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PACIFIC COAST AVIFAUNA [No. 



McGregor and Fiske. — The winter wren is a resident about Santa Cruz 

 where we took an example. 



123. Cistothorus palustris paludicola i?«/r^. Tule Wren. 



A rare summer resident. Fiske collected five well incubated eggs on 

 July 8, 1 89 1. No false nests were observed. 



124. Certhia familiaris occidentalis i*?/fl'^z£'. California Creeper. 

 Hoover took a specimen near Santa Cruz in June and I shot at a 



creeper on Big Creek late in March. Kaeding records the creeper as not 

 common. Emerson. — Rarely seen at any time throughout the range. Two 

 specimens were taken Sept. 12, 1884, and others seen at the summit. An 

 old nest was found behind a slit of bark of a redwood tree, some five feet 

 from the ground, near the summit between Soquel and Wright's. The 

 nest was composed of shredded redwood bark, soft and silky, lined with 

 birds' feathers. Read}' has taken their eggs near Santa Cruz. 



125. Sitta carolinensis aculeata (Gi'^.i.). Slender billed Nuthatch. 

 F^merson. — Not common at any time. Noticed more in the oaks than 



in otlier trees. 



126. Sitta pygmaea T'/V. Pygmy Nuthatch. 



Emerson. — This species is not as common throughout the kcality vis" 

 ited as in the Monterey range, where it can be seen associating with the 

 warblers, titmice, and chickadees. Ingersoll. — 1 saw about a dozen here- 

 It is quite rare.^ 



127. Parus inornatus Gamh. Plain Titmouse. 



W. A. Cooper found a set of four eggs, incubated about five days, in a 

 hollow oak limb, five feet from the ground. This set was taken near Wat- 

 sonville April 4, 1877.* Emerson. — Seen in the vicinity of oaks, rain or 

 shine. 



128. Parus rufescens barlowi 6';7V/;/f//.3 Barlow Chickadee. 



The chickadee is an abundant resident near Santa Cruz where Fiske 

 took fresh eggs April 12. Kaeding found it abundant about Ben Lomond 

 where eggs collected May 6 were two-thirds incubated. 



129. Chamaea fasciata intermedia Grinnell.^ Intermediate Wren-Tit. 

 Hoover found the wren-tit fairly common at Santa Cruz in July, and 



Kaeding reports it as breeding abundantly on Ben Lomond in May. Em- 

 erson saw it but rarely and then only in the thick bramble and bush. 



130. Psaltriparus minimus californicus RidgiL'. California Bush-Tit. 

 Fiske and I found the bush-tit to be an abundant summer resident 



about Santa Cruz where I have taken it in March, 1898. Kaeding found 

 it very common on Ben Lomond. Emerson speaks of the species as com- 

 mon among the willow and wild lilac bushes, going in large flocks in the 

 fall. 



1. Belding, op. cit,, p. 239. 



2. Bull. NuU. Ornith. Club, III; 1S78, p. 69. 



3. Condor, II; 1900, p. 227. 



4. Ibid, p. 85. 



