Excerpt from Pacific Coast Avifauna The second number (in parenthesis) is that of the same species on the A. O. U. Check-list. The Synonyms are all the other names besides the accepted one by which each species has been known in California literature; the synonyms, therefore, apply only to the species as occurring within this State. The Index contains both the accepted names and the synonyms, so that it should prove Of service in the allocation of names used in the earlier published accounts of California birds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Pacific Coast Avifauna, Vol. 2: A Distributional List of the Birds of California It is important that the limitations of the following treatment of species be clearly understood; too much must not be expected of it, and at the same time its full scope of usefulness should be realized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Pacific Coast Avifauna, Vol. 7: Birds of the Pacific Slope of Southern California In the case of the rarest breeding birds. I have attempted to give all. Or at least several, breeding records. In case of species that breed commonly, I have given the earliest and latest nesting dates that have come to my attention. The dates given for migration and nesting are, I believe, practically correct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Pacific Coast Avifauna, Vol. 1: Birds of the Kotzebue Sound Region, Alaska Pacific Coast Avifauna No. 1 is the first of a series of publications issued by the Cooper Ornithological Club of California for the accommodation of papers meriting special consideration, or whose length prohibits their appearance in the official organ. The publications of the Cooper Ornithological Club consist of two series-The Condor, which is the bi-monthly official organ, and the Pacific Coast Avifauna. Both sets of publications are sent free to honorary members, and to active members in good standing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Pacific Coast Avifauna, Vol. 4: Birds of the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona The Huachuca Mountains lie in the southeastern corner of Arizona, extending northwest and southeast, and with their southern extremity lying just over the Mexican boundary line. The range is a small one, about forty miles long, composed of a single ridge or back bone, which reaches its greatest height at about the middle of the range; where two peaks rise, one to an altitude of about feet, and the other a few hundred feet lower. On the eastern slope a number of broad, well watered canyons extend from the plains quite to the divide of the range, while smaller and shorter ones lie between. The western slope is steeper and more rugged, and the canyons are consequently shorter and not so well watered. The base of the mountains at Miller Canyon, about the center of the range lies at an altitude of about 4500 feet, and in this same canyon, where I did most of my collecting, the distance from the mouth of the canyon to the divide (9000 feet) is about six miles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Pacific Coast Avifauna Number Some Birds of the Fresno District, California, Vol. 9 It is with regret that we note a gradually diminishing number of water fowl returning to us each fall. Doubtless the next few years will see the passing of several species forever, so far as this valley is concerned. While it is prob ably true that gunners are in a large measure responsible for the decrease in numbers of many species, particularly of the ducks and geese, yet a changed environment has been a potent factor in bringing about the present condition. It only requires a day's journey about the valley to convince anyone that conditions are rapidly becoming unsuited for waterfowl. The large grain and stock ranches are being subdivided, reclamation work is steadily reducing the swamp - covered areas, vineyards and orchards are springing up everywhere with a consequent great increase in population. Even the tule ponds that remain are often unsuit able for a nesting place on account of the custom of using them as foraging grounds for bands of hogs. Such birds as rear their young in a very few weeks and are able to make use of any temporary overflow pond are not in immediate danger; but the ducks and geese and others that require concealment during the summer, or large open fields in winter, are surely doomed. The author does not claim to have enumerated in the following pages all of the water birds that occur in the region under consideration, but mention has been made of each species that has been identified and it is hoped that the little introduction that has been given to some of the most beautiful and valuable of our birds will arouse a greater interest in them before many of them are gone forever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Pacific Coast Avifauna Number 15, Vol. 15: Birds Recorded From the Santa Rita Mountains in Southern Arizona The recorded birds from the ranges adjoining the Santa Ritas - the Santa Catalinas and the Huachucas - have long since been published on by Mr. W. E. D. Scott and Mr. H. S. Swarth and others, but comparatively little has been published on the available material from the Santa Rita Mountains which, as Mr. Swarth discovered, have a markedly different - set of breeding birds from that of the Huachucas. Work has been done in the Santa Ritas at various times for fifty years, from 1873 to 1923, on both sides of the range, in almost every month of the year, and it has seemed desirable to bring the results to gether, not only for the convenience of students of distribution and migra tion, but for the benefit of future field students in this interesting Mexican borderland'. The warm valleys on the eastern and southern sides of the mountains may add some winter residents to the foothills not found on the northern and western sides; the migrations may at any time and place afford rewarding surprises; and much may be learned by a study of the life histories of the summer residents, especially of some of the many hummingbirds and rare Mexican species straying across the border. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.