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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XIV 
TABI,K SHOWING RECORDED OCCURRENCES OF THE CAIJFORNIA PINE GROSBEAK 
RECORDED BY 
YEAR 
LOCALITY AND REMARKS 
PUBLICATION 
James G. Cooper 
1868 
Johnson’s Pass, Sierra Nev- 
ada, Sept. * 
Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., iv, p. 8 
“ ‘ ‘ 
1870 
Resident on high Sierra Nev. 
Orn. Calif., i. p. 151 
Bairil, Brewer and Ridgway 
1874 
Summit Central Pac. R. R. 
Pass, 7000 ft. 
Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, p. 453 
Robert Ridgway 
1878 
vSoda Springs, Placer Co. 
Bull. Nutt Orn. Club, iii, p. 66 
Lyman Belding 
1879 
Soda Springs, Sept. 1 
Eroc. Ul S. Nat. Mus.,i, p. 412 
1890 
Blood’s, Calaveras Co., July 
16, 1880 
Land Birds Pac. Dist. , p. 131 
Summit, C. P. R. R. , Placer Co. 
August 11, 1882, and between 
June 23 and Sept, 1885 
A. K. B'islier 
1893 
Head .San Joaquin River, 
July 30, 1891 
N. Am. Fauna, no. 7, p. 79 
William W. Price 
1897 
pyramid Peak, August 5,1892 
Auk, XIV, p. 184 
.Silver Lake, Amador Co., 
June 27, 1895 
“ “ p. 185 
h ' 
Pyramid Peak, July and 
August, 1895 and 1896 
Chester Barlow 
1900 
Eorni Meadow, El Dorado 
Co., June 9, 1900 
Condor, ii, p. 107 
Milton vS. Ray 
1910 
Pyramid Peak Plateau, El 
Dorado Co., June 9, 1910 
Condor, XII, p. 149 
1910 
Pyramid Peak, June 10, 1910, 
altitude 9000 ft. 
1912 
Lake of the Woods, El Dor- 
ado Co., July 1, 1909 
Condor xiv, p. 13 
* Two skins taken by J. G. Cooper are now ill the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. These bear 
data ill Cooper’s handwriting as follows. Mus. no. 4134: ‘‘Piuicola i Siinimit Johnson's Pass | Sept. 22-63 J. G. C.” 
(The other side of the label gives measurements: the bird is evidently an immature male, though the sex mark 
is omitted.) Mus. no. 4133: ''Piuicola Canadensis <5 | Summit, Placer Co,, Cal. 1 July 26th, ’70 J. G. C." (Th 
other side of the label gives measurements and color of iris, bill and feet.) 
writes as follows ( 1897) : "This apparently very distinct Piuicola is an inhabitant 
of the higher Sierra Nevada Mountains of Central California. It is strictly an 
alpine species : I have never seen it below 7000 feet and 1 have taken it near the 
timber-line. It is peculiar to the belt of tamarack pine {Finns niurrayana) , and 
the beautiful red alpine fir (Abies niagnifica) , and most of the specimens taken 
w^ere in groves of this latter tree. According' to my observations this bird is 
uncommon, for, during several vacations spent in the higher Sierra, I have met 
with it only on rare occasions. The first time I saw this Grosbeak was on the 
evening of August 5, 1892, near Pyramid Peak. I was returning to my camp 
along the margin of a shallow alpine lake, bordered by a dense growth of Abies 
niagnifica, wdien a grayish bird fiew fearlessly to the edge of the water within 
a few feet of me. The color was so very similar to that of Townsend’s Solitaire, 
M yadestes tozvnscndii, 1 might in the twfilight have passed it for that species had 
I not caught a glimpse of its large and heavy bill. I secured it, and to my sur- 
prise found it an adult female Piuicola, the first I had ever seen from California. 
I saw no more that summer though I spent over a month in the higher alti- 
tudes. 
“The next time I observed the species was in 1895. I obtained, June 27, a 
fine male near Silver Lake in Amador Co. (about 20 miles due south of Pyramid 
Peak), and saw on the same date a female which was evidently its mate. No 
