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American Ornithologists' Union. 1983. Check-list of North American Birds. Am. Ornithol. Union, Lawrence, KS.

Bent, A. C., and successors. 1919 - 1968. Life histories of North American birds. U.S. Natl. Mus. Bull., reprinted by Dover, New York.

Burridge, B., ed. 1995. Sonoma County Breeding Bird Atlas. Madrone Audubon Soc., Santa Rosa, CA.

Ehrlich, P. R., Dobkin, D. S., and Wheye, D. 1988. The Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds. Simon and Schuster, New York.

Garrett, K., and Dunn, J. 1981. Birds of Southern California: Status and Distribution. Los Angeles Audubon Soc., Los Angeles.

Grinnell, J., and Miller, A. H. 1944. The distribution of the birds of California. Pacific Coast Avifauna 27.

Harrison, C. 1978. A Field Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds. Stephen Greene, Brattleboro, VT.

Harrison, H. H. 1979. A Field Guide to Western Birds' Nests. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

Palmer, R. S., ed. 1962 - 1988. Handbook of North American Birds, vols. 1 - 5. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, CT.

Peterson, R. T., ed. 1992. Western Bird Songs, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

Rea, A. M., and Weaver, K. L. 1990. The taxonomy, distribution, and status of coastal California Cactus Wrens. Western Birds 21:81 - 126.

Roberson, D., and Tenney, C., eds. 1993. Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Monterey County. Monterey Peninsula Audubon Soc., Carmel, CA.

Shuford, W. D. 1993. The Marin County Breeding Bird Atlas. Bushtit Books, Bolinas, CA.

Small, A. 1994. California Birds: Their Status and Distribution. Ibis, Vista, CA.

Unitt, P. 1984. The Birds of San Diego County. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. Memoir 13.

Walton, R. K., and Lawson, R. W. 1990. Western Birding by Ear: A Guide to Bird-Song Identification. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.