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 28 THE CONDOR Vol. XVI es long, and that Short-'tailed' Albatrosses breed on islands off the Coast of Alas- ka, and that the Western Savannah Sparr9w is "a slightly paler form of the pre- ceding" (said preceding being, according to the book, Pooecetes gramineus coi- finis), and show us pale pink Crossbills and Jenny Wren Dippers and California Jays without any blue in their plumage, all in the name of daily bread, why, I say, it is time for. censorship. It is a poor compliment to our Western intelligence that this sort of slush is offered to our public, and offered too in the name of a reputable publisher, D'ou- bleday, Page & Co., forsooth. Are we so provincial, are we so unsophisticated, are we so jejune that any old thing will go with us ? Perhaps we do deserve our fate. The -undiminished sales of a certain one volume flexible known as "The Birds o California" would seem to point that way. We would best munch our .biscuit meekly and retire 'to our kennel to doze until such time as some one shall arise among us with wit enough and conscience enough and courage to prepare an accurate pocket guide to western birds. We have asked for bread and they have given us, if not a stone, at least a raw compound of meal and gravel. A SECOND LIST OF THE BIRD OF THE BERKELEY CAMPUS By JOSEPH GRINNELL Contribution from the University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology N JANUARY 28, I9I I, the writer of the present paper published*a nomi- nal list of the "Birds of the Berkeley Campus", together with a brief state- ment of the avifaunal condi.tidns in the area under consideration. , For two reasons it.has seemed advisable to publish a "Second List"*. First, because t.he early exhaustion of the $oo-separate edition of the first list evidenced a local need for a folder of this sort, both in the University and in the public schools of Berkeley and Oakland; and second, because since the appearance of the 9  I list many additional species have been seen on the ,Campus and much de- tailed information has been gathered, not only by the writer himself, but also by several well-qualified observers,. who kindly placed their notes at his disposal. The University of California Campus, the area considered in this paper, com- prises about 53 acres rising from an elevation of 2o0 feet at its. western edge in the city of Berkeley to. a height of 3oo feet at its eastern boundary near the crest of the Berkeley hills. Cutting down from these hills are several ravines or canyons. Heading in the larger of these ravines, Strawberry Creek courses in a general westerly direction through the whole length of the Campus. Within its 53 acres the Campus furnishes shelter to birds of widely varying associational preferences. The hills from a distance look bare and untimbered save for interrupted tracts of newly-planted pine and eucalyptus. But these really well-grassed hill-slopes constitute a favored haunt of a distinct category of birds, of which the Meadowlark is a characteristic example. The chaparral, or brush, is of two distinct types: one, of which the commonest plant is a dark-foliaged, woody composite (Baccharis), is wide-spread on some of the upper slopes, and the other, consisting of snow-berry, hazel and brake, on north-facing and shaded slopes. In the upper part of Strawberry Creek basin are several clumps of madrofias, while  An edition of 1000 reprints of the present paper is issued.
 * Reprint from the Univergity of Califorlia Chronicle, vol. xxx, no. 1, 4 pages (unnumbered).