48 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Poway. F. E. Blaisdell. — Resident. 



San Bernardino. F. Stephens. — Rare resident of the 

 valley. 



Los Angeles. Henshaw, 1876. — Seen several times. 



Santa Paula, Ventura County. B. W. Evermann. — 

 February 16, 1881, laying already. 



Alameda and Contra Costa counties. W. E. Bry- 

 ant. — Rare resident. 



Sebastopol. F. H. Holmes. — Collected here. 



Central California. L. B. — Apparently rare; seen 

 only on a few occasions in the valleys and once in the 

 foothills. I have several times seen three or four in the 

 high Sierra, perhaps migrants, but possibly summer 

 residents of these mountains. 



Ridgway. Seldom if ever did we enter a willow copse 

 of any extent without starting one or more. This was 

 the case both near the Sacramento and in the interior, 

 and in summer as well as in winter. 



Cooper, 1860. Obtained only once on the banks of 

 the Columbia near the Dalles, November, 1853. 



British Columbia. John Fannin. — Summer resident; 

 not common. 



Henshaw, 1879. Numerous in the thickets of the 

 low lands, where it is resident throughout the year. 



Camp Harney. Bendire. — Moderately abundant and 

 resident, frequenting the dense thickets along streams, 

 and here constructing their own nests. 



Hoffman. Very common in every favorable locality. 

 Near Carlin and at various localities west and south of 

 that place. 



Cooper, 1870. Wanders into the barren, treeless des- 

 erts east of the Sierra Nevada. 



47. Asio accipitrinus (Pall.) Short-eared Owl. 



F. E. Blaisdell. — One shot at Temecula, November 13, 

 1883; I have not seen it at Poway. 



