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 THE CONDOR A Magazine of %stzrn Ornithology Published Bi-Monthly by the Cooper Ornitholo1cal Club ]ntered as second-class matter February, 1908, at the iost-office at os Angeles (I-Io!!ywood Station). California. under Act of Conress of March 3, 1879. Issued from the Office of THE OZaDOH, care 1. D. Dietz, First National Bank. I-Iollywoocl. California SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Dollar and Fifty Cents per Year in the United States. payable in advance. Thirty Cents the single copy. Oho Dollar nd Sevonty-five Cents per Year in all other countries in the International Postal Union. COOPER CLUB DUES Two Dollars er year for members residing in the United States. Two Dollars nd Twenty-five Cents in all other countries. !!anmcripts for publication, and Books and Papers for Review, should be sent to the Editor, J. Grinnell, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, university of California, Berkeley, California. Cl!ms for missing or imperfect numbers should be made of the Business Manager, as addressed below, within thtrty days of date f issue. Cooper Club Dues, Subscriptions to The Condor, and Exchmes, should be ent to the Business Manager. For the Purchmo of Jck Volumes of The Condor or of the Peo;flc Coast Avifmmf series, apply to the Business Manager. Address W. Lee Chambers, Business Manager, agle Rock, Los Angeles County, California. CONTENTS Notes on the Nesting of the Mountain Plover (with eight photos) ...... . C. Bradbury 157 Frank Stephensan Autobiography (with one photo) .............................. F. Stehe.s 164 Evidence that Many Birds Remain Mated for Life ............................... . C. /'illard 167 A Return to the Dakota Lake Region (coniinued) ...... .F]orece Merri Bi]ey 10 Some Oceanic Birds from off the Coast of Washington and Vancouver Island(with one photo) .......................................................... tnton /'rron, Jr. 178 Description of a New Subspecies of Cyanolaemus clenenciae _ Iararry C. Oberholser 181 Some Summer Birds of Alert Bay, British Columbi ................... t'. 1. Taverner 183 FROM FIELD AND STUDY Second Occurrence of Wilson Plover in California ................. /. A. Incersoll 187 Heermann Gull with Vhite Primary Coverts ..................... P. /. Taverner 187 Pacific Coast Records of the European lVidgeo .......................... i/. S. Palmer 187 An Albino Magpie ................................................................................ /. D. )oi$ 189 New Records for Some of the Islands off the Coast of Southern California ............................................................................................ Joseph lYailliard 189 Extension of ICuown Distribution in Some Northern California Birds ............................................................................................... JoselSh Grinnell 190 Long Waits for Sets of Winter Wrens ................................... John M. Davis 190 Large Set of Eggs of the XVestern Red-tailed Hawk .......... Lawrence Peygon 191 Supposed New Record for Central Kansas ..................................... l. J./(irn 191 Bird Notes from Admiralty Island, Southeastern Alask____.1. E./-tasselborg 191 A Late Nest of the Swainson Hawk ................................................ l. D. l)ut?ois 191 Notes from Southern California ....................................................... L. E. Iyman 192 When the Thrnshes Cease from Singing ................................ Joselbh lrailliard 192 A New Bird for Santa Catalina Island .......................................... I4'. C. Bryanl 193 Late Snowy Owl Dates .......................................... Stanton Fe'arburton, Jr. 193 The Virginia 'arbler in California ........................................... J. Grinnell 193 EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS ............................................................. 194 MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS ................................................................ 19