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 204 THE CONDOR Vol. XVI In January, 1905, he went to Arizona, spending February and October near Tucson and the months between in the Huachuca Mountains. There he added the Salvin Hummingbird to the avifauna of the United States. The winter saw him again at Witch Creek, and the following spring he joined a party under Ir. r. r. Brown, Jr., on a collecting trip to Guadalupe Island and other islands off Lower California. The hardships of this trip were too great for his enfeebled constitution; but he felt so much better after another summer and fall at Witch Creek that February, 1907, saw him again at Tucson. This time he visited the Santa Rita and Chiricahua Mountains; but the alti- tude, climbing, and lack of comforts told rapidly on his strength, so that by September he was obliged to return to Witch Creek. This was the last time he left California. During the following year he made trips to various parts of this State, collecting more or less extensively in Humboldt, Mendocino, Yolo, Siskiyou, Tehama, Colusa, Solano,/Ylerced, Kern, San Iateo and Ionterey counties. At Sherwood, in /YIendocino County, in 1908, he added the Chestnut-sided Warbler to the birds known to occur in California, and at Eureka the following year, the Alaska Longspur. Soon after he decided to make California his home, he joined the American Orni- thologists' Union and the Cooper Ornithological Club, and enjoyed the friend- ship of those members of the latter that his travels allowed him to meet, and I think'he left friends wherever he went. He was a delightful companion. No one could meet him without appreciating his absolute sincerity, or become acquainted with him without liking him. His letters showed he had much inter- est in the Cooper Club, but diffidence prevented his contributing frequently to the pages of THE CONDOR. He felt his true vocation lay in collecting and pre- paring beautiful specimens, not in writing about them. Occasionally notes by him may be found in THE CONDOR, as enumerated at the end of this article, but that is all. Thus the years passed in an almost constant. struggle against ill-health, and in loneliness tempered by his interest in his work. Early in November, 1913, he left Witch Creek on what proved to be his last trip, and, after a couple of months at Colusa, reached Pacific Grove in January. There, on the 17th of February, 1914, he added the Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) to the list of California birds, and only nine days later, his long contest with sick- ness and loneliness ended, passed into a "sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking." The following articles appeared from the pen of Henry W. Marsden.' Aerial Battle of Red-tailed Hawks, Buteo borealis calurus. CONDOR, VII, 1905, p. 53. Feeding Habits of the Lewis Woodpecker. CONDOR, IX, 1907, p. 27. Chestnut-sided Warbler at Sherwood, Mendocino County, California. CoDo, xI, 1909, p. 64. Alaska Longspur at Gunther's Island, Eureka, California. CoDo, xii* 1910, p. 110. New Haven, Connecticut, June 23, I914. A NOTES ON A COLONY OF TRI-COLORED REDWINGS By JOSEPH MAILLIARD LTHOUGH some years ago I described a breeding colony of Tri-colored Redwings (Agelaius tricolor) located near an artesian well in iKadera County, California, I have been so much interested in another colony