Pacific Coast Avifauna, Выпуски 7-8

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Cooper Ornithological Society, 1912
 

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Стр. 69 - ... pursuance of your request, I submit the following report of the results of my investigations in the office of the Secretary of the Senate and in the room of the Senate Judiciary Committee, relevant to the authorship of the Sherman law of July 2, 1890. That statute was drawn in the Judiciary Committee in the latter part of March and the first part of April, 1890. It was based on the bill which Senator Sherman introduced as Senate Bill 1, early in December, 1899, but Senator Sherman took no part...
Стр. 66 - ... much less deeply rufescent, and under parts of body white instead of yellowish ; similar also to that of 0. a. actia but upper parts much more broadly streaked with dusky. Young similar to that of 0. a. actia but darker and less ochraceous, and under parts tinged with yellow. (The characters of their form are most pronounced in specimens from the more northern islands of San Miguel, Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz, those from the more southern islands of San Clemente, Santa Barbara, San Nicolas, and...
Стр. 77 - Harbor the birds frequent wharves and breakwaters, and even hop fearlessly about the decks of vessels, feeding on crumbs and flies. Although observed from August to late in April, this sparrow apparently disappears...
Стр. 99 - ... Flat, 6000 feet, August 16, 1905. These were doubtless migrants. Wilsonia pusilla chryseola Ridgway. Golden Pileolated Warbler. All of the thirteen specimens secured in the San Bernardino mountains, both breeding birds and migrants, are referable to this race. Golden pileolated warblers were common in willow thickets at the head of the South Fork of the Santa Ana, 8000 to 8500 feet elevation, June 27 to 30, 1905. Males were then in full song, and from their behavior we had no doubt that there...
Стр. 23 - Estero from January 21 to May 1, 1908; and from December 6. 1908, to March 16, 1909. A notable movement of this species was witnessed by Prof.
Стр. 64 - During the latter part of May and the first part of June, in the case of nearly all prominent shadetree insects, one or two thorough sprayings must be made.
Стр. 103 - ... nest proper was six inches wide in the direction permitted by the space, and only one and three-fourths across the narrow way.
Стр. 60 - This species arrives in the vicinity of Pasadena from the middle of April to the first week in May and the majority disappear by the last of July. Extreme records at Pasadena are April 3 (1895), and September 3 (1895). By the first of July when the vegetation of the foothills becomes dry and flowers cease to bloom, the hummingbirds are found in countless thousands at higher elevations (6000 to 8500 feet) where summer is just dawning
Стр. 5 - I adhere closely to the nomenclature employed in the latest edition of the American Ornithologists' Union Check-List of North American Birds, published in 1910.
Стр. 5 - San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, Santa Barbara, San Nicolas, Santa Catalina, San Clemente, and Los Coronados, which lie in Mexican waters.

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