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authors suggest that it is possible that this species may occur in 

 southern Oregon near the California-Oregon State line. The A.O.U. 

 Check-list (1957:328) gives southern Humboldt County, California, as 

 the species' northern limit. 



Dendrocopos albolarvatus. White-headed Woodpecker. 



The White-headed Woodpecker is a rare permanent resident. There 

 are two summer records in Jackson County: One was seen in Mixed 

 Conifer Forest between Fish Lake and Willow Creek Reservoir on 

 July 19, 1961, and one was observed chasing a Yellow-bellied Sap- 

 sucker in a ponderosa pine forest near Jenny Creek (extreme south- 

 eastern part of the county) on June 16, 1967. Stevenson and Fitch 

 (1933) saw a male on December 16, 1932, in yellow pine at Lake of 

 the Woods in the Cascade Mountains. Gabrielson and Jewett (1940) 

 reported this species in mixed yellow pine and oak in northern Jackson 

 County in the vicinity of Crater Lake National Park (probably 

 north of Union Creek), the Siskiyou Mountains, and Rustler Peak 

 (Cascade Mountains). Farner (1952) considers this woodpecker to 

 be a rare summer resident in Crater National Park. 



Picoides arcticus. Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker. 



Specimen: 16.1 km E and 4.8 km N Ashland, male, May 1, 1960. 

 The only recent records of this rare species are from Gardner Reservoir 

 and near Wagner Butte (1,829 m) where one individual was seen on 

 June 11, 1956, and March 15, 1961, respectively. Gabrielson and 

 Jewett (1940) list the summit and western slope of the Cascades, 

 and the Siskiyou Mountains in Jackson County as part of this wood- 

 pecker's permanent range. 



Picoides tridactylus. Northern Three-toed Woodpecker. 



The Northern Three-toed Woodpecker is rare and is known from 

 two sight records. One was observed near Mount Ashland on May 18, 

 1962, and one on the northern slope of Roxy Ann Peak on December 

 28, 1962. Gabrielson and Jewett (1940) list the Canadian Life Zone 

 (=True Fir Forest?) of the Siskiyou Mountains for this species' 

 range and consider it a permanent resident. 



Tyrannus tyrannus. Eastern Kingbird. 



This species is an occasional rare summer resident in the Hoover's 

 Lakes area. Two Eastern Kingbirds were seen there on June 25, 1959, 

 one on June 6, 1960, one May 27, 1961, and one May 30, 1962. A 

 pair was reported near Ashland during June 1964. Gabrielson and 

 Jewett (1940) consider this kingbird to be a common summer resident 

 east of the Cascades. 



Tyrannus verticalis. Western Kingbird. 



Specimen: 19.3 km N Medford, male. May 5, 1961. The Western 

 Kingbird is a common summer resident and breeding species in the 



