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Santa Cruz. A. M. Ingersoll.— I saw about a dozen 

 here and one at Olema. It is quite rare. 



Henshaw, 1876. By far the most abundant of the 

 three species seen in California. Common everywhere; 

 where the presence of pines affords them the hunting 

 grounds they most affect. 



[Mr. Henshaw refers,, I suppose, to Fort Tejon,Mt. 

 Whitney, Kernville, and other localities where he col- 

 lected in 1875]. 



Tehachapi. L. B.— March 30, 1889, a small flock in 

 pine forest. 



Baird, Brewer and Ridgway. Dr. Gambel mentions 

 their almost extraordinary abundance in the winter 

 months in upper California. Around Monterey at times 

 the trees appeared almost alive with them. 



L. B. — The type was collected at Monterey, south of 

 which Dr. Cooper says he has not seen the species. Dr. 

 Heermann does not appear to have met it during about 

 three years collecting in California. Dr. Newberry says: 

 " We saw it in most wooded places where water was near 

 and any considerable amount of animal life was visible," 

 probably refering to the region east of the Sierra Nevada 

 and Cascades. I saw a few at Big Trees in July, 1878, 

 and have not been able to find the species in California 

 since then, except at Tehachapi in 1889, and four in- 

 dividuals during ten days collecting in Monterey County. 

 Dr. Cooper says: "It was met with only in the open 

 pine forests at Fort Colville, near the 49th degree. 

 * * * This bird, like many other California species, 

 probably migrates only along the east side of the moun- 

 tains, shunning the damp spruce forests near the coast," 

 all of which taken together tends to prove that it has 

 never been generally distributed west of the mountains. 



British Columbia. John Fannin. — Common summer 

 resident; accidental west of the Cascades. 



Henshaw, 1879 (east slope). The most numerous of 



