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i'."i "" '" RECORDS FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA 9 white markings about the head are present and nearly as sharply defined as in the male, but the dark areas they enclose are brown as in the female, mixt with some black markings.. This black mottling is produced by individual feathers being parti-colored, brown and black, and not by scattered, wholly black feathers. Those areas-which are steel blue in the male are darker, approaching the brown of the female. The scale-like markings of the lower breast and abdomen are sharply defined, but the coloration of these parts is much less intense than in the male bird, the buffy yellow being of a very pale shad, and the red of the abdomen mostly replaced by white. The crest is intermediate in size and shape between those of average males and females. Unfortunately the bird was not sexed. It is apparent- ly an adult, that is in second winter plumage at least, for the primary coverts, which are not molted by the young bird the first fall, are of the adult type. Glaucidium gn0ma gn0ma. Pigmy Owl. Three juveniles (no. 10342 9, no. 10343 $, no. 10344  ) taken from a nest in a dead pine tree in Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mountains,California. These were secured on June 28, 1894, the female parent having been shot the day before (no. 23 collection of H. S. Swarth). The young birds have lost the natal down, except where a few filaments cling to feather tips, and are in the juvenal plumage, but with stubby wings and tail. The body plumage is much as in the adults, but the top of the head is plain drab gray, in markt contrast to the brown dorsum, with a few partly concealed white spots on the anterior portion. There are some slight, apparently sexual, differences observ- able. The two young females are of about the same size, and are appreciably larger than the male. In the former the brown of the upper parts is of a more reddish cast, approaching Vandyke brown, while in the latter it is darker, more nearly Prout brown. The day before the young owls were secured one o the parent birds was seen entering the nest cavity bearing a Chipmunk (Etttmias) in its claws, and the remains of the Chipmunk were found in the stomachs of the young birds. The old bird secured had its stomach filled to distention with the shells of grebe eggs, which it had pickt up in our camp (the nest was located in close proximity to our camp ground), these eggs being a' staple in our larder at the time. This record may be of some interest, as the species appears to be of rare occurrence in summer in the mountains of southern California. It is not included in Mr. Grinnell's recently publisht list of birds of the San Bernardino Mountains. Atthis m0rcomi. Morcom Hummingbird. One of the two specimens on which the description of species was based was in the Judson collection, and is now no. 10299 in the bird collection of this Museum. No additional examples have turned up since the species was first described (see Ridgway, .4zzk xv, 1898, 325), and it seemed worth while to put on record a statement of where this specimen was located. Cynanthus latir0stris. Broad-billed Hummingbird. One specimen, an adult male, from the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona, April 14, 1896 (no. 10286). This bird was taken on the east side of the mountains, near the mouth of Bear Canyon, where the species was fairly common at the time. A nest containing one egg was found the same day. Amm0dramus savannarum bimaculatus. Western Grasshopper Sparrow. One specimen, male, Highland Park, Los Angeles County, California, August 10, 1897 (no. 10089). Amphispiza nevadensis canescens. California Sage Sparrow. Adult female, head of Big Tuhunga Canyon, Los Angeles County, California, August 4, 1895 (no.