Pacific Coast Avifauna 16

421 FROM THE MUSEUM OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERK$LEY, CALIFORNIA Published by the Club September 15, 1924... Contains frequent references to birds, tho

PACIFIC COAST AVIFAUNA

CONTRIBUTION No 421 FROM THE

MUSEUM OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY

OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

BERK$LEY, CALIFORNIA

Published by the Club

September 15, 1924

COOPER ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB

PACIFIC COAST AVIFAUNA

CONTRIBUTION No 421 FROM THE

MUSEUM OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY

OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Published by the Club September 15, 1924

PACIFIC COAST AVIFAUNA No I6 is the sixteenth in a series of publications issued

PAGES

Introduction _. _ _ 5 Bibliography 7-173 Index to Authors 175 179 Index to Local Lists 18 l-182 Index to Bird Names _ 183-191

INTRODUCTION

is 4071

installment

December J1,1923

JOSEPH GRINNELL

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BJBLIOGRAPHY

and including 1923 The titles for each year are arranged alphabetically by authors Under each author (in each year), if he published more than one article during that year, titles are arranged

with that followed in the “first installment.”

Contains original description (pp: xlvi, 205) and plate (74) of adult male Ornismyo anna (= Calypte anna) obtained by Bdtta in California

Birds are given cursory mention (pp 80-82) as observed at San Francisco and Monterey Descriptions arc promised “in the natural history which will shortly appear as a supplement to this voyage: but there are not many which delight, either by the brilliancy or beauty of their plumage, or by the melody of their note.” Most of the species are referred to rather vaguely, but even so, it is not difficult to guess what is meant in each case, especially after consulting Vigors ’ “Zoology of Captain Beechey’s Voyage” (1839)

In this American edition, the birds observed at San Francisco and Monterey are given

man, of Salinas

Orpheus longirostris said (p 55) to come from “Californie”

8 PACIFIC COAST AVIFAUNA No 16

“Mouette B queue fourchue” (= Swallow-tailed Gull) said !p 290) to have been ob-

Cyanurus colliei (p 84) ascribed to California

Contains frequent references to birds, though mostly game species In volume II, pp 134-135, is a description of the work of the California Woodpecker with some rather fanciful comments; and in the same volume, pp 195-197, geese and “tree ducks” (perhaps Wood Ducks) are given more than ordinary notice

“Birds” are treated on pages 117-119, on hearsay; valueless from the standpoint of

l’he “birds of the Farallones” (pp 191-198) are given attention in course of narrative

Contains original descriptions of Dryobatrs [pubescensl homorus (p 65) from “Cali- fornien”, and Dryobates [uiUosus] hyloscopus (p 69) from “San Jo& in Californien”

Quite important from the systematic standpoint For example, the comments on Cabanis’ Picus homorus (p 18), originally named from California, are suggestive Nearly all of the woodpeckers described from California up to 1866 are included

designated (p 670) as a station of occurrence for Oreoscoptes montanus

Describes the egging business During the twenty years previous to 1874 there had

An account of the Farallon Islands, particularly as to the rookeries of Murres

352

also parts of Mexico (as with certain of the earlier writers) are evidently involved

in some cases; so that a number of species are credited erroneously to California as

Based chiefly on specimens and information received from “Mr C A Allen, of Nicasio,

1877 Merriam, C H A Review of the Birds of Connecticut, with Remarks on

Contains some incidental references to California birds, and also treats rather fully

Literary account of the American Dipper as occurring in the Sierras

Running popular account of many species, with frequent reference to California

Chapter IV describes, popularly, the Farallon Islands, including their birds and the egging industry

Full data given for many specimens from California, notable among which are Sandhill Crane from Fort Crook, Shasta County, and Surf-bird from San Francisco

California-taken material considered in critical discussions of species (pp 78, 134, 271)

Briefly annotated list, evidently a companion to Evermann’s Auk article of same year

1912, p 549.)

Quotes previously recorded observations in California

Eight species mentioned, including Heermann Gull which, however, is not to be inferred

as found breeding

Avifauna of California referred to in comparisons (pp 16.17)

In the biographical accounts of a good many species, data secured in California is

Julian, San Diego County, are of special note

Popular description of the Farallon Islands, with a good deal about the traffic in sea- birds’ eggs

To Guadalupe Creek, near San Jose

Narrative accounts, practically all features of which were included by the same author

in subsequent, more formal art’icles

The Californian species of hummingbirds are treated systematically, and there are some

alleni is considered as not separable from S rujus, and the author says that “the

Francisco, the place where they nest, I have killed many specimens in nuptial plumage.” The observation was correct, but the inference was wrong!

paged1 1 P

12 PACIFIC COAST AVIE’rlUNA No 16

and on pp 49-51, hummingbirds and other species collected in the vicinity of San

Food-getting habits

p 247

Habits in vicinity of Pasadena

Relates to nesting

On pp 63-64 the six common species of California are recorded from this state on the

rufus are described, but without statement of definite locality; and I am inclined io think the collector made some mistake in identification in this particular case The old name Selasphorus sasin (Lesson) is brought forward as possibly usable for the Allen Hummingbird

are informal but pleasing references to the more common or conspicuous kinds of Sierran birds

Pseudogryphus californianus on pp 12-13: Its status as quoted from a variety of sources

Good sportsman’s narrative, a good deal of it based upon the author’s experiences in

Popular account of its occurrence in southern California

Written purely from the sportsman’s standpoint and with little regard for accuracy Some of the species referred to or figured are not of California at all; for example

Tetrao californicus Shaw, bestowed long previously upon the California Quail, makes unnecessary any change in the scientific name of the Sierra Grouse As to author- ship, Mr Chas S Fee, Passenger Traffic Manager of the Southern Pacific Railroad, writes me under date December 15, 1919, that he believes the author to have been

Dr Wm B May, who was at the t,ime employed in the Advertising Department of the Southern Pacific Company

1896, pp 31-32

ary, 1896, p 138

Brief popular account

Relates to the Band-tailed Pigeon

Inaccurate popular account

Quail and snipe shooting

Popular running account of several species

A lively literary narrative, dealing with a few of the more conspicuous species Perhaps

pipers; but despite these possible errors, they are small ones in such a mass of vivid

1898 Price, W W The Birds of the Campus < The Sequoia [Stanford Univ.],

A well-composed annotated list of birds observed in the vicinity of Stanford University

A total of 122 species is enumerated

1900

1900, p 400

Notice of Bailey’s article in Science

400-401

Notice of article by R C McGregor

ber, 1900, p 690

Notice of his “Birds of Santa Clara County.”

ington]

Hunted on Tule Lake

Relates to the House Finch!

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA ORNITHOLOGY 15

1901

A chapter (pp 38-41) is entitled “Feeding habits of the fulmars off the coast of southern

April, 1895, pp 100-109

18491, for the island was literally covered with sea-birds, which rose as one mass at

be mentioned was the pelican, or Alcatraz in Spanish, after which the island is named.”

3 text-figs

From Third Street tunnel, in Los Angeles

Literary accounts of “sage cock”, “blue grouse”, mountain quail, valley quail, geese, ducks, Clark nutcracker, “log cock”, California woodpecker, robin, water ouzel, etc

Narrative account, applying not only to the Sierras of California, but to other mountains

of the west as well

For comment, see: 1912, Ogilvie-Grant

XXVlIl

1903

pp 253-254

Brief review of his “Check-list”’ of 1902

1903

1903

1901k

1904

1910.)

Contains frequent critical comment on North American birds, including some exclusively Californian subspecies

10 col pls

For comment, see: 1912, Ogilvie-Grant

1904

Review notice

1924

(“selected by David Starr Jordan,” D C Heath & Co., Boston, 19(M), pp

Popularly written but accurate account of behavior of Valley Quail in the dry season

Formal list of 87 species

California

In discussion of several subspecies, California-taken specimens are referred to (pp 10,

vember 24, 1905, pp 339-369

Contains critical comments on specimens of Western Wood Pewee, Arizona Hooded Oriole and Russet-backed Thrush from California

col pls

For comment, see: 1912, Ogilvie-Grant

1906

In captivity

[ 1906.1 Prime, W Here and There a Bird j Seen and Heard 1 By Wendell Prime

Dates for Western Robin in southern California

With California dates for Russet-backed Thrush

Varied Thrush and “Saint Lucas Robin” in California

Townsend Solitaire and Mountain Bluebird

Vermilion Flycatcher in southern California

Includes important critical comment on the races occurring in California

1907 Finley, W L American Birds [ studied and photographed [ from life 1 by i

photographs

The fine photographs, taken in Oregon and California, constitute the valuable feature

of this book The text is extremely “popular” in style, and concerns the life-histories

of some twenty-five birds of the two states named The title is liable to be mislead- ing as to geographical comprehensiveness (See review by “J A A.” in Auk, xxv, January, 1908, p 93.)

A technical treatise, dealing with chiefly and exclusively Californian species in due course along with the rest Biographical matter mostly quoted

Roadrunner (p 51) known to eat a “field mouse” in California

Contains interesting remarks concerning color changes in captive California Linnets

ber, 1907, pp 137-138

Variation in size of birds’ eggs with latitude; Great Blue Heron’s from California

Chiefly propagandic

1908

389

1908 A[llen]., J A Beal on California Birds in their Relation to the Fruit Indus-

A review

343-399

Many additions and changes of names affect California

Nesting on the Bay marshes near Redwood City

“Part VI,” “Bird Studies in California,” pages 253 to 310 consists of narrative accounts

of the bird-life met w’ith in the vicinity of Piru, Monterey, Los Baiios, and Lower

XI, March, 1909, p 71.)

p 119

Nesting of Western Robin at Eureka

Includes data on the kingbirds

With data on the Hammond, Gray, Western and “St Lucas” flycatchers in California

Including date for Trail1 Flycatcher at Los Angeles

Dates for Western Wood Pewee in California

Relates to the Phoebes

HIRLIOGRRPHY OF CAT,IFORNIA ORNITHOLOGY

Quotation from Venegas

1908, pp 20-21

Relates to vernacular names of Pacific Coast birds

Siskiyou

9 hft ills

Pasadena

Cites account of plume-hunting at Tulare Lake

Various sorts of accidents which befall birds

1908, pp 29-30

5500 feet altitude, Los Angeles County

< Condor, x, January, p 53

1908 G[rinnell]., J [Review of] Volume III of The 1Varbler < Condor, x,

1908, pp 85-86

Nomenclatural

Pertains to ravens along railroads

Treats of the characters and status of Lophortyx catdinensis

p 130

Mention of eight species

Nesting of White Pelican, etc.; eight species mentioned

Includes a list of 139 species of birds, with detailed record of distribution, biographical accounts and critical notes; also a discussion relating to bird population and the

1909, p 700, and by W K Fisher in Condor, XI, March, 1909, p 73.)

An annotated list of 66 species

1908, pp 245-254

Running literary account

1908, p 50

pp 82-86

Fifty-eight species listed

pp 124-129

Eighty-eight species listed

The “Mexican Black Hawk” from San Diego County (Condor, IX, July, 1907, p 110) turns out to be Buteo abbreviatus

Relates to supposed races of Vireo huttoni

Of Los Angeles County

Concerns Zonotrichia albicollis, Cryptoglaux acadica, etc

1908, pp 118-119

In Marin County

p 129

Relates to Audubon Warbler, Blue-fronted Jay, etc

In Sonoma County

eating proclivities presented from many parts of the State

ber, 1908, pp 207-208

1908 Meister, H D [Christmas bird census from] San Diego, Calif < Bird-

An account of the fossil-bearing asphalt beds of Ranch0 La Brea near Los Angeler Shows how birds are engulfed in the tar pools

ber, 1908, pp 236-237

Specimen from Mecca, Riverside County

p 173

Near Los Angeles

7 ills

General popular account, written from sportsman’s standpoint There are some state- ments specifically relating to California which are important from the ornithologist’s standpoint; for example, those (p 770) relative to the occurrence of the Emperor Goose on the Alamitos marshes, Los Angeles County

Passerella iliaca iliaca and Troglodytes aedon parkmani from Monterey County, and Zonotrichia albicollis from Sonoma County

Near Palo Alto

In Eldorado, Alameda, and San Mateo counties

pp 219-222, 2 hft ills

In Santa Cruz Mountains; mention of 27 birds

Annotated list of 29 species

p 91, 1 hft ill

Relates to Varied Thrush

Western Winter Wren, Monterey Hermit Thrush, and Western Golden-crowned Kinglet

Brief, popular, juvenile

1908, p 130

pp 183-184

Near Shandon, San Luis Obispo County

Habits and nesting in the Fresno district

10 PP

1908 Willett, G The Common Tern and Ruddy Turnstone in Southern California

Lists 65 species

Relates to California and Lewis woodpeckers

1909

A review

In spring in Placer County

On Cassin Purple Finch, Varied Thrush, etc

1909, p 174

Relates to Western Martin and Mourning Dove

Including studies from California

294-303

A number of the cases relate directly or exclusively to California

In Kern County

Account of California Condor, based chiefly on Finley’s articles of the preceding year

within six miles of Pasadena

I == 1 “The Feathered World,” I “Canary and Cage-bird Life,” I 9,

Curiously, much information about American and Californian species is quoted from Cooper’s Ornithology, 1870, and from this source alone

morant (p 271, Los Baiios group (p 29), and Klamath Lake group (p 39)

1909 C[bapman]., F M [Review of Kaeding’s Ten-year Index to The Condor]

Relates to Western Robin, Snowy Owl, etc

With dates for Ash-throated Flycatcher in southern California

With dates for Western Warbling Vireo in California

With notes on Hutton, Least, and Gray vireos

With Californian data on Yellow-green Vireo and Cassin Vireo

Includes Californian notes on Chipping and Brewer sparrows

ber, 1909, pp 221-222

Egg-collector’s account; inaccurate and with clear evidence of misidentification of three

of the birds named

Extended popular account

184, 3 hft ills

1909, pp 301-304

Contains information in regard to status of water-birds in northern California

1909, p 69

1909 G[rinnell]., J [Review of Chapman’s] Camps and Cruises of an Ornitholo-

18, 1909, pp 181-244

In the critical notes many comparisons are made with California-taken specimens

Melospiza melodia maxillaris, type from near Suisun, Solano County; Melospiza melodia gouldi Baird (revived name), from “upland marshes” and streams “of Marin and

fauna No 5, Rlay 15, 1909, pp l-166

Contains 1785 titles, being all that had been gathered by the author to the end of the year 1907 “The criterion fop inclusion in this bibliography is the pertaining of the

annotations accompanying each title serve to indicate the nature of the article or book more fully than the title alone would do, to point out particular features of

b Y “J A A ” in Auk, XXVI, 1909, p 326.)

1909 Grinnell, J The small American Crossbill in California < Condor, XI,

From Marin County

1909, pp 128-129

Definite records of occurrence

Specimen from Mount Tamalpais, Marin County

With regard to range or subspecific status of several birds in California

Molothrus ater obscurus recorded from southeastern California

Around San Diego Bay

1909, pp 32-33

Relates to supposed races of Vireo huttoni

211

Refers to Vireo huttoni oberholseri

Twenty-six species listed

From bIarin County

As used by Indians for ornament

From Marin County

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA ORNITHOLOGY

From near San Diego

p 187

Egg-collector’s notes from the Colorado Desert

In Los Angeles

Near Los Angeles

Habits of Bush-tits in Los Angeles

In Pasadena

1909 Pemberton, J R., and Carriger, H W Western Robin at Novato < Con-

In Marin County

Note on early nesting of California Shrike

Angeles County

1909, p 207

Nesting near Sespe

3 hft ills

Formal mention of 31 species from the Santa Cruz Mountains

Concerns shooting season for Mountain Quail, and depredations by dogs on the Farallon Islands

In vicinity of Lake Tahoe

p 175

Observation at Los Angeles; species?

XXVI, October, 1909, pp 440-442

(See Auk, XXVI, July, 1909, p 291.)

1909, p 130

On San Diego Red-winged Blackbird and Mourning Dove in Orange County

Includes list of 57 species

1909, p 162

1909 Shepardson, D I Abnormal Sets < Oologist, XXVI, September, 1909, p

153

Eggs of Pied-billed Grebe, etc., presumably from near Los Angeles

From coast of southern California

,

Report of “Lomita” Wren from Los Angeles County!

1909, p 188

Notes from Catalina Island

1909, pp 47-49

From near San Diego

1909, p 69

In winter

anna taken near Nicasio, Marin County

flrom Lower California

1909 Torrey, B The English Sparrow in Santa Barbara < Condor, XI, Novem- ber, 1909, p 208

Relates to Pigmy Nuthatch, Spotted Owl, California Shrike, etc

Relates to shooting season for Mountain Quail

Formal mention of eight species; runnin, v account of breeding water-birds

Review

Review

September, 1910, p 175.)

1910 [Barnes, R M.] [Notice of Beal’s] Birds of California in Relation to the

Important economic study of the more common species not treated in Part I (1907) Deals with the California quail, woodpecker family, flycatcher family, horned lark,

“J A A.” in Auk, XXVII, October, 1910, p 480.)

A list of 94 species, with annotations particularly as to times of occurrence

Refers to status of Long-billed Curlew in California

p 174

A specimen from Pacific Beach properly referable to Larus delazoarensis

Near Santa Barbara; possibly tire Elegant Tern

125-127

IIabits in vicinity of Santa Barbara

Second Paper < Bird-I,ore, XII, April, 1910, pp 71-73, 1 col pl (frontis-

color on the plate

Including Lawrence Goldfinch

3 figs in text

Includes unimportant mention of a few sea-birds from vicinity of San Francisco

Quotes records of Nelson Sparrow for California

Data from California given with great detail and accuracy These include many hitherto unpublished records of breeding and dates of occurrence The record of Bartramia longicauda (p 65) from Tule Lake is the first for this species in the State

Mrs Bailey for the Arizona Hooded Oriole

Popular account of habits, etc

Thryomarxs bewicki mariner&, type from Nicasio, Marin County; Thryomanes bewicki catalinae, type from Avalon, Santa Catalina Island

In many species comparisons of specimens are made with Californian material

Melospiza melodia caurina at Eureka

1910, pp 175, 177-178

Critical review, including references to some birds of California

Refers to records of Upland Plover from California

Some of Western Mockingbird from near Pasadena

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RIBLIOGRAPI-IY OF CALIFORNZA ORNITI-IOI,OGY 37

Near Santa Barbara

XII, &larch, 1910, pp 63-70, figs 22, 23 (lift.)

Extended critical study

From Ranch0 La Brea

1910 Miller, L H The Condor-like Vultures of Ran&o La Urea < Univ Calif

1910, pp 165-167

Relates to seven birds of southern California

XXJII, June 24, 1910, pp 103-104

Including history of attempts in California

1910, p 80

XII, August, 1910, p 157

Formal mention of eight species

Nesting in Alameda County

p 133

Heally in extreme northwestern Los Angeles County

fig 11 (hft.)

Relates to variation in eggs of California Murre, Brewer Blackbird, etc

figs 25, 26 @ft.)

Narrative, with mention of some 30 species of birds

Karrative; concerns 13 species of birds in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe

On Pyramid Peak, Eldorado County Also general history of the species in California

XII, January, 1910, pp 50-51

Refers to birds seen on some of the Santa Barbara Islands

1910, p 147

In flocks in Orange County

In Santa Clara County: jays presumed to have destroyed an eagle’s egg

1910, p 44

Near San Diego

Reviews of several papers

Specimens of Spotted Owl recorded from Californian localities, with critical comment

Formal mention of 19 species from California

Observations included on several California species

Near Shandon, San Luis Obispo County

Nesting of Prairie Falcon in vicinity of Shandon, San Luis Obispo County

Nesting and eggs in western Kern County

In San Luis Obispo County

1910 M’heeler, Violet Vermilion Flycatcher in Sonoma County, Cal < Bird-

Strong probab’ility of error here

1910, p 46

3n account of the sea-birds met with

XII, September, 1910, p 175

1911

Brief review

Critical review

Review

XXVIII, October, 1911, pp 500-501

Review

p 58

Illiterate comment upon certain papers on California birds

Including detailed data from California

1911 Bowles, J I-I Notes from Santa Barbara < Condor, XIII, January, 1911,

p 35

Concerning Pectoral Sandpiper, etc

Specimen shot April 30, 1911: same as recorded in Condor (XIII, May, 1911, p 109)

Twelve species of birds mentioned

In Santa Clara County; 50 species listed

With brief comments on the forms of Passerc~lus in California

Near Eureka, Humboldt County

p 13s