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 188 THE CONDOR Vol. XX specimens are not to be found in any one place and therefore it may be convenient to recapitulate them all briefly in the order in which the birds were collected. CALIFORI'IA (1) 1868. San Francisco market. Several specimens. Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., Iv, 1868, p. 9. (2) 1882, February 17. San Francisco market. Specimen no. 542 in the Bryant collection. W. E. Bryant, Forest and Stream, xxvL June 24, 1886, p. 426. (3) 1884, winter. Eureka, Humboldt County. Specimen shot by Charles Fiebig and now in the Eureka Public Library. Townend, Auk, n, 1886, p. 491; Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, p. 184. (4) 1884. Rio Vista, Solano County. Two specimens [in collection of F. H. Holmes, obtained in San Francisco market Jsnuary 25 and February, 1884]. Belding MS, quoted by Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avifauna, no. 11, 1915, p. 33. (5) 1890, November 24. San Francisco Bay. Specimen no. 124,776, U.S. Nat. Museum, collected by C. H. Townsend. (6) 1904, February 16. Bixby, Los Angeles County. Specimen shot by C. !L ears on the Pasadena Duck Club preserve and formerly owned by Joseph Welsh of Pasa- dena. Now in the Grinnell collection. Grinnell, Auk, xx, 1904, p. 383. (7) 1905, February 5. Bixby, Los Angeles County. Specimen shot by Robert Er- ekine Ross on the same marsh in which the Welsh specimen was obtained. Ross, Forest and Stream, ,xv, Feb. 25, 1905, p. 153. (8) 19057 Eureka. Specimen in collection of Dr. F. H. Ottmer of Eureka. F.J. Smith MS, quoted by Grinnell, Bryant and Storer, "Game Birds Ca'lif". (in press), p. 112. (9) 1908, December 5. Merced County. Specimen in California Academy of Sci- ences, collected by Rollo H. Beck. Joe. Mailliard, Condor, xx, May, 1918, p. 122. (10) 1911, October 20. Arcata Bay, Humboldt County. Specimen shot by Alden Trott. F.J. Smith MS, quoted by Grinnell, Bryant and Storer, "Game Birds Calif". (in press), p. 112. (11) 1917, December 19. Norman, Glenn County. Specimen belonging to the Zindo Gun Club, shot by Samuel Pond of San Francisco, and now in the office of Drs. C. H. Bell and E. Pitres of that city. Joe. Mailliard, Condor, xx, May, 1918, p. 122. W A SIIllgGTON' (1) 1915, January 12. Nisqually Flats, Thurston County. Specimen shot by L. W. Brehm of Tacoma. Bowles, Condor, xw, Mar., 1915, p. 102; ibid., xwn, May, 1916, p. 129. (2) 1916, January 15. Nisqually Flats. Specimen shot by Mr. Ditz of South Ta- coma and now in the Bowles collection, Tacoma. Bowles, Condor, xvm, May, 1916, p. 129. (3) 1917, March 31. Nisqually Flats. Specimen collected by Stanton Warbur- ton, Jr., and now in the Warburton collection, Tacoma. Warburton, Condor, xx, July, 1917, p. 142. (4) 1918, January 13. Nisqually Flats. Two aduit males brought in to Edwards Bros. of Tacoma for mounting. Bowles, Condor, xx, Mar., 1918, p. 93. The California records include three birds from Humboldt Bay, three from San Francisco Bay, two from Bixby, Los Angeles County, and one each from three interior. localities: Merced County; Rio Vista, Solano County; and Norman, Glenn County. So ar as shown by the dates which have been recorded, the birds were shot duri.ng the four months from October 20 to February 17. Several of them are now preserved in public museums: The Bryant specimen should be in the Oakland Museum, the Fiebig specimen is in the Public Library at Eureka, the Townsend specimen is in the National Museum, and the Beck specimen in the museum of the California Academy of Sciences. The five Washington specimens were all obtained on the Nisqually Flats, near Olympia, and were collected between January 12 and March 31. At least two are in the collection of J. H. Bowles and one is in that of Stanton Warburton, Jr. All the birds enumerated in the above lists were males. The difficulty of distin- guishing the females of Mareca penelope and Mareca americana probably explains why more females of the former species are not recognized in the field and saved. Coopera- tion on the part of sportsmen will doubtless bring to light other specimens and show that the European Widgeon occurs more frequently than is. generally .supposed. So far as practicable the present location of all recorded specimens should be ascertained and as many as possible of them should be placed in public museums where they may be proper- ly and permanently preserved.--T. S. PALMER, Washington, D.C., June 2, 1918.