July, 191,3 
THE ALL-DAY TEST AT SANTA BARBARA 
1,57 
California Yellow Warbler 6 
Tule Yellow-throat 6 
Golden Pileolated Warbler 3 
Western Tanager i 
Brewer Blackbird 80 
Arizona Hooded Oriole 2 
Tricolored Redwing 1000 
San Diego Redwing 100 
Yellow-headed Blackbird 4 
Western Meadowlark 8 
Willow Goldfinch 20 
Green-backed Goldfinch 80 
Lawrence Goldfinch 2 
California Purple Finch 2 
California Linnet 500 
Western Lark Sparrow 22 
Western Savanna Sparrow 1 
Belding Marsh Sparrow 20 
Western Grasshopper 
Sparrow 1 
Rufous-crowned Sparrow 1 
Western Chipping Spar- 
row 3 
San Diego Song Sparrow 20 
Spurred Towhee 6 
Anthony Brown Towhee 40 
Lazuli Bunting 20 
Pacific Black-headed 
Grosbeak 40 
English Sparrow 4 
It will be readily seen that the most significant feature of the day’s horizon 
is the almost total lack of migrants save for the LiinicoUv. The io8 birds seen 
fall into six categories. (i) Migrating Liinicolcc: all save Snowy Plover and 
Killdeer. (2) Other migrants: Bonaparte Gulls, For.ster Terns, and Western 
Tanagers alone. (3) Breeding birds: constituting the bulk of the horizon, prob- 
ably 80 species. (4) Left-overs: immature, decrepit and non-breeding birds, such 
as the two Scoters, Glaucous and Herring Gulls, Red-breasted Merganser, West- 
ern Grebe, Pintail and, possibly, Shovellers. (5) Waifs: isolated migrants lost 
from the main host or wandering aimlessly for lack of company, typified by 
Snowy Heron and Northern Phalarope. (6) Visitors from distant breeding 
haunts, as the two Cormorants and California Brown Pelican. 
The following species were observed within the general region traversed 
above during the week preceding the test ; viz., April 28-May 4. 
Loon 
Pacific Loon 
Anthony Green Heron 
Green-winged Teal 
Prairie Falcon 
White-tailed Kite 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 
Cooper Hawk 
Light-footed Rail 
Wilson Phalarope (A. B. 
Howell) 
Long-billed Dowitcher (A. 
B. H.) 
Knot 
Baird Sandpiper 
Wandering Tattler (A. B. 
H.) 
Surf-bird (A. B. H.) 
Parasitic Jaeger 
California Gull 
Road-runner 
Itarn Owl 
Rufous Hummingbird 
Vaux Swift 
Willow Woodpecker 
Wright Flycatcher 
Ash-throated Flycatcher 
American Pipit 
Tule Wren 
Dotted Canyon Wren 
Blue-fronted Jay 
Calaveras Warbler 
Black-throated Gray Warb- 
ler 
almost certainly resident 
The following species not observed on May 5 were 
at that time within the area traversed. 
Bittern California Pigmy Owl Common Rock Wren 
Burrowing Owl Dusky Poorwill » Western Gnatcatcher 
This gives, on a very conservative basis, a grand total of 144 species pres- 
ent within eight days, a modest number which I venture to predict will be re- 
corded eventually in a single day from some California point. As contrasted 
with the abundance of last year, I need only mention that upon the 29th of April, 
1912, we had twelve species of warblers upon our little acre at Los Colibris at 
one time; whereas the list of May 5, 1913, contains only four warblers. More- 
over, there were eight species of warblers still present on the 7th of May last 
year. 
The world’s record “horizon” of 144 species was taken on the 13th day of 
May, 1907, by Professor Lynds Jones and two other observers near Oberlin, 
Ohio. They traversed a range of country absolutely more extensive (using the 
trolley to effect a change of base of thirty miles), as well as ecologically more 
varied. The Oberlin list boasts twenty-nine species of warblers and thirty water- 
and shore-birds, as compared with our four warblers and thirty-eight water- and 
shore-birds. Bearing the warbler bonus in mind, therefore, and the not great 
