

 February 23, had eaten, principally, acorns, which the 

 same individuals had probably stored, in their custom- 

 ary manner, in a dead oak near my residence.] 



78. Melanerpes torquatus (Wils.) LEWIS'S WOOD- 

 PECKER. 



Poway. F. E. Blaisdell. I saw but one here in 1883. 

 I observed the species at Temecula, November 14, 1883. 

 It was abundant in Volcan Mountains during Septem- 

 ber and October, 1884. 



San Bernardino Mountains. F. Stephens. Rare resi- 

 dent. 



[Mr. Henshaw did not find it in summer about Los 

 Angeles and Santa Barbara, as he says: " I did not see 

 the species until reaching Fort Tejon in August. It 

 was here and in other places, in the pineries, common 

 in certain localities."] 



Tehachapi. L. B. Very common in spring. 



Cooper, 1870. Quite common near New Almaden, 

 but not elsewhere in the Coast Range southward during 

 summer. 



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

 Rare resident. 



Sebastopol. F. H. Holmes. An abundant accidental 

 visitant. This species appeared September 16, 1884, in 

 great numbers, flying high from the north, coming in 



