1913] Grinnellr-Swarth : Birds and Mammals of San Jacinto 313 



We found them most elusive birds, hard to secure, or even 

 to catch sight of, flitting through the bushes with hardly a sound ; 

 while the vegetation was so whipped about by the hard winds 

 prevailing, that any small birds were extremely difficult to see. 



Chamaea fasciata henshawi Ridgway 

 Pallid Wren-tit 



A common species in the chaparral throughout the mountains. 

 On the San Gorgonio Pass side of the range the wren-tit, together 

 with several other species of the same association, ranges down 

 quite to the base of the hills, where it stops abruptly, not ven- 

 turing out on the nearby desert floor. At Dos Palmos, about 

 the point of mergence of the Upper and Lower Sonoran zones, 

 an occasional brood was seen wandering down from the brush 

 to the pools in the canon below. The birds were common at the 

 Garnet Queen Mine, the upper limit of the brush belt in the 

 Santa Rosa Mountains. Throughout Ilemet Valley, from Vande- 

 venter Flat to Hemet Lake, and from there on down the San 

 Jacinto River road clear to the base of the mountains at Valle- 

 vista, the call of the wren-tit was the most familiar and often 

 heard bird note. In the late summer they were found straying 

 upwards far above their breeding ground. One was seen on the 

 Tahquitz trail at about 8000 feet, July 17, and on July 22 one 

 was heard near the summit of Tahquitz Peak. 8826 feet. The 

 upper limit of the breeding range in the San Jacinto Mountains 

 is probably in the neighborhood of 6000 feet. 



Eleven specimens of the wren-tit were secured, from the fol- 

 lowing points: Cabezon, three (nos. 1645. 2119, 2120), Banning, 

 one (no. 2049), Schain's Ranch, one (no. 1805), Kenworthy, one 

 (no. 2277), Hemet Lake, one (no. 3007), Garnet Queen Mine, 

 one (no. 2366), Dos Palmos. one (no. 2533). Vallevista, two (nos. 

 3128, 3129). 



Regulus satrapa olivaceus Baird 



Western Golden-crowned Kinglet 



Seen on several occasions in Tahquitz Valley and in Round 



Valley. They were first noted on July 26, when a small flock, 



probably a single family, was encountered in some willows border- 



