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 24 THE CONDOR VoL XX alfalfa fields of the ranch. No other Indigo Buntings were seen, .but the speci- men collected was to all appearances a breeding bird (testes 10 mm. long), and the duller colored female, if present, might easily have been overlooked through its similarity to the female Lazuli Bunting. In the present paper two species are added to the list of Arizona birds, the Bendlre Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra bendirei) and the Indigo Bunting (Passer- ina cyanea). In this connection it may be of interest to review the present stand- ng of the Arizona bird list. In my "Distributional List of the Birds of Ari- zona" (May 25, 1914), 362 species are included. Two additional species had been recorded in publications issued so shortly before my own paper that they were unavoidably omitted. Ridgway (Birds of North and Middle America, 6, April 8, 191.4, p. 57) added the Red-bellied Woodpecker (Centurus catolinus). In the same volume (p. 695) the Aiken Screech Owl (Otus asio aikeni) is tenta- tively given as from an Arizona locality, but the true status of the specimen cited seems open to doubt. Oberholser, in his "Monograph of the Genus Chordeiles" (U.S. Nat. Mug, Bull. 86, April 6, 1914, p. 50) records the Pacific Nighthawk ( Chordeiles virginianus hesperis ). Shortly after the appearance of my list, Cooke (Auk, 31, July, 1914, p. 403) added seven species: Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica), Ross Snow Goose (Chen rossi), Black Vulture ( Catharista urubu ), Harris Sparrow ( Zonoiricha qu6- r.ula), Sprague Pipit (Anthus spraguei), Western Golden-crowned Kinglet (Reg- ulus sairapa olivaceus ), and Sierra Hermit Thrush (Hylocichla guttata sequo- ensis). Then Gilman, in THE COVOR (vol. 16, Nov., 1914, p. 260) added the Ring-necked Duck (Maril collaris) and Sierra Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus variu5 daggelli). To summarize, we find species added to the Arizona list as follows: Ridgway 1, Oberholser 1, Cooke 7,,Gilman 2, Swarth 2, in all, 13 additions. These added to the former list of 362 give a total of 375 birds for Arizona. Berkeley, California, December 12, 1917. A RETURN TO THE DAKOTA LAKE REGION By FLORENCE MERRIAM BAILEY I. BACK TO THE SWEETWATERS HE LURE of the water fowl ! How can one who has caught only tantaliz- ing glimpses of the beautiful birds on their northern breeding grounds es- cape from it, "when the Red Gods make their medicine again"? To me the call of North Dakota was so strong that after four years, the last of which gave a field season in the mountains of Oregon, I answered the call by return- ing to the lake region of the prairies, prepared to devote the summer to the study of water birds. Realizing full well the limitations of a woman bent on the study of water birds, I went intending to be satisfied with what came my way, hoping that such casual experiences might in some part supplement the more thorough work of less handicapped field students. On the way out, after leaving behind the beautiful spruce and tamarack swamps of northern Minnesota, the sign Manitoba J.unction stirred my blood. How good it would have been to follow the straight northsyard pointing rails