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 May, 1913 SOME FURTHER NOTES FROM THE TAHOE REGION 115 were identical .with the normal species. The set measures I.o 7 x -75, I.o6 75, .8 x .59, .75 x .59. A trip was taken on June  to Derington's, on the summit near t'hillips' Station. It was late in the afternoon when I reached the lonely .little cabin about' which the ground still lay hidden beneath deep snow. On the following day a nest of the Western Robin (?lanesticus migratorius propinquus) and a nest of the Sierra Junco (Junco oreganus thurberi) were found. That of the robin was noteworthy only in that it contained a runt egg. The set of three eggs meas- ures t.t8 x .78, t. I6 x .8, .97 x .75. The nest of the Junco was placed under a a little overhanging shelf of earth made by a. snow-brook and composed of weed stems and grass and lined with horse and other mammal hair. It held four slightly incubated eggs. So well concealed was it that it would have remained undiscovered had not the sitting bird fluttered off. The fol16wing morning two more nests of the Western Robin were found, one with three fresh eggs, the other with the unusual c6rnplement o.f live, well along in incubation. The nests were placed in pine and fir trees and deep snow lay beneath them. Near the cabin I observed a Western Tanager (?iranga htdo- viciana) engaged in building a nest forty feet up in a tall lodgepole pine. As the ornithological prospect, owing to th.e lateness of the season, did not appear favor- able, however, I availed myself of an opportunity to ride back to Bijou, which I reached early in the afternoon. On June 5 along the lake shore near Bijou, a nest of the Spotted Sand- piper (.4ctitis maculari.ts) was found with three eggs well advanced in incuba- tion. The nest was placed among wire grass, and was a slight depression linet with grasses and stems. Mr. Richard Duttke found another nest of this bird in a like situation (luring the first week of July, of which he secured a photograph. Two nests of particular interest, being the first of this species I had _found on the floor of the valley, were noted on June 9- These were of the Sierra .Hermit Thrush (Hylocichla guttara sequoiensi.s), and both were placed thickets of lodgepole pine saplings eleven feet up. One held four eggs about to hatch, the other four half grown young. These were the first nests of this bird I have found below 70o0 feet altitude. O'n June 2 preparations were made for the trip to Washoe Lake, Nevada, which has already .been described in a previous number of Ti; Co)OR. NOTES FROM BUENA VISTA LAKE AND FORT TEJON By CHESTER LAMB and A. BRAZIER HOWELL N JUNE 6, 912, we left Los Angeles by automobile for a visit to Buena Vista Lake, situated in Kern County, and for old Fort Tejon, in the Tejon Mountains. Considerable interest is attached to the latter place, because it is the type locality of several of our birds, and because of the extensive work done there by Cooper, Xantus and others. Shortly after noon on the 7th we arrived at the lake. The intervening time will not be itemized as it was filled in mostly with tire trouble, owing to our having failed to carry proper supplies of the appropriate kind. The lake, some thirty miles southwest of Bakersfield, we finally reached after having been mis- directed half a dozen times. On the east sithe it is flanked by a high levee, and