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conditions of humidity. As a rule, however, in arid regions it affects the shrub- 
bery around springs or streams. Southernmost breeding station, Cuyamaca 
Mountains. 
414 (600a) Passerina versicolor pulchra Ridgway 
BEAUTIFUL BUNTING 
Status—Casual visitant from the south. Occurred in numbers in Febru- 
ary, 1914, on the California side of the Colorado River at Blythe, Riverside 
County; two specimens taken February 8 and 9, now in Daggett collection at 
the Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles (Daggett, Condor, xvi, 
1914, p. 260). 
415 (605) Calamospiza melanocorys Stejneger 
Lark BUNTING 
Synonyms—Calamospiza bicolor; White-shouldered Blackbird; White- 
winged Blackbird. 
Status—Irregular late winter and spring-visitant to the southern portion 
of the state; sporadically common. Recorded as follows: Tulare Lake (J. G. 
Cooper, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, um, 1877, p. 92); Santa Barbara (J. Mailliard, 
Condor, vu, 1905, p. 143) ; Pilot Knob, Mohave Desert (A. K. Fisher, N. Amer. 
Fauna no. 7, 1893, p. 108) ; Colorado River, near The Needles (J. Grinnell, Univ. 
Calif. Publ. Zool., xm, 1914, p. 181) ; Newhall, Los Angeles County (J. Grinnell, 
Bds. Los Angeles Co., 1898, p. 41) ; San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County 
(Swarth, Condor, rv, 1902, p. 95) ; Riverside (Swarth, Condor, xm, 1910, p. 108) ; 
E] Cajon, Campo and Poway, San Diego County (Belding, Land Bds. Pace. Dist., 
1890, p. 180) ; San Diego (Holterhoff, Auk, 1, 1884, p. 293). 
416 (610a) Piranga rubra cooperi Ridgway 
Cooper TANAGER 
Synonym—Pyranga aestiva coopert. 
Status—Two individuals said to have been seen and one of them taken at 
Santa Barbara in the ‘‘spring”’ of 1885 (Streator, Orn. & Ool., x1, 1886, p. 52) ; 
a female example, which I have identified, taken October 11, 1907, on San Cle- 
mente Island (Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 85) ; oceurs with probable regularity 
in summer in the southeastern frontier of the state along the lower Colorado: 
helow Ehrenberg (F. Stephens, Condor, v, 1903, p. 104), at and above The 
Needles, “‘common’’ (Hollister, Auk, xxv, 1908, p. 461), and from eight miles 
east of Picacho down to vicinity of Pilot Knob (J. Grinnell, Uniy. Calif. Publ. 
Zool., x1, 1914, p. 182). 
417 (607) Piranga ludoviciana (Wilson) 
WESTERN TANAGER 
Synonyms—Pyranga ludoviciana; Louisiana Tanager 
Status—Common in summer along the entire Sierra Nevada, breeding chief- 
ly in the Transition zone ; occurs thus in the higher ranges of southern California 
