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 1.52 TIIE CONDOR Vol. XIII nessed a flight of what were presumably Sooty Shearwaters (-P. griseus) vhich took about five hours in passing. In April, at the lagoons to which I referred above, there were numerous Pied- billed Grebes ( tod/lymbus pod/celSs), Green-winged Teal ( IVellion carolinen.4e), Shovellets (.S)alula clylSeala), Pintails (Da_#la acula), Lesser Seaups ( arila a2n[s), and Ruddies (m'snalura./'amat'censt's); also the ever-present Coot (P)th'ca amercana), while a few Brant (t3ranla nig'ricans) lingered in the bay. I have it on the best of authority that the latter are present in incredible numbers during the winter months. The Western Gull (tai?ts occltet.llalt's) is common here, but at my later visit Z. arus heermanni was just as numerous, mainly in immature plumage but many adults also. Royal Terns ($?erna maxima) were everywhere and the natives told me that they breed in tte locality. Sever{l Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) were seen, and at least two Snowy Egrets (g'retla candidissima). One of these exhibited considerable curiosity at our whale-boat as we were sailing down the bay, - and circled about it five times at no greater distance than forty feet before it was satisfied. This individual was in beautiful breeding plumage, with very long "aigrettes". Light-looted Rails (lqallus leviles) were common in the marshes, as I conld tell from their tracks, and on April 27 I found a set of seven fresh eggs. Some smaller form of rail-was also present but I was unable to tell to what species i.t be- longed. Foot-prints only were seen. Four Black-necked Stilts (/-[/maulopus mexicanus) were busy in the shallow waters of the lagoons at the last-mentioned date, Killdeer (Oxyec/tus z,oc//rus) were breeding, and in July a number of West- ern Wiltet (Calo]SlroIShortts s. inoritalus) were investigating the sandy beaches. In both the months that I was present there was a large flock of Long-billed Cur- lew (?Vumenius americanus)numbering some two hundred birds I should say, and the residents informed me that they had remained throughout the spring. Snowy Plovers (Aegialt'lis niz, osa) were fairly swarming, and a few of both the Black and Frazar Oystercatchers (lriraemalolSus bachmani and IY._/)-azar[) were to be found on the rocks at the mouth of the bay. Several Mourning Doves(Zenaidura m. carolinenss), Turkey Vultures (Calh- artes a. selSlenlrionah's), Burrowing Owls (%)Seotylo c. hyi5og'aea), Roadrunners ( (eococcyx cah/brnianus), Rufous Hummingbirds (bklaslShorus rufus), Ravens ( Corvtts c. sinualus), Western Meadowlarks ($'lurnella neg'lecli) and one King- fisher (Ceryle alcyon) wereseen, and Tricolored Blackbirds (Ag'elaius lrz'color) haunted the rules. Two pairs of Arkansas Kingbirds (7'yra#nus verlicalis) were nesting in the trees of the village and kept up a continual clatter. From what I heard, Dwarf Cowbirds (J45dolhrus a. obscurus) had evidently been common during the winter, but I saw only two of them, and glimpses were had of a few Scott Orioles (]clerus lSarisorttm) in some scraggy trees on the plain. A fact which impressed me as being strange was the total absence of House Finches, nor did I meet them in the mountains and foothills east of Sau Quentin in the winter of 1908. This is not the limit of their range, however, as true Car5o- dacus m. fronlahk has frequently been taken between the country south of here and Lat. 28 N. Belding Sparrows (asserculus belding/) were abundant in the marshes, fre- quenting especially the neighborhood of the pier. Gambel Sparrows (onotricha I. gainbelt') were still present at my first visit, and I was surprised to find a single male Black-chinned Sparrow ($)Sizella atrog'ularis) so close to the coast. In April,