16 ANIMAL LIFE OF THE CUYAMACA MOUNTAINS. 
of small and prolific species become very abundant after one or 
two rainy years. Hares and rabbits may then be seen by hun- 
dreds at a time, and the California quail as well as other resident 
birds show the same rapid increase in such years, when food is 
abundant. Two very dry years preceded this, and consequently 
all these animals had become quite scarce.* 
BIRDS. a these I give a list, with such notes as seem requisite. [Those marked ł 
try from January to — 1862.] Turkey buzzard 
(Cathartes aura), chiefly seen near base of mountains; prairie falcon (F. polyagrws), 
seen once or twice; sparrow hawk singel te apr verius), “quite ss sharp- 
shinned hawk (Accipiter fuscus), not rare; bro , very com- 
mon from the base to the mines, L5G í nes aliada g always prized, bu t I did not 
find any nests nor shoot a specimen. i seems to be the form sarih e of 
this region, though the western red-tail (B. baa is also None of B. 
Swainsonii seen. Squirrel hawk (Ar chibuteo ee krh near a open plan ; 
marsh hawk (Circus Hudsonius), at alm very me anew or ded prem; 
t Golden eagle (Aquila Canadensis), seen rarely ; bo Vi Ap 
seen m: chara on all par ts of the route where any trees exist; burrowing owl (At 
FOU 
ER Oe ee 
Hair ow woodpecker (Picus Harrisii), a common sateen in eps forests high up; 
California woodpecker (Melanerpes micivorus), very co n, probably up to the 
highest summits, but not age to the mésa, chiefly in the o 
t Lewis’ woodpecker (M. quatus), not uncommon in a higher mountains; red 
Skana flicker (Colaptes Meefoama), à se megs Apai sical a humming- 
t re they proba a 
breed. Ann na eilidean te Ča oe oat suits ob common along tha route. The 
were perhaps other cate pie I aid not identify th 
t Oregon swift (Chet mig g 
26th, and may DaM summer in ike: ala, [The rare white-throa 
(Panyptila aT reeds in the Santa Anna mountains, fifty miles north, and 
perhaps in these.] 
t Poor sby (Antrostomus Hayre steaks = Cajon valley. I both heard and saw 
these sei near San Francisco as early 20th. Arkansas and Cassin’s kingbi 
{! verticalis and T. T. vociferans), sia mes ed near the foot-hills, or below. Ash- 
mateg Ayeatehor (Myiarchus Mexicanus), n re up to 4,000 feet altitude; black 
pewee ceayore TE chiefiy abont = Tooth 
fp Lith aor ramped other eres miers bat 
not numerous up to 4,500 feet altitude; anne rush (Turdus nanus), ¢ 
thickets; robin (7. migratorius), common near the nA forests jac ae aN ee 
western bluebird (Siatia Mexicana), abund ant througho ut the nica yellow-throat 
ae me: Batts 
( Geothly 
+ Macgillivray’s warbler (G. Mugiorey, not so common, the in drier localities 
orange-crow: s ta), abundant ; in the lower parts. 
t Western warbler Dendreca occidentalis) oat nd 4,500 feet 
altitude, and probably remains all summer. This is the first time me — seen this 
at the "m 
bia river, and as pnr as Apr Ist, at Petaluma, California, atte ss". Large num- 
bers of this and the next four Ww th slopes, and 
though still awa a were Since a little, and doubtless build there. The others 
were Townsend’s, i the gray, Audubon’s and t the s ummer ie . Towns 
1); oods, as 
it doos at 6,00 ne ); Audabon’s Iy In the highest w + 
ude 39°; black-capped war bier ( 
ar ata ot tae ek a Coast Slope” in ‘thistjournal, a 
ree a Science, v, Feb., is. i 
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