May I9OI.] LAND lUKDS OI- SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. 17 



flocks. Skirm. — Common summer resident, arriving March 2S, 1881, and 

 March 21, 1SS2.' Cooper. — Arrives March 19; leaves October 5.^ 



97. Stelgidopteryx serripennis {Ami.). Rough-winged vSwallow. 

 McGregor and Fiske. — Recorded by us as a rare summer resident 



found in company with the Bank vSwallow. Ingersoll. — Kggs taken at 

 Santa Cruz. 3 



98. Clivicola riparia {Linn.). Bank Swallow. 



In 1891 Fiske and I took eggs of this swallow near vSeabright. h!ggs 

 have also been collected by Ingersoll.'* Ivmerson noticed it along the high 

 banks of Soquel Creek. 



99. Ampelis cedrorum ( Mcill.). Cedar Waxwing. 



Emerson. — Has been seen around Santa Cruz. 1 believe that it may 

 breed in the mountains, as young have been taken in Sonoma county. It 

 is conunon about Haywards every spring, feeding on the pepper berries 

 and in time there is no (|ueslion l)Ut that it will nest near habitation as the 

 country becomes more settled. McGregor and F'iske. — The waxwing is 

 an irregular fall and winter visitant about vSanta Cruz. Skirm. — Large 

 flocks .sometimes come here, but stay only a short time. 5 



100. Lanius ludcvicianus gambeli A'/V/;'?.'. California Shrike. . 

 Ivmer.son. — Noticed only about farm places. Kaeding. — P'airly com- 

 mon, breeding. vSkirm. — Connnon.^ 



loi. Vireo gilvus r F/V/7/.). Warbling X'ireo. 



limerson. — One was seen September 1 2. 1884, at the sunmiit of the 

 mountains. Connnon along the ScMpiel and vSan Lorenzo streams. Kaed- 

 ing. — Quite common, breeding. vSkirm. — Connnon sununer resident. 7 



102. Vireo solitarius cassini {Xa?f/i(s). Cassin Vireo. 



Emerson. — One was seen vSeptember 12, 1884, at the sunnnit of the 

 mountains along the willows in the early morning. McGregor and I-'iske. 

 — Not uncommon in sunnner. 



103. Vireo huttoni r^/\.s. Hutton Vireo. 



Hoover collected specimens of these three vireos in early sununer. 

 Ingersoll tells me he took eggs of this species near Santa Cruz, l-'menson. 

 — I found this species (piite connnon wherever there was oak timber. 

 Kaeding. — Quite connnon, breeding. W. A. Cooper records a nest found 

 April 7, 1874, placed ten feet from the ground containing three eggs incu- 

 bated about five days. March 30, 1875, he took another nest eight feet 

 from the ground containing four eggs. Two more nests were respectively 

 twenty-five and thirty feet from the ground.* 



1. Belding, op. til., p. igl. 



2. Proc. Nat. Mus., 1880, p. 2.(6. 



3. Hclding, ofi. (it., p. 193. 



4. /bid, p. iy4. 



5. /bid, p. Ig6. 



6. /bid, p. iy8. 



7. /bid, p. 200. 



8. Bull. Nutt. Oruith. Club. Ill; 1878, p. 68. 



