Western Field Ornithologists and the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC) are again pleased to thank Bushnell, a division of Bausch & Lomb, for its continued generous support in helping to sponsor the publication of these reports.
This report details 412 records from the California Bird Records Committee’s review of older records, of which 276 (67%) were accepted. Both the number of records and the number of contributing observers (268) represent new highs for a Committee report. Our tenth report (Dunn 1988) described our attempt over the past decade to review not only all current reports of rarities in California, but available documentation on all published records of species on our Review List, no matter how long ago the bird occurred. We not only actively solicited written details and photographs from observers, we scoured the literature for additional information and attempted to locate and photograph for Committee files all extant specimens of vagrants to California. These data are now permanently archived. Reported here is our review of 42 specimens, some dating as far back as 1862, and our consideration of other documentation generated from 1935 to 1989.