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Mr. Belding (2. s. c.) that it is common in the breeding-season, and Mr. Brewster has found it in the 
same place in autumn and winter (Auk, vii. p. 227). Messrs. Richmond and Knowlton (Auk, xi. 
p. 308) state that they found the present species common in the valleys in Montana, and also noted 
it in some numbers in the mountains. Near Fort Keogh, in the same State, Mr. Thorne states that 
it breeds commonly, and he has even found it in the pine-woods during the breeding-season, fifty 
miles from any house (Auk, xii. p. 219). 
Dr. Merriam gives the following note in his paper on the birds observed by him in South E 
Central Idaho (N. Amer. Faun. no. 9, p. 108) :—* Tolerably common іп July along Snake River, | | 
near Blackfoot, in the Lost River Mountains, and on Big Lost River. In August and September a | 
few were seen from time to time in Lemhi and Birch Creek Valleys and in the upper part of Wood | А 
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River Valley, but it was nowhere common. A flock remained for several days about the head of 
Saw Tooth or Alturas Lake the last week of September." 
Mr. A. W. Anthony says that the Robin is abundant in Washington, Co. Oregon, nearly the | 
entire year, only leaving for a few days in the wet season (Auk, iii. p. 172). Не noticed it on the | 
17th and 21st of January, and by the 10th of February it was common. At Beaverton the first nest | 
was found on the 24th of April (cf. Belding, 4. s. с.). Dr. Merrill says that near Fort Klamath it was | | 
rare during the winter, but began to arrive on the 7th of March, and became common in three or | 
four days, Ву Ше 186 of May many nests contained their full complement of eggs (Auk, v. p. 365). 
Mr. L. Belding, in his paper on the birds of Central California, writes as follows :—“ This bird 
visits the valleys only in winter, when it is sometimes abundant, especially during the coldest 
weather. In summer it is rarely seen out of the pine-forests, though about the 1st of September, М 
1878, twenty-five or thirty were observed in an orchard at Murphy's (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 395). 
Тһе same observer gives some further notes (Occ. Papers Calif. Acad. ii. p. 256):—* Gridley, L 
Oct. 1-3: snow on both sides of the valley above about 3000 feet. Not seen here again this winter | 
(1884-85).” 1 
Mr. Charles Townsend, in his account of the birds &c. of Northern California (Proc. U.S. Nat. ty 
Mus. x. p. 231), writes :—“ More common in the cultivated valleys than elsewhere, but never 
abundant as Robins are in the long-settled sections of the Eastern States. Stragglers were met with L 
in the foot-hills of Shasta County at all seasons of the year. The first nest was found at the United 
States fishery on May 21st. It was high up on the horizontal limb of a “live oak’ by the river, and L 
contaiued four eggs. Specimens were obtained in the mountains along McCloud River in January, 
and on the timber-line of Mount Shasta in August." According to the same observer (t. с. p. 237), | 
the species breeds from 300 to 6000 feet, and is found as high as 8500 feet in summer. | 
<“ Oroville, January and December, rare. Colfax and Alta, very rare in the middle of November. | 
Summit «nd Donner Lake, not seen from November 13 to 17, although it was mild and scarcely any W 
snow had fallen. It is a common summer resident in the fir-forests of California from latitude 38° Ih 
northward; never breeding in orchards or about settlements in California, I believe. At Blood’s, 1 
altitude 7200 feet, young did not begin to leave their nests until July 14, 1880, nearly a month later A 
than in the following year, owing to difference in the winters snowfall and consequent difference in il 
the advent of summer.” ү 
* San Diego.—Common in the winter of 1883-84. It disappeared March 22, but returned on | 
the 29th, and remained two days, while the mountains east of San Diego were covered with snow. 
No Robins were seen during 
One was seen at Campo, May 14, just previous to a rainstorm. 
a four days journey south of Campo, about half of which was through pine-clad mountains, 
from May 9 to 13. Mr. T. E. Wadham collected it in Lower California, about ninety miles 
south-east of San Diego, April 22. Ніз specimens showed no leaning toward var. confinis of the 
Cape region. 
