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 226 THE CONDOR Vol. XVIII ggs, advanced incubation, and one with three fresh eggs. All were about two feet up in wire grass and made of coarse flat weed stems and lined with fine light-colored grasses, loosely put together. The name "Salt Marsh" Yellowthroat given this species appears rathsr misleading in that one might infer it inhabited the salt marshes exclusively, while on the contrary Carriger and I have found it most abundant along fresh-water lakes and streams and in. wet meadow land. In fact we have no spring or summer record of it in the salt marshes of San Mateo County, while we fouhd it a rather common nester in certain localities about fresh water a mile or so west of them. Chase Littlejohn writes: "This yellow- throat is found commonly about the marsh here (Redwood City, San Mateo County) during the fall, and less commonly during the winter. In the spring a few are about but soon disappear. They do not nest on the salt marsh, but at one place where the ground is springy and covered with willows they nest among 'the weeds and rules that are half fresh and half salt water plants, as very high tides reach quite a distance into the wil- lows where they grow at the very edge of the salt marsh. All other nesting sites that know of are some distance inland about. moist or swampy ground." Our single exception to this is Carriger's finding a'nest of this bird with four eggs in a salt marsh north of San Rafael, April 12, 1914. This, however, was high ground and scarcely subj$ct to over'How. In view of the fact that a bird is seldom given a vernadu- lar term referring to the locality it inhabits unless it be its summer home, Carriger and I suggest that the term "San Francisco", referring to the San Francisco Bay region which it inhabits, be used instead of "Salt Marsh". 95. Antbus rubescens. American Pipit. Carriger and I have noted. this bird in the late spring. 96. Mimus polyglottos leucopterus. Western Mockingbird. A Mockingbird remained in the gardeni about San Jose Avenue and 25th Street, in the Mission district, during the late spring in 1906. It was possibly a released cage bird. (See CODOR, viii, p. 76.) 97. Thryomanes bewicki spilurus. Vigors. Wren. Rather common, but nests found have been few, April 15, 1911, at Lake Merced, Carrigor located a nest in a hole in a sand bank with five eggs in an advanced stage of incubation. Jesse Klapp also notes finding a nest in Golden Gate Park. 98. Telmatodytes palustris paludicola. Tule Wren. Rather common at Merced Lakes. On April 30, 1911, Cariger and I o. pened two nests, one holding three fresh eggs and the other five eggs with incubation advanced. On July 23 of the same year we noted another nest with three eggs, incubation advanced; also a nest with four eggs in like condition, July 4, 1912. 99. Penthestes rulescons bariowl. . Santa Cmiz Chickadee. While the Barlow Chickadee is quite a common resident, neither Carrigor nor I have located a nest north of the San Mateo County line. D. udley S. De Groot writes of three nests found in Golden Gate Park as follows: "A nest found April 7, 1916, which contained six badly incubated eggs lying in a thick bed of rabbit fur, was located eight feet up in a hole in the side of a log cabin. Another was in a small cavity fifteen feet up in a eucalyptus and contained young almost ready to fly. The third nest was remarkable for its situation, being placed in a pipe leaning against an out-building. The nest ' was about one and a half feet down the pipe, which was only three inches in diameter, and contained, in very cramped quarters, young birds about half grown." Jesse Klapp also notes it as nesting in the park: 100. Planesticus mlgratorlus propinquus. Western Robin. Dudley S. De Groot found a nest of the Robin in Golden Gate Park fifteen feet up in a patch of bushy young bamboos. It was the usual structure of grasses and mud mixed with considerable string. When found, May 21, 1916, it Contained two full:fledged young. Jesse Klapp is, however, I am quite sure, entitled to the credit of being the fi_rst to find this bird nesting in our County. I noted at least 3000 Robins one spring evening of the present year on the grassy lawns in the Park Buffalo Paddock near the beach. The following notes refer to birds previously recorded by me in the list published in the C0D0a of March, 1906. 1. Fullca americana. American Coot. Carrigor and I can record some unusually late nests. July 4, 1911, one egg, pippod; July 23, 1911, four nests, three with seven eggs and one with eight, all apparently fresh and incomplete. These were all at Lake Merced.