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 44 VoL. XII FIKOlq FIELD AND STUDY The Alaska Longspur in California.--On October 2, 1909, I was hunting rails in the tide marshes of False Bay, San Diego County, California. At the edge of the marsh I saw a sparrow on the Salicornia that 1ookt like a lark finch in moll As this was so unusual a place for that species I fiusht the bird. It rose to some hight but soon came down alighting near the place from which it started. In ght it showed so little white in the tail that I folloxyed it to observe it further, when it flew again, passing over me and alighting in weeds. at the foot of the slope outside the Salicornia, where I shot it. The bird was an adult female in winter plumage, and has been identified by Robert Ridgway as the Alaska Longspur, Calcarius lapponicus alascensis. I believe this is the most southern record for the Pacific Coast.--FRNK SrErHENS. Limonites ruficollis (Pall.) as an American Bird.--In the September number of THE CONDOR I see an interesting record by Mr. John E. Thayer of Limoniles ruficollis (Pall.) breed- ing in Alaska, at Nome. When working over the second part of my Russian work on "The Limicolae of the Russian Empire" (sub-family Tringinae), I went in 1903 to Warszawa, Poland, as some questions could not be properly resolved without examining skins that served the late Dr. L. Taczanowski for his "Faune Ornithologique de la Siberie Orientale". Here in the ornithological museum of Count X. Branicki, especially rich in South American skins, I found, among specimens of L. minutilla (Vieil l.) an adult sandpiper in full winter dress, labelled "Tr. pusills, Wilson. America septen- trionalis." As I had just minutely studied a large number of Tringinae and their allies, including Ereuncles, the identification of this skin presented no difficulties: it was a specimen of Limoniles ruficollis (Pall.). The history of this specimen could not be traced, but as it was bought frmn a dealer, and the first known American specimen of L. ruficollis of course could fetch a much high- er price than so common a bird as Ereuncles pusillus (L.), there could be no possible fraud. Dimensions of this specimen are: wing, 102.5 min.; tail, 43; exposed culmen, 18; tarsus, 19; middle toe with nail, 20. The shaft of the first primary does not differ in coloring from the sev- eral next ones, all being brownish near the bases and at tips, and whitish in pre-apial parts; lower throat quite unstreaked; feet, of course, not webbed, black. This fact was recorded in my work "Litnicolae of the Russian Empire" Pt. II, p. 133, Moskva, 1905.--S. A. BUTURLIN. Additions to Grinnell's List of Birds oi the San Bernardino Mountains.--Porzana carolina. Sofa Rail. I saw one of this species which was shot by a camper at Bear Lake, June 20, 1907. Colunzba fascists. Band-tailed Pigeon. During the first half of June, 1906, I found the Wild Pigeon not rare around Mountain Home and in the Santa Ana Canyon up to about 8000 feet. tsio wilsonJanus. Long-cared Owl. I have a female of this species which I took near Bear Lake at about 7000 feet elevation, June 15, 1907. Tyrannus verticalis. Western Kingbird. I took an adult male of this species at the east end of Bear Lake, June 24, 1907. Baeolophus inornatus murinus. San Diego Titmouse. I saw a pair of this species feeding young near Seven Oaks, June 12, 1906. Chondeslesrammacus strigatus. Western Lark Sparrow. I found a nest of this species containing four young, on the ground near Bear Lake, June 16, 1907. Sialia currucoides. Mountain Bluebird. This species, altho not so common as the Western Bluebird, was breeding commonly in the timber around Bear Lake in June, 1907.--G. WL.TT. The Pectoral Sandpiper at Santa Barbara.--On the morning of September 17, 1909, I found and watcht at my leisure a single bird of this species (PisoMa maculata), feeding in and about some small muddy pools here at Santa Barbara. The next day it was still there, and after some time another one walkt into sight from behind a bunch of reeds. This second bird was more brightly buff on the breast than the first younger bird, I suppose. Number one would not allow number two to remain beside it, but chased it away as often as it approacht, sometimes on the wing, sometimes on foot. Then both birds, once more well separated, resumed their feeding. In the same place were three Northern Phalaropes, a Greater Yellow-legs, a Green Heron, a Spot- ted Sandpiper, and a mixt flock of Western and Least Sandpipers, al!0re or less pestered by a flock of Brewer Blackbirds. The [Pectoral Sandpipers, feeding, bathing, and preening their feathers by turns, allowed me the closest kind of approach, in a perfect light, so that all details were abundantly seen: the greenish legs, the parti-colored bill, the black rump, and the inmac-