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 158 THE CONDOR Vol. XIV TABLE SHOWING RECORDED OCCURRENCES OF THE CALIFORNIA PINE GROSBEAK RECORDED BY LOCALITy AID REl%ARKS James G. Cooper Pass, Sierra Nev- ada, Sept. * .... [esident on high Sierra Nev. Baird, Brewer and Ridgway Summit Central Pac. R. R. Pass, 7000 ft. Robert Ridgway Soda Springs, Placer Co. Lyman Belding Soda Springs, Sept. .... Blood's, Calaveras Co., Jul 16, 1880 .... Summit, C. P.. R. R. fPlacer C( August 11, 1882, and between June 23 and Sept., 1885 A. K. Fisher Head San Joaquin River July 30, 1891 William W. Price Pyramid Peak, Angust 5,189; .... Silve.r Lake, Amador Co., June 27, 1895 .... Pyramid Peak, July and August, 1895 and 1896 Chester Barlow Forni Meadow, E1 Dorado Co., June 9, 1900 Milton S. Ray' Pyramid Peak Plateau, E1 Dorado Co., June 9,1910 " " Pyramid Peak, June 10,1910 altitude.9000 ft. .... Lake of the Woods, E1 Dot ado o., July 1, 1909 PUBLICATION Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., IV, p. 8 Orn. Calif., I, p. 151 Hist. N. Am. Birds, I, p. 453 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, III, p. 66 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus.,I, p. 412 Land Birds Pac. Dist., p. 131 N. Am. Fauna, no. 7, p. 79 Auk, xIv, p. 184 .... p. 185 Condor, It, p. 107 Condor, xtI, p. 149 Cpndor xIv, p. 13 data in ooper's handwriting as follows. Mus. no. 4134: "liniola [ Summit Johnson's Pass I Sept. 22-63 J. O. 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: "Pinicola Canadensis [Summit, Placer Co., CaLl July 26th, '70 J.'G. C." (Th other side o.f the. label gives measurements and color of iris, bill and feet.)  writes.as follows (1897): "This apparently very distinct Pinicdla is an 'inhabitant of the higher Sierra Nevada Mountains of Central California. It is stridt.Iy an alpine species; I have never seen it blow 7000 feet and I have taken it near the timber-line. It is peculiar to the belt of tamarack pine (Pinus murrayana),'and the beautiful red alpine fir (Abies magniNca),, and most of'the.spedrmens fallen were in groves oi this latter tre& According to my observati0ni this bird is uncommon, for, during several vacations apent i.n 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 mag'niiica, when a grayish bird flew 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, Myadestes townsendii, I might in the twilight have passed it for that species had I not caught a glimpse of its large and heavy bill. I sectired it, and to my sur- prise found it an adult female Pinicola, the first I had ever seen fro,m  California. I saw no more that summer though I spent over a month in the h'igh'er 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 f'mal which was evidently its mate. No
 * Txo skins taken by J. G. Cooper are now in the California Museum of Vertebrate o1ogy. These bear