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 Sept.,1915 SUMMER RESIDENT LAND BIRDS OF MONTIRE COUNTY 201 Pipilo maculatus falcifer. San Francisco Towhee. Noted on the upper slopes of Santa Lucia Peak and commonly all over the coastal slopes. Is a common resident. Pipilo crissalis crlssalis. California Brown Towbee. Rather common bird through- out the region in both the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. Paaserina amoena. Lazuli Bunting. Noted at Jolon and on the coastal slopes where it was often seen in the dryer brush patches. Jenkins speaks of it as rather more common than we observed it to be. Zamelodia melanocephala capitalis. Pacific Black-headed Grosbeak. Noted on the upper slopes of Santa Lucia Peak and in the pine forests along the summit of the coastal mountains at the head of Big Creek. Jenkins met it commonly in many localities. Passer domesticus. English Sparrow. A common bird around the little town of Jolon, though not noted away from settlements. The following list of the winter visitors noted on the winter trip of Perubet- ton and Anderson gives a further idea of the character of the region. Sphyrapicus varius ruber or daggetti. Red-breasted Sapsucker. Planesticus migratorius propinquus. Western Robin. Ixoreus naevius naevius. Varied Thrush. Regulus calendula grinnelli. Sitka Kinglet. Sialia curucoides. Mountain Bluebird. Anthus rubescens. American Pipit. Bombycilla cedrorum. Cedar Waxwing. Dendroica townsendi. Townsend Warbler. Sayornis sayus. Say Phoebe. Passerculus sandwichensis sandwichensis. Western Savannah Sparrow. Zonotrichia coronata. Golden-crowned Sparrow. Passerella iliaca il'iaca. Fox-colored Sparrow. (See CONDOS, X, p.. 50.) Passerella iliaca meruioides. Yakutat Fox Sparrow. San Francisco, June 6, 1915. FROM FIELD AND STUDY Range of the California Clapper Rail.--While reading recently Mr. Wells W. Cooke's excellent bulletin on the North American Rails (Bull. U.' S. Dept. Agric. no. 128), my attention was attracted to the fact that the range of the California Clapper Rail (Rallus obsoIetus) as given in this bulletin was very much circumscribed and did not include the sloughs radiating from Monterey Bay. It is a well known fact among working ornithologists in this immediate section that Elkhorn Slough, Tembladero Slough, and other salt water marshes tributary to Monterey Bay are rgularly but rather sparingly inhabited by these birds. They are constant residents of the sections that they frequent. My friend, Mr. A. G. Vrooman of Santa Cruz, has a set of eggs taken a few years ago by his son near Elkhorn, Monterey County, --a small siding on the line of the Southern Pacific Railroa Eggs have also been taken near the same place by Mr. Tlomas Hudson of Watsonville. These records extend the range of this Rail some eighty miles to the south and, taken in connection with the Humboldt records of this bird as given by Mr. Tracy I. Storer in the CONDOS for March, 1915, give it a considerably wider range than would seem to be indicated in Mr. Cooke's bulletin.--O. P. SLLMAN, Castroville, Calilornia. B!rd-study Out-of-doors in European Schools.--The Sacramento chamber of Com- merce Cit Planning Committee brought here, Dr. Hegemann, German City Planning Expert. He suggested obtaining a volunteer to study European City Planning, including nature study methods. This citizen brought from Europe some interesting photographs. The one presented herewith (fig. 70) shows the Royal Hunting Lodge in the Copenhagen Deer Park, with blind school students enjoying a nature. study outing. The report states that nature study field excursions in Europe are as far in advance