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 194 THE CONDOR VoL. XI many of the feathers still adhered to the dried skin and skeleton. This I labeled and preserved. I have found numerous partially devoured remains of auklets, cor- morants, etc., in the gorges a mile or more inland. These were victims of the small grayish foxes which are abundant upon this island. Pisobia minutilla. Least Sandpiper. During December, 1908, I observed flocks of this species near Northwest Harbor; specimens shot. l*,reunetes mauri. Western Sandpiper. Noted with foregoing species; speci- mens shot. Calidri8 leucophaea. Sanderling. Common winter visitant. Catoptrophorus 8emipalmatu8 inornatus. Western Willet. Seen at Northwest Harbor and Smuggler's Cove; December, 1908. 0xyechu8 vociferu8. Killdeer. Several seen with flock of Sanderlings and Western and Least Sandpipers; one shot. Accipiter velox. Sharp-shinned Hawk. Several seen in the wooded gorges near Mosquito Harbor. One shot but lost in the brush, December, 1908. Asio wilsonJanus. Long-eared Owl. One secured, December, 1908. Three seen in the wooded canyons. Euphagus carolinus. Rusty Blackbird. While making up skins in my tent door, Mosquito Harbor, December, 1908, I was greatly surprised to see a blackbird busily engaged in catching insects in the kelp along the beach. My surprise was doubled when, upon picking up the specimen, I discovered it to be a Rusty Black- bird, in fine plumage. Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus. Western Savannah Sparrow. Several seen, December, 1908. Spizella passerina arizonae. Western Chipping Sparrow. Two specimens col- lected, December, 1908. Spizella atrogularis. Black-chinned Sparrow. One female secured in Decem- ber, 1908. Passerella iliaca unalaschensis. Shumagin Fox Sparrow. One female speci- men secured November 30, 1908. Determined to be this subspecies by Grinnell, but not typical. Pipilo maculatus oregonus. Oregon Towhee. One adult female secured December 4, 1908. This is the southernmost record of this subspecies. Dendroica coronata. Myrtle Warbler. Fairly common winter visitant. Dendroica townsendi. Townsend Warbler. One specimen secured. First observed flycatching in the kelp along the beach, Mosquito Harbor, December, 1908. Sialia mexicana occidentalis. Western Bluebird. While collecting near How- land's Ranch, on the mesa above the Isthmus I was astonisht to see a bluebird rise from a clump of bushes. I secured the specimen which was an adult male in beautiful plumage. Long teach, California. SOME SIERRAN NESTS OF THE BREWER BLACKBIRD By MILTON S. RAY WITH TWO PHOTOS N CERTAIN localities about Lake Tahoe, the Brewer Blackbird (Euphag'us cyanocephalus) is a very common species. I found it in the greatest num- bers at the southern end of the lake, and south, at various points in the low- lands, thru Lake Valley. Most were nesting in groves of small tamarack pines and