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 205 THE CONDOR VoL. XI Two Records from Eastern Kansas.--While Mr. Chas. D. Bunker and myself were col- lecting birds on Washington Creek, eight miles southwest of Lawrence, Kansas, November 7, 1908, we secured a single specimen of the Lewis Woodpecker (Asyndesmus lewisi). The bird was in an oak tree near an old cabin when Mr. Bunker first saw it. He did not recognize it and shot it, wounding it. The bird flew across a field to the edge of some timber, as I came around the cabin, and I knew it at once. We followed and after a short search discovered the bird, motion- less, on the side of a tree, and secured it. It was an adult female in full plumage. The length in the flesh was 266 min. On January 9, 1909, we took an adult female Western Robin (Planestitus migratoriuspro- pinquus) from a tree in a hedge, two miles south of the University at Lawrence, Kansas. It was a cold foggy day, and several other robins of the eastern variety were taken, this one however being alone. Both of these birds were mounted and are now in the collection of the Kansas State Universi- ty Museum at Lawrence.--ArEx WEt,oRE, Denver, Colorado. Some Unrecorded Species from Los Coronados Islands, Mexico.--This spring (April 3 to 10, 1909) while collecting on the Coronados, off San Diego, with J. B. Dixon, we secured the following birds new to the Islands. Circus hudsonius. Marsh Hawk. One female taken April 6. : Aluco pratincola. Barn Owl. One was flusht April 9 from a crevice in the cliffs. . Asio wilsonJanus. Long-eared Owl. Dixon flusht one from a low bush on North Island, April 7. Speotyto cunicularia ;typostea. Burrowing Owl. Oue female taken April 8. Selasphorus alleni. Allen Hummingbird. Very common all the week. Tyrannus vociferans. Cassin Kingbird. A pair stayed about camp for four days. Icierus bulloc]i. Bullock Oriole. One male taken; others seen. Dendroica auduboni. Audubon Warbler. Very common. Catherpes me;cicanus consperss. Canyon Wren. One taken.--A. vA RoSSE, Pasadena, California. The English Sparrow in Santa Barbara.--I returned to Santa Barbara a few days ago, after an absence of two months, and find today (July 13) a .flock of English Sparrows (Passer domesticus) in and about the garden of the Potter Hotel. I have never before seen them here.- BRat)yogi) ToggE,Santa Barbara, California. Notes on the Nesting of the Western Martin.--A colony of Western Martins (Progn subis hesperia) have made their summer home under the caves of the Hotel Maryland of this city, each year for the past four seasons. The birds are regular summer visitants to the moun- tains six miles back of Pasadena where they may be seen most any day in the early summer months; but they are uncommon i the surrounding country outside of the colony mentioned. This colony is'on a principal thorofare, at a hight of 60 feet above the street, and is inaccessible. The nests are built in the holes in the concrete trimmings under the broad extended caves. The year of their arrival brought 0nly a few birds, but each succeeding summer the numbers have incfeast until uow the colony numbers about thirty pairs. As my observations have b. een entire- ly with the western form of this species I do not know whether this is a coluparatively large or small colony, but it is of interest here from its unusual situation.--PxgEE I. OSVg, Pasa- dena, California. The Knot in Southern Calffornia.While duck-hunting at'Anaheim Landing, Orange County, California, October 3, 1909, I noticed a good-sized sandpiper flying up one of the sloughs immediately behind a small flock of Western Willets. The former was secured and has since proved to be a male Tringa canutus, kindly identified by Mr. J Grinnell.--CEStER C. LAMB, Los Anzeles, California,