. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Western Mockingbird Range of Mimus polyglottos.—United States south into Mexico and the West Indies. Range of .1/. p. Icucopteriis.—Southwestern United States and Mexico. Breeds in Lower and Upper Sonoran zones from northwestern Nebraska, southern Wyoming, and central California (casually northwestern Nevada, Sunkist, July 28, 1918) south to Cape San Lucas and Oaxaca. Accidental on Guadalupe Island. Distribution in California.—Resident chiefly
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Western Mockingbird Range of Mimus polyglottos.—United States south into Mexico and the West Indies. Range of .1/. p. Icucopteriis.—Southwestern United States and Mexico. Breeds in Lower and Upper Sonoran zones from northwestern Nebraska, southern Wyoming, and central California (casually northwestern Nevada, Sunkist, July 28, 1918) south to Cape San Lucas and Oaxaca. Accidental on Guadalupe Island. Distribution in California.—Resident chiefly in the Lower Sonoran zone; wandering into lower reaches of Upper Sonoran in fall and winter, notably in the counties tributary to San Francisco Bay. (One record also for Humboldt County, Dec. 1922, Ferndale.) An abundant breeder in the San Diegan district north to Santa Barbara and, less commonly, on the southeastern deserts north to Owens Valley (Lone Pine, June 18, 1911), formerly to the head of that valley (Fisher, N. Am. Fauna, no. 7, p. 127); also, sparingly, in the San Joaquin-Sacramento Valley, north to Marysville and Chico, and in the warmer valleys of the south central coast system, Santa Maria, San Juan (in San Luis Obispo Count}'). Salinas, San Benito, etc. Resi- dent on Santa Cruz, Catalina, and San Clemente Islands, and has occurred on Anacapa. Authorities.—Gambel (Mimus poly glottis), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. iii., 1846, p. 114 (Santa Barbara); Mearns, Auk, vol. 1902, p. 70 (the Mockingbird of the west separated as Mimus polyglottos leucopterus (Vigors); Beal, U. S. Dept. Agric, Biol. Surv. Bull., no. 30, 1907, p. 52 (food); Grinnell, Auk, vol. xxviii., 1911. p. 293, map (distr. in Calif.); Dickey, Condor, vol. xxiv., 1922, p. 153 (song). IF GALLI-CURCI were to war- ble in your own dooryard day in and day out, year in and year out, the chances are you would come to feel yourself disqualified as a critic of coloratura singing. As I write the
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