BIRDS OP THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 123 



Oakland and vicinity. W. E. Bryant. Rare winter 

 visitant. 



Sebastopol. F. H. Holmes. 



Newberry. Common in California, in the Klamath 

 Basin and Oregon. 



Central California. L. B. Abundant summer resident; 

 rare as far north as Stockton in mildest winters; quite 

 common in January, 1885. An immense colony was 

 breeding here May 10, 1879, in the tules. The nests were 

 attached to the tules of this and last year's growth; were, 

 composed wholly of -grass without mud, differing in 

 this respect from nests found in northern California by 

 Dr. Heermaiin. The greatest number of eggs or young 

 birds in any one of about 100 nests examined was 

 three. Several held but one egg or one bird; several 

 young were dead and the colony was not thriving. Many 

 of the parents were going back and forth in small 

 parties, bringing grasshoppers for their young from a 

 pasture about three miles distant. The nests averaged 

 about one to each square yard. 



137. Sturnella magna neglecta (Aud.) WESTERN 

 MEADOWLARK. 



British Columbia. John Fannin. Abundant resi- 

 dent. 



Cape Beale, B. C. Emanuel Cox. Always here. 



Cooper, 1860. Very abundant in all the prairies of 

 the Territory where it resides constantly, merely visit- 

 ing the warmer coast meadows in very cold weather but 

 not remaining there during summer. 



Yakima Valley. Samuel Hubbard, Jr. February 17, 

 1885, one; March 1, common; breeds. 



Beavertoii. A. W. Anthony. Tolerably common 

 February 2, more plentiful March 15, 1884. A great 

 many were frozen and drifted under in the snow storm 

 of December 14. 



