in winter to Northern States, etc. Opinion. — Highly probable, although no specimen preserved, 

 and not elsewhere reported south of Harney Count}', Oregon. 



5. Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus). Eastern Cardinal. 



Introduced in Sacramento County in 1880 and survived for some years (Belding, Land 

 Birds of the Pac. Dist., 1890, p. 175), but not now known as having survived. Several other 

 records, all presumably of escaped cage or aviary specimens. 



6. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata sinuata (Bonaparte). Arizona Pyrrhuloxia. 



Authority: Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii., 1888, p. 158, records specimen from "Cali- 

 fornia"; and Coues (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, p. 90) from Ft. Yuma (Arizona, on banks 

 of the Colorado River). Normal Range: Southern Arizona, southern New Mexico and western 

 Texas, south through western Mexico to Sinoloa. Opinion. — In all probability has occurred in 

 Colorado River valley and, possibly, in the old mesquite forest of the Coachella trough, but records 

 not considered as established. 



7. Piranga rubriceps Gray. Gray's Tanager. 



Authority: W. E. Bryant reports (Auk, iv., 1887, p. 78) specimen shot by W. G. Blunt at 

 Dos Palos (later, Naples), Santa Barbara County, "about 1871." Normal Range: Colombia, 

 Ecuador, Peru. Opinion. — Probably an escaped cage-bird. 



8. Dendroica graciaj Baird. Grace's Warbler. 



Authority: Evermann, Auk, iii., 1886, p. 185, records specimen shot near Santa Paula, 

 Ventura County, May 3, 1881 — lost in San Francisco fire, 1906. Normal Range: Breeds in 

 mountains of Arizona, New Mexico and southern Colorado, south to Sonora and Chihuahua. 

 Opinion. — Probably a good record, but may possibly have been off plumage of Townsend Warbler. 



9. Toxostoma rufum (Linnaeus). Brown Thrasher. 



Authority: Baird(?) in Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Hist. N. A. Birds, iii., 1874, p. 500, 

 reports a specimen seen but not secured by Dr. J. G. Cooper at Clear Lake in September, 1870. 

 Normal Range: Eastern North America, exceptionally west to Wyoming and even Arizona. 

 Opinion. — Occurrence entirely possible, but data regrettably meager. 



10. Motacilla ocularis Swinhoe. Swinhoe's Wagtail. 



The appearance of a bird believed to be of this species in Santa Barbara (about 1912?) was 

 reported by the late Bradford Torrey to his friends, but the observer's modesty prevented a pub- 

 lished claim. Mr. Torrey had the bird at close range and could hardly have been mistaken. 

 The species summers in northern Siberia, and there are Alaskan records of stragglers, one even 

 from Lower California! (Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv., 1882, 414, La Paz, L. C). 



11. Muscivora tyrannus (Linnaeus). . Fork-tailed Flycatcher. 



Authority: Toppan, Ornithologist and Oologist, ix., 1884, p. 48, reports having received 

 from a dealer at Santa Monica a specimen said to have been shot near that place in late summer 

 1883. The specimen in question was destroyed by fire in 1896. Normal Range: Southern 

 Mexico to Patagonia, but has wandered north on several occasions and as far as Maine. Opinion. — 

 Entirely possible, but data "regrettably meager." 



12. Eugenes fulgens (Swainson). Rivoli's Hummer. 



Authority: Loomis, Auk, xix., 1902, p. 83, states that a male was taken by J. A. Kusche 

 in San Gorgonio Pass, Riverside County, July 15, 1899, and that the specimen was placed in the 

 Academy collections (destroyed by fire in 1906). This record has been questioned by Stephens 

 (Condor, iv., 1902, p. 42), but the occurrence at the point claimed of a species which breeds in the 

 mountains of southeastern Arizona (south to Nicaragua) is not at all impossible. 



13. "Archilochus violajugulum" (Jeffries). Violet-throated Hummingbird. 



Described by its discoverer, J. A. Jeffries, who took type and only specimen at Santa Barbara, 

 April 5, 1883 (Auk, v., 1888, p. 168). The specimen, an adult male, is conceded to be a hybrid 

 between two local species, Archilochus alexandri and Calypte anna. 



14. "Selasphorus floresii" Gould. Floresi's Hummingbird. 



Originally described by Gould in 1861 from a specimen said to have been taken at Bolanos, 

 Jalisco, Mexico; but since the only other known specimens, three in number (San Francisco, by 

 W. E. Bryant, 1885; Haywards, by O. Emerson, Feb. 20, 1901; and Nicasio, Marin Co., by W. P. 

 Taylor, Feb. 26, 1909), hail from "the Bay section" of California, it is surmised that Floresi, who 

 also collected in California, may really have collected his "Balanos" specimen in the same locality. 

 The form is, unquestionably, a hybrid between Selasphorus alleni and Calypte anna, — respectively 

 our earliest migrant and exclusively resident species. 



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