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 168 THE CONDOR Vol. XIII bird was reported to be fluttering about a large front room, recently vacated, in one of- the light. keeper's houses. A party of us repaired to the spot, and one of the ladies, by a quick motion, seized the frightened bird in midair, and graciously presented it to jue,--an adult male Ovenbird in prime feather. Another bird xvas seen outside the house half an hour later, and it haunted the general vicinity of the keepers' quarters during the reuminder of our stay, five days. The specimen taken was prepared by Mr. J. Rowley, and is now in the Academy collection. Black-throated Green Warbler. Dendroica virens. On the evening of May 29th I secured, at all too close range, a female of this species. It had settled momentarily upon the ground in front of the head keeper's house. Unfortunately, most of its head was shot off by a bunched charge, but "the renmins" are now in the Academy collection to attest te validity of the record. Another specimen, also a female, was seen in company with such other migrants as Redstart, Magnolia Warbler, etc., on the afternoon of June lst; but no attempt was made to secure iL--W. LEON I),wsoN. Swallow Notes from lrreano County, California.--Mr. Grinnell's record in T}E CON- DOR for May-June of a pair of Barn Swallows observed near Fresno on March 15 last, has caused me to put the following notes on record. On the morning of March 19, 1905 the writer ol)served a single Barn Swallow (Hirundo ery- lhrogaster) in company with several Tree Swallows circling about a poml some six miles north of Fresno. As it was the first one seen that spring it seemed probable that the bird had reached this place from some point to the north of us. My suspicions were partly confirmed during the fall of the same year when the Barn Swallows apparently departed toward the north. September 25 large nmubers of them passed over at frequent intervals all day. They certainly appeared to be migrating but were travelling in a course directly opposite to that which they would be ex- pected to pursue at that time of year. The following spring I had an excellent opportunity to watch for the first nilgrant, and was not greatly surprised on the morning of March 19, upon hear- ing a cheerful twittering overhead, to see a Barn Swallow travelling southward at a considerable height. Is it possible that this swallow has two routes by which it enters this part of the San Joaquin Valley ? Possibly in certain seasons the usual southern way is undesirable from some cause, anti the birds enter the valley by a northern route. It would be interesting to learn from observers living north of Fresno, the dates upon which this swallow was first observed for the spring of 1906. In lCresno County the Barn Swallows nest, ahnost without exception, under bridges, fasten- ing their nests to the stringers over the water. The smaller bridges over all the irrigation ditches shelter from one to three or four pairs, xvhile the species swarms by hundreds urnlet the large ones that span some of the sloughs. The Tree Swallow ([ridoprocne bicolor) is present in small numbers throughout the winter, but each year during January and February, I have observed a southward movement on the part of this species. Sometimes a single bird passes over but often two or three are seen together. The Tree Swallow has been found nesting in sycmnores along the San Joaquin river aml in pine stubs at Shaver Lake. On March 28, 1908 the writer found a pair of Violet-green Swallows ( Tachycineta thalassina lepida) busily engaged in carrying nesting material into a cavity in a sycamore stub near the river about nine miles north of Fresno. Several other pairs were discussing the fitness of other cavities. This, I think, is rather early nesting. My earliest record for the arrival of the Cliff Swallow (]9etrochelidon lunifrons) is March 14 (1903 and 1904).. A nesting colony was examined April 29, 1910 in which a number of nests held good sized young birds.--Jo} G. TYnExz. Man-o'-War Birds in Southern California.--On June 13, 1911, two immature Man-o'-War Birds (t-eata aquila), were caught with hook and line, by a fisherman, at the ocean end of the pleasure pier, Long Beach, California. The birds have the white heads, which, according to Coues Key, is the plumage of two year old .birds of this species. They are now, (June 14, 1911), on exhibition in B. A. Orant's "Animal Exhibit", under the Long Beach pleasure pier, and are doing well on a diet of fish.--C. B. LINTON.