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 128 THE CONDOR VoL XlX bit in the stomach of one specimen, the only mammal recorded. One bird shot by Mr. Decker had been eating a Bob-white Quail. Of the smaller birds the Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycglla garrula) has been the most numerous, these beautiful birds coming in flocks of as many as five thousand. Although not unusual as a migrant east of the Cascades, this is only the third record that I have for them on Puget Sound. The illustration (fig. 47) shows a very small portion of an immense flock that I saw at Tacoma. Berries of the mountain ash, madrofia, hawthorne, and other trees and shrubs constituted their chief food; but one warm day, February 3, 1917, a number Fig. 47. BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS IN TAOOMA, WASHINGT01, JANUARY 14, 1917. were seen hovering and swooping about high above the tree tops. Upon col- lecting one of them the stomach was found to be packed with winged insects, which it had secured with all the ease and grace of a flycatcher. The first to be definitely recorded this season from Tacoma were taken by Vlr. E. A./Cit- chin and Vlr. Stanton Warburton, Jr., of this city, on January 1, 1917. The birds were undoubtedly seen by Vlr. Kitchen a week or ten days earlier, but he would not record them until he had one in hand. Another rare migrant, which also makes the third time I have recorded it