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neus) and Chipping Sparrow (Spizella socialis), which were 
wintering there in small flocks. 
Next day I was disgusted to find my specimens damaged 
by mice, and, on setting a trap, soon secured some which 
I cannot distinguish, except by a lighter hue, from the 
common woodmouse of California (Hesperomys Gambellii). 
These, with several other rodents, had taken up their resi- 
dence in the thatched roofs of our adobé quarters. On 
Christmas eve a little ice formed in the valley, but next 
morning the Brown Thrush (Harporhynchus crissalis) of 
this region was singing melodiously, and exactly in the style 
of its cousins east and west, so well known as “False 
Mocking Birds.” It is another of the dead leaf-colored 
birds of the western regions, and is as strictly limited to 
the groves as its pale sandy-hued relative, H. Lecontez, is to 
the desert shrubbery.* . 
The end of the year was cold and stormy for this latitude, 
so that no additions, except more northern migrants, were 
obtained among the birds, the most notable being the Ore- 
gon Snowbird (Junco Oregonus), and a few of the Meadow 
Lark (Sturnella neglectà), with several species of ducks and 
Seese. In January, Swans (Cygnus Americanus) also ap- 
peared for a few days. On Jan. 10th I was both surprised 
and pleased to obtain a beautiful specimen of the Bohemian 
Waxwing CAmpelis garrulus), which had wandered so far 
from the mountains north-eastward, where the species 
abounds, and, probably driven by storms, had sought a tem- 
porary refuge in this far southern latitude. It was a solitary 
Straggler, and even its cousin, A. cedrorum, never appeared 
there during my residence. : 
_ On the 16th a solitary Mexican Flycatcher (Myiarchus 
Mexicanus), evidently almost starved, gave a specimen of 
the summer group of migrants lingering in the valley 
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