The Scott Oriole 



General Range. — Lower Sonoran zone from southern California, southwestern 

 Utah, and western Texas, south to Lower California and through Mexico to Michoacan 

 and Vera Cruz; winters south of the American border. 



Distribution in California. — Resident in summer in the arid Upper Sonoran 

 fringes of the southeastern deserts, breeding from the tree yucca to the pinyon associa- 

 tions, chiefly upon the flanks of the desert-facing mountains, north to the Inyo Moun- 

 tains; also near San Diego (Browne), and on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada in 

 Walker Pass, Kern County (Grinnell). Of casual occurrence during migrations in the 

 San Diegan district, west to Santa Barbara (May 7, 1913). 



Authorities. — Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, p. 276; Browne, Auk, vol. viii., 1891, 

 p. 238; Fisher, A. K., N. Amer. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, pp. 67-68 (range and nest); Anthony, 

 Auk, vol. x., 1894, pp. 327-328 (in San Diego Co.) ; Bendire, Life Hist. N. Amer. Birds, 

 vol. ii., 1895, pp. 471-474, pi. vi., figs. 28, 29 (habits, nest and eggs); Grinnell, Condor, 

 vol. xii., 1910, p. 46 (range); Willett, Pac. Coast Avifauna, no. 7, 1912, p. 71 (status in 

 s. Calif.) 



Taken in San Bernardino County Photo by Wright M. Pierce 



NEST OF SCOTT'S ORIOLE— SUSPENDED FROM YUCCA BRANCHES 



"AWAKENING SONGS" are all very well for poets and milk 

 peddlers, who require little sleep, but they are much resented by the 

 average Californian, and especially by those of us who affect sleeping 

 porches. It is for this reason that the author, blessed (or plagued) with 

 a keen sense of hearing, confesses to sleeping with a huge pillow plastered 

 over his ear. But the angel of bird-men, relentless as a Pullman porter, 



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