BIRDS OF THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 79 



San Bernardino Valley. F. Stephens. — Rare sum- 

 mer resident. 



Cooper, 1870.— On the 17th of April I saw the first of 

 this species at Fort Mojave. About the 25th of May 

 they were paired. I found them as far west as the Coast 

 Mountains. 



Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, vol.-iii, 521. Dr. Cooper 

 shot a single specimen of this species near San Buena- 

 ventura, April 18, 1873. 



87. Cypseloides niger (Gmel.) Black Swift. 



San Diego, May 21, 1881, a flock of twenty or more 

 flew over the mesa near town. As it was sunset when 

 they passed, I supposed they were going to their nests 

 for the ijight. The next evening I stationed myself 

 where I had seen them, and got a specimen, as they flew 

 in the same direction they did the previous evening. 

 Big Trees, June 8, three seen; Weber Lake, August 1, 

 1889, one seen. Seen on a few other occasions in 

 mountains of Central California in late summer. — L. B. 



Seattle. 0. B. Johnson.— April 9, 1884. 



British Columbia. John Fannin. — Tolerably abund- 

 ant summer resident. Burrard's Inlet, May 26, 1885, 

 first; May 28, next seen; common June 15; breeds. 



Ridgway. — Truckee Reservation, May 31, 1868, speci- 

 men. On the 23d of June following we found it abund- 

 ant in the valley of the Carson River. They were 

 evidently breeding in the locality. 



Hay wards. W. 0. Emerson. — April 19, 1885, thirteen 

 birds. 



88. Chaetura vauxii (Towns.) Vaux's Swift. 



San Diego, April 28, 1884, two specimens from a small 

 flock which was seen but a short time during a cool rain 

 storm. 



