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straggling parties. They soon afterward settled down 

 in the valley and appeared to be at home. They were 

 abundant until about May 1 when they commenced to 

 leave, and by May 10 they were all gone. They were 

 continually storing up acorns in the dead oaks, after 

 the manner of the Calif ornian woodpecker, and were 

 not at all shy. 



Ukiah, Mendocino County. George E. Aull. Every 

 six or seven years we have an inundation of Lewis's 

 woodpeckers. Last autumn they fairly swarmed, and 

 though the most of them left at the beginning of winter, 

 yet there are still a few here (February 20, 1885). 



Central California. L. B. Very common in winter; 

 moderately common in certain localities in summer. I 

 have not found it breeding on the west slope above 3,000 

 feet, though a summer resident on the east slope at a 

 much greater elevation. Many of these no doubt cross 

 the Sierra and spend the winter in California; and per- 

 haps Mr. Henshaw's Fort Tejon birds were migrants. 

 At Summit, August 16, 1885, I noticed them crossing to 

 the southwest, and afterward on several occasions as 

 late as September 7th, all going in a southwesterly di- 

 rection. 



Newberry. I first saw it in Lassens Butte, in North- 

 ern California. Subsequently we noticed them in the 

 mountains all the way to the Columbia. 



0. B. Johnson, 1880. Common along the Columbia 

 in winter, a few remaining to breed. 



Cooper, 1860. Abundant in summer in all the inte- 

 rior districts, never approaching the cooler coast where 

 few of the trees grow which it pefers to inhabit. 



British Columbia. John Fannin. Rare summer resi- 

 dent east of the Cascades. 



Henshaw, 1879. Nowhere in its wide range more 

 abundant than at the base of the eastern slope, through 



