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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XVII 
partment relating to the occurrences of two interesting species. While other 
counties of this state have been exceedingly popular with ornithologists, and the 
avifauna in most cases well written up, this county has scarcely been touched. 
And furthermore it is one of the most accessible of the coastal counties and a 
great deal more so than some of the Sierran divisions. And further than this it 
is one of the most interesting of all the coastal counties in the matter of its bird- 
life. 
H. 0. Jenkins in his paper in The Condor, vol. vm, pages 122-130, pointed 
out one very important fact regarding the country, as follows: “The region 
traversed was particularly interesting in that it was found to be the southern 
limit of the Humid Coast Belt of California. Several northern plants and ani- 
mals find their southern limits in this place and some northern forms intergrade 
through this region with closely allied southern forms.’’ This of course pertains 
only to that part of the county lying along the coast and more properly within 
the Transition zone, not to the flora and fauna of the Sonoran zones which lie 
within the county. 
The basis of the present paper consists of field notes and specimens collected 
during two trips made by Mr. Pemberton. The first trip was made by Mr. Pem- 
berton in company with M. P. Anderson between December 20, 1903, and Janu- 
ary 6, 1904, and involved an excursion from Monterey southward along the coast 
to Posts and return. A fairly representative collection of the winter birds and 
mammals was made on this trip, and some 70 species of birds were noted. The 
second trip was made in the summer of 1909 between the dates May 15 and June 
6, and the itinerary took the party from Kings City in the eastern part of the 
county westward to the coast in the vicinity of Lucia, then northward along the 
coast to near Posts and a return to Kings City to the north of the route followed 
in the first part of the journey. The party on this trip consisted of H. W. Carri- 
ger, G. A. Macready, Dr. J. P. Smith and J. R. Pemberton. Carriger and Pem- 
berton were collecting birds, while Macready studied geology and Dr. Smith 
caught trout. Just in passing it may be stated that trout fishing in this region 
is of a superfine quality, there being many many more fish than there are fisher- 
men, the reverse being the case in many parts of the state. 
On this second trip a rather complete list of the land birds of the Transition 
and Upper Sonoran zones was made, and from this list the present paper has 
been written. 
Monterey county, lying about the middle of the state and directly on the 
Pacific coast, is about 100 miles long with an average width of about 30 miles. 
The coastal third consists of a lofty range of mountains dropping directly into 
the sea, and it is here that climatic conditions of the moist, coastal zone of the 
more northern parts of the state reach their southern limit. South of this region 
the coastal zone lies in the San Diegan faunal area, the flora and fauna being 
very different. Jenkins has well shown the character of the coastal belt of Mon- 
terey County and. given a list of the plants of the different vertical zones along 
the seacoast. Suffice it to say that this coastal part of the county lies in the 
Transition zone. 
The eastern side of the county consists of a low, rolling, rather bare range 
of hills, broken about the middle of the county by a wide valley, a part of the 
central Salinas Valley. 
In the center of the county lies another range of mountains parallel to the 
eastern and western ranges and more or less connected to the western range in 
tlie center of the county where the mountains are the highest. It. is in this range 
