ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



In the preparation of this paper the author has been tlie recipient of much 

 valuable assistance. In fact, without this help the present report could not have 

 been successfully completed. Acknowledgments are due to Miss Wmifred 

 Wear, Mr. Frank M. Lane, Mr. Chas. E. Jenney, and other present-day workers 

 in this field ; to my friend and fellovv^ ornithologist, Mr. Joseph Sloanaker, for a 

 wealth of notes from the vicinity of Raisin City ; to Mr. A. D. Ferguson, Dis- 

 trict Deputy of the Fish and Game Commission, for permits to take specimens 

 of doubtful species ; to my wife who assisted greatly in the actual work of get- 

 ting a mass of notes into printable shape ; and especially to Mr. Joseph Grinnell 

 of the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology for patiently identifying speci- 

 mens and assisting in many other ways. To these and all others who assisted in 

 any way, the author takes this opportunity of expressing his sincere thanks. 



The nomenclature adopted in the following list is, except in a very few 

 cases, that of the Third Edition of the American Ornithologists" Union Check- 

 List of North American Birds (1910). 



