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 July, 1913 THE ALL-DAY TEST AT SANTA BARBARA 157 California YellowWarbler 6 Willow Goldfinch 20 Rufous-crowned Sparrow 1 Tule Yellow-throat 0 Green-backed Goldfinch 80 Western Chipping Spar- Golden Pileolated Warbler 3 Lawrence Goldfinch 2 row 3 Western Tanager x California Purple Finch 2 San Diego Song Sparrow 20 Brewer Blackbird 80 California Linnet 500 Spurred Towhee 6 Arizona Hooded Oriole 2 Western Lark Sparrow 22 Anthony Brown Towhee 40 Tricolored - Redwing 1000 Western Savanna Sparrow 1 Lazuli Bunting 20 San Diego Redwing 100 Belding Marsh Sparrow 20 Pacific Black-headed Yellow-headed Blackbird 4 Western Grasshopper Grosbeak 40 Western Meadowlark 8 Sparrow 1 English Sparrow 4 It will be readily seen that the most significant feature of the day's horizon is the almost total lack oi migrants save for the. Limicola. The Io8 birds seen fall into six categories. (I) Migrating Lirnicohv: all save Snowy Plover and Killdeer. (2) Other migrants: Bonaparte Gulls, Forster Terns, and Western Tanagers alone. (3) Breeding birds: constituting the bulk of the horizon, prob- ably 80 species. (4) Left-overs: immature, decrepit and non-breeding birds, such as the two $coters, Glaucous and Herring Gulls, Red-breasted Merganser, West- ern Grebe, Pintail and, possibly, Shovellets. (5) Waifs: isolated migrants lost from the main host or wandering aimlessly for lack of company, typified by Snowy Heron and Northern Phalarope. '(6) Visitors from distant breeding haunts, as the two Cormorants and California Brown Pelican. The following species were observed within the general region traversed above during the week preceding the test; viz., April 28-May 4. Loon Pacific Loon Anthony Green Heron Green-winged Teal Prairie Falcon White-tailed Kite Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper Hawk Light-looted Rail Wilson Phalarope (A. B. Howell) Long-billed Dowitcher (A. B. H.) Knot Baird Sandpiper Wandering Tattler (A. B. H.) Surf-bird (A. B. H.) Paraaitic Jaeger California Grill Road-runner Barn Owl The following species not observed on May 5 were at that time within the area traversed. Bittern California Pigmy Owl Burrowing Owl Dusky Poorwill Rufous Hummingbird Vaux Swift Willow Woodpecker Wright Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher American Pipit Tule Wren Dotted Canyon Wren Blue-fronted Jay Calaveras Warbler Black-throated Gray Warb- ler almost certainly residetat Common Rock Wren Western Gnatcatcher This gives, on a very conservative basis, a grand total of 44 species pres- ent within eight days, a modest number which I  venture to predict will be re- corded eventually in a single day from some California point. As contrasted with the abundance of last year, I need only mention that upon the 29th of April, 912, we had twelve species of warblers upon our little acre at Los Colibris at one time; whereas the list of May 5, 93, Contains only four warblers. More- over, there were eight species of warblers still present on the 7th of May last year. The world's record "horizon" of I44 species was taken on the i3th day. of May, 9o7, by Professor Lynds Jones and two other observers near Oberlin, Ohio. They traversed a range of country absolutely more extensive (using the trolley to effect a change of base of thirty miles), as well as ecologically more varied. The Oberlin list boasts twenty-nine species of warblers and thirty water- and shore-birds, as compared With our four warblers .and thirty-eight water- and shore-birds. Bearing the warbler bonus in mind, therefore, and the not great