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 _Tan., 1919 FROM FIELD AND STUDY 41 nest was unusually large, abolt 18 inches top diameter, 3% inches thick; perfectly fiat, no hollow. Elevation about 5000 feet above sea-level. My informant tells me that the Pigeons are. very numerous on Palomar Mountain and he believed that there Were several more pairs nesting. He says the acorn crop is unusually large this year and that the elder and cascara bushes are loaded with berries, on both of which the pigeons largely feed. Probably the plentiful food supply and a warm open fall account for the late nesting. Possibly the fall may be the best time to find them nesting anyway. They are scarce enough in the spring and summer.--C. S. SHARP, Escortdido, California, October 27, 1918. Recent Additions to the California State List of Birds.--There was enumerated as of full standing in the 1915 "Distributional List of the Birds Of California" (Pacific Coast Avifauna number 11) a total of 541 species and subspecies. Up to December 20, 1918, there have been no adequate reasons advanced for removing any one of these 541 forms from regular standing. On the other hand, there has been a total of 23 additional forms given full standing as birds of California on reasonably convincing grounds. These 23 additions are listed below, each with citation to place of proposal. It must be kept in mind that mere changes in names do not figure hero only distinct species or subspecies not included in the main 1915 list under any name whatsoever. 1. Tlalassogeron 'culninatus (Gould). Yellow-nosed Albatross. This name is restored from hypothetical status because the determination of the skull upon which the earlier record was based has been authenticated. (See Loomis, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sot., 4th ser., II, 19i8, pp. 84-85.) 2. Oceanodroa leucorhoa kaedingi Anthony. Kaeding Petrel. (See Miller, Con- dor, xx, 1918, p. 211.) 3. A,nser albifrons gainbell Hartlaub. Tule Goose. (See Swarth and Bryant, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., xvIL 1917, pp. 209-222, pl. 13.). 4. Numenius americanus americanus Bechstein. American Long-billed Curlew. (See Oberholser, Auk, xxxv, 1918, pp. 189-190.) Oberholser ascribes two races of the Long-billed Curlew to California, of which Numenius americanus occidentalis is the more essentially western form and the one to which most previous records probably belong. 5. Astur atricapillus atricapillus (Wilson). Eastern Goshawk. (See Grinnell, Condor, xx, 1917, p. 70.) Doubts have been expressed by L. B. Bishop and by P. A. Taremet as to the existence of two races of goshawk in America; but so far no adequate treatment of the problem has been published. 6. (laucidium gnoma pinicola Nelson. Rocky Mountain Pigmy Owl. (See Grin- nell, Condor, xx, 1918, p. 86.') 7. Dryobates villosus leucothorectis Oberholser. .White-breasted Woodpecker. (See Grinnell, Condor xx, 1918, p. 86.) 8. Selasphorus platycercus (Swainson). Broad-tailed Hummingbird. Restored from hypothetical status. (See Swarth, Condor, xv, 1916, p. 130; Grinnell, Condor, xx, 1918,.p. 87.) 9. Musctvora forficata (Gmelin). Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. (See Swarth, Con- dor, xwL 1915, p. 203.) 10. Aphelocoma californica immanis Grinnell. Interior California Jay. (See Oberholser, Condor, xix, 1917, pp. 94-95; Swarth, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., xvL 1918, pp. 411, 415.) 11. Aphelocoma californica oocleptica Swarth. Northwestern California Jay. (See Swarth, Univ. Calif. Publ. ZooI., xvIL 1918, pp. 411, 414.) 12. Calcarius ornatus (Townsend). Chestnut-collared Longspur. (See Grinnell, Condor, xx, 1918, p. 87.) 13. Passerculus sandwichensis savanna (Wilson). Eastern Savannah Sparrow. (See Clay, Condor, xx, 1917, p. 68.) 14. Passerculus rostratus guttatus Lawrence. San Lucas Marsh Sparrow. (See Brown, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, p. 340.) I confess that I should like to see the whole Passercu- lus category of sparrows thoroughly revised on the basis of the most careful appraise- ment of age, sex and seasonal variation, as well as of geographical variation. 15. Passerella iliaca monoensis Grinnell and Storer. Mono Fox Sparrow. (See Grinnell and Storer, Condor, xx, 1917, pp. 165-166.)