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 Nov., 1913 IDlNTIFICATION BY CAMIRA 205 At the time these photographs were taken there were eleven of the Lesser Yellowlegs present on our Estero, and they were to be fovnd in varying numbers for about two weeks thereafter. They proved to be rather timorous on all oc- casions but espt:ially so when incited to flight by the Killdeers. which were al- ways bossing them about. In moving to and fro across the Estero they usually paid little attention to their own kind and were as ready to join a bevy of Long- billed Dowitchers or Northern Phalaropes or the solitary Greater Yellowlegs Fig. 58. LESSER YELLOW-LEGS IN COMPAN WITH NORTHERN PHALAROPE (AT LEFT) AND WESTERN SANDPIPER (THE SMALLEST BIRD OF THE THREE); PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE ESTERO NEAR SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, AUGUST 16, 1913. shown herewith, as to hunt up their proper fellows. The duet recorded in this critical picture lasted but a moment, for upon the instant of discovery I swung upon them with the Graflex as one would level a gun and at the "report" of the shutter they were off like rockets. And as they flew they made outcry in two dif- ferent keys of Totanine indignation, the notes of these two species being even more distinct as a measure of difference than the relative size of their bodies. SOME CLrRIOUS NESTING PLACES OF THE ALLEN HUMMING- BIRD ON THE RANCHO SAX GERON'IMO By JOSEPH MAILLIARD WITH ONE PHOTOGRAPH BY THE AUTHOR HE THREE nests of Allen Hummingbird (Sclasphorus alleni) shown in the accompanying photograph are of especial interest on account of the peculiar choice of location, all three being inside of buildings more or less in use. As it was impossible to photograph them in situ, on account of want of light and, in two cases, because of their inaccessibility as far as a camera was con-