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Setophaga ruticilla (Liyv.). 
AMERICAN REDSTART. 
Setophaga ruticilla BeELp1nG, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., VI. 1883, 350 (Miraflores ;? La 
Paz). Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 313 (Miraflores). 
A female Redstart shot by Mr. Belding at Miraflores on February 24, 1888, 
is the only specimen known to have been taken in Lower California, although 
Mr. Belding thinks that he saw another at La Paz in March. The species has 
been found but twice in California, at Hayward’s on June 20, 1881, by Mr. 
W. O. Emerson, and at Marysville Buttes on June 6, 1884, by Mr. Belding. 
It is probably merely a chance straggler to the Pacific coast of Upper and 
Lower California, although in British Columbia it is ‘* found throughout the 
southern portions of the Provinee, and through the interior as far as Barker- 
ville,” but nowhere very commonly. 
The winter home of the Redstart includes western Mexico and the whole of 
Central America with northern South America to about the line of the Equator. 
Motacilla ocularis Swing. 
SwWINHOE’s WaGTAIL. 
Motacilla ocularis Ripeway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., IV. 1882, 414 (crit.; La Paz) ; 
VI. 1888, 158 footnote (crit.; S. Lower Calif.). Brtpine, Jbid., V. 1888, 
585 (La Paz). Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 313 (La 
Paz). 
An “adult specimen in winter plumage” of this east Asiatic species was 
taken by Mr. Belding at La Paz on ‘‘ January 9, 1882, during a cold gale from 
the north. It was found on a drift of sea-weed on the beach.” This bird was 
doubtless a mere waif which had either wandered across the Pacific Ocean or 
had crossed Bering Strait and thence followed the coastline southward. 
M. ocularts has been repeatedly noted at Plover Bay, Siberia, and it probably 
visits Alaska more or less frequently and regularly, although the only really 
valid record of its occurrence in any part of North America, other than that 
furnished by Mr. Belding’s specimen, is the mention in the Catalogue of the 
Birds in the British Museum ? of a young bird in the collection of that in- 
stitution which was obtained in “N. W. America” by Captain Kellett and 
Lieutenant Wood, 
1 Fannin, Check List Birds British Columbia, 1891, 42. 
2 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., X. 1885, 473. 
