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Excerpt from Pacific Coast Avifauna, Vol. 7: Birds of the Pacific Slope of Southern California In February. 1910. at the request of the Southern Division of the Cooper Ornithological Club. I began the compilation of the paper presented herewith. The first idea of the Club was to revise Grinnell's Birds of the Pacific Slope of Los Angeles County, published in 1898 by the Pasadena Academy of Sciences. It was finally decided, however, to extend the boundaries of the territory covered by that list so as to take in the Pacific slope of southern California from, and including, Santa Barbara Comity, to the Mexican line, and from the summit of the mountains to the ocean, also including all the islands of the Santa Barbara group. This territory comprises all of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, Los Angeles County south and west from the Liebre Mountains. Sierra Pelona and Sierra San Gabriel, San Bernardino County south and west front the Sierra Madre and San Bernardino ranges, all of Orange County, Riverside County west front the San Jacinto Range, and San Diego County west from the Volcan and Cuyamaca ranges; also the eight islands of the Santa Barbara group, namely San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, Santa Barbara, San Nicolas, Santa Catalina and San Clemente. In some eases I have deemed it advisable to refer to records outside the limits as described a love in order to show certain connecting features in distribution or migration. By vote of the Southern Division of the Club, it was recommended that 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. In some instances I have been led to differ from the decisions of the A. O. U. Committee, as given in the Check-List, in regard to the distribution of certain species and subspecies, in such cases I have given reasons for my contrary opinion. I have endeavored to treat conservatively all instances of unusual occurrence recorded without absolute evidence of their authenticity. Some of these that have appeared to me to be most unlikely, and probably the result of mis-identification. I have omitted entirely, and others whose occurrence in this locality, although appearing doubtful, is supported by a certain amount of apparently authentic evidence. I have assigned to the hypothetical list. In the case of the rarest breeding birds, I have attempted to give all, or at least several, breeding records. In ease 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.