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 Jan., 1916 FROM FIELD AND STUDY 35 White-winged Scorer in Klamath County, Oregon.--On November 11, 1915, a duck hunter who had been hunting down the river below town brought in a White-winged Scorer (Oicemia ceglanci) which I skinned and saved. I doubt very much if this bird has ever been recorded from this locality before. My brother claims to have killed one several years ago while hunting ducks down the river. These are the only ones I have ever heard of being taken in this loeality.mH,umY TELFORD, Klamath Falls, Oregon. Marbled Godwit in Colorado.--There are not many definite records 'of Limosa 'eoa in Colorado. A specimen in the State University Museum, taken northeast of Boulder by James Cowie, September 18, 1915, adds this species to the Boulder County list.m JvNvs HE.OERSO., Uiversit o! oloralo, Boullcr, oloralo. The Pigeon Goillemot Neeting In San Francleco.--Having read with interest Mr. Joseph Mallliard's record of the Seaup Duck breeding within the confines of San Fran- cisco (Como, vol. xvn, p. 235) and which, by the way, I should like to confirm, having observed, in early July of 1913, a female Altha affinis, with three young, swimming about Stowe Lake, the following may also be worthy of note. During the summer of 1911, my attention was called by a friend, t6 a species of "duck" nesting in an inaccessible cleft on the high, rocky bluffs that border the ocean at the entrance to the Golden Gate. Investigation disclosed the fact that a pair of Pigeon Guillemots (epphus columba), had tenanted the cavity, and were, at that date, the first of July, busily engaged in carring food to their young. About June 1 of the following year, 1912, Mr. H. W. Carrider and the writer, having noted several birds in the vicinity, proceeded with aid of a rope to examine the nesting locality of the previous year. The cranny, a very deep and well adapted site, proved, however, to be unoccupied. Some five days later, on June 5, the writer returned alone, and in climbing around a precipitous promontory, flushed a Guillemot from a cave near the water's edge. The nest contained a set of two eggs, almost fresh, which are now in my collection. Further search disclosed the occupancy of another hole above an unsealable ledge, and still another pair apparently breeding on a small detached island, the last, however, being unestablished. Since then, close watch has been kept, but for some reason. probably the disturbing of their secluded homes and the collecting of two specimens. the birds have entirely absented themselves from this locality, and during the past three years, have never again been seen.---GEoRaE W. SCUSSnER, an Francisco, alifornia. The Coloration of 9gs.--Several inquiries have appeared lately in the various ornithological journals as to the time and manner in which the pigments are deposited upon the egg-shell. What is perhaps the most thorough treatise upon this subject will be found in Chapter xi of "A History of Birds", by W. P. Pycraft. The text is much too long to be quoted here in its entirety, but perhaps the following extract may be of value to those who have not access to the above-named volume. Mr. Pycraft says: "We may assume that . . . this pigment is deposited by the walls of the oviduct, and it would seem that in many cases this deposition takes place in two different re- gions of the duct, first on the formation of the earlier layers of the shell, where little more than a slight'staining is effected, and later when the shell is nearly complete; in most cases there is no coloration until the egg has passed some way down the ovlduct. It would then appear that the ground colour is first deposited, and aier this the pecu- liar markings cf the particular egg. When these are formed while the egg is at rest a sharply defined spot is the result; but it commonly happens that the deposit of pigment takes place while the egg is in motion, smears and blotches being the result; and it would further appear that the egg in its passage rotates, inasmuch as these streaks and lines show a decided spiral arrangement. These various evidences of the process of coloration can be well seen in eggs of many birds of prey, as well as those of. . . the Guillemots, for example."--D. I. SEPXROSO., LOS Angeles, alifornia. A Record of the Forbueh Sparrow in the State of Waehington.--So far as I have been able to ascertain there is no definite reord of this 'form (Melospiza lincolni striata) as occurring in Washington. It is of interest, therefore, to state that I had the good fortune to collect a typical female of this subspecies near. Tacoma on November 11, 1915. The bird was identified for me through the kindn. ess of Mr. Joseph Grinnell. I feel positive that there was at least one other in the same locality, a large field grown over with thistles and other weeds, but they were so shy that it was only by a lucky chance that I secured the one here recorded.J. HOOPER BOWLES, Tacoma, Waskigton.