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 30 THE CONDOR VoL XVIII ized that P. plunbeus might possibly occur there, as it does a little farther east, in Nevada (Taylor's Birds, etc., of Northern Humboldt County, Nevada, p. 419). Regulus satrapa olivaceus. Western Golden-crowned Kinglet. A family group encountered July 3, 1912, at an altitude of ?500 feet. on the east slope of the Warner Range, and the species repeatedly seen thereafter near Eagle Peak. Not previously recorded from these mountains. Santa Barbara, California, December 8, I915. FROM FIELD AND STUDY House Finch or Llnnet?Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis has long been known in the A. O. U. Check-List as the House Finch. It is generally known by that name over its whole vast range except in a portion of California. Yet it is rather persistently called Linnet (or, worse still, California Linnet) by a group of Californians of an ornithological turn of mind, who frequently succeed in getting one or the other of those terms into so excellent a magazine as THE Coos. Is it impertinent to ask why? "Linnet" is certainly not distinctive. It means nothing. It is applied to different species in different parts of the world, and by the vast majority of ornithologists of the world would, if standing by itself without the technical name, be taken to mean a very different species which does not occur where the House Finch is found. Surely no one can defend the term "California Linnet" as applied to this bird. The temporarily successful effort a few years ago to have the latter adopted in the Check-List savored of an attempt to boost California real estate by loisting upon this wide-spread species , geographic name representing only a short, narrow strip along the extreme edge of its range. Some of us who frequently visit that great state and view its wealth and natural resources, enjoying its surf-bathing, climate, scenery and other advantages, admire the loyalty and boosting spirit of its citizens, but feel that it is hardly necessary to thus misrepresent the range of a bird species in ornithological nomenclature, in order to sustain California's .splendid material progress. Also we are constrained to believe that the few who are seeking to do so do not really represent the ornithologists of the state. I hope I may not be considered presumptuous in inviting the few seceders to move back into the United States and conform to the custom of the country, in the inter- ests of nomenclatural uniformtty.--JuNius HENDERSON, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. Shearwaters on San Francisco Bay.On the afternoon of September 8, 1915, while crossing the bay from San Francisco to Sausalito at 4:30 o'clock, a small movement of Shearwaters, presumably Puffinus gf'tseus, was observed. The birds were working on an ebb tide from the upper bay toward the Golden Gate, their line of flight being be- tween Alcatraz and Angel islands. All crossed the bow of the boat, but when about mid-way between Alcatraz and the Heads, seemingly whirled back towards the former. Similar but larger movements have been noted on several occasions during the last fifteen years.--JOH W. MAILLIAIID, an Francisco, eptember I4, I915. A Golden-crowned Sparrow Lost on Mount Shasta.--On August 22, 1915, I found a Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotichia coronata) frozen in the snow at an altitude of 14,350 feet on Mount Shasta. The specimen was forwarded. for verification of identity to the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, where it is preserved as an alcoholic (no. 25531 of the bird collection). Since the bird is apparently in nuptial plumage, it had probably met its fate some time during the preceding spring migration period.-- W. J. CHAMpBERLIN, Weed, California. Late Nesting of the Arkansas Goldflnch.On October 22, 1915, wlile pruning some apple trees near my house, I was surprised to find a Goldfinch (Astragalinus psaltria hesperophilus) sitting on three eggs in a nest about eight feet above the ground in one of the apple trees. The young hatched on the 24th of October. I looked at the nest on November 4 and they were still in the nest; but on the 8th they had left, probably taken by a cat, though they may have flown by that time.--J. S. ArtLETO,, irni, Ventura County, California.