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 126 THE CONDOR Vol. XXI Large Set of gga of the Canada Goose.--While on a collecting trip through north-' ern California and southern Oregon in June and July, 1918, Summer Lake, Oregon, was visited June 21. Out in the lake about a quarter of a mile from the west shore is a small, low island, perhaps 300 feet long, 50 feet wide, rook at one end, sandy in most places, and with a maximum height above the water of only six or seven feet. There being no boat available, we decided to wade out to the island, if possible, through the alkali water and the very soft and very foul-smelling mud. Fortunately the water was only about three feet deep at its worst and the mud was at its worst where the water was at its best, albeit both were very, very bad everywhere and all the time. We found the little island taken over almost or quite enti?ely by a colony of 150 to 200 pairs of California Gulls anti the nesting season was at its height. The nests were thickly placed among the small lava rocks and more scatteringly over the sandy area. Many of the nests contained young of various sizes, from those just hatched to lusty youngsters that scrambled away and into the water at our near approach. Many nests contained eggs, usually two or three in number, and in all stages of incubation excepting that stage which the oologist r6gards as most satisfactory. Two or three Caspian Terns were seen as we approached the islet but no nest was found. The only nest not a Gull's that we found was one of a Canada Goose. It was between two considerable chunks of lava on the end of 'the islet where the Gulls were least numerous. The eggs were 10 in number; an stole/ Evidently the old Goose (and a real goose she was, to build in a place like that! ) had selected the site, built the nest, and laid her eggs; then the Gulls came. And when 300 to 400 noisy, pestiferous gulls go to house-keeping (such as it is) in your small back yard, it is time to vacate. At least so thought old Mrs. Branta canalcrisis. In the language of the street, "she beat it"; for which she has my sincere thanks, else I would not now possess the biggest set of Canada Goose eggs ever, if we may believe the records. The usual set is much fewer. Samuels , says "about six"; Ridgway (Birds of Illinois), four to seven; Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- way, five or six, rarely nine; Coues's Key, five to nine; usually five or six; Mrs. Bailey, six to [or] seven; and Grinnell, Bryant, and Storer, five to seven. One of my oological friends suggests that two different birds laid in the same nest, an explanation which I utterly reject, because I can not believe thee were four geese that were "such a goose" as to attempt to raise a family under such surroundings. The measurements of these ten eggs in inches are as follows: 3.43x2.26; 3.33x2.35; 3.35x2.30; 3.48x2.36; 3.45x2.38; 3.40x2.45; 3.25x2.27; 3.41x2.28; 3.40x2.25; and 3.25x 2.25. Except for a few slight stains they are all beautiful specimens; but the blowin' of them was no joke]--BARTON WARlIEN EVERMANN, Museum, California Acagemy o! ci- enCes, an Francisco, February 10, 1919. The Whistling 8wan in Arizona.--About the middle of last December, there ap- peared on Howard Lake, a few miles from Williams, Arizona, a flock of eleven swans. }I'oward Lake is more of a mud pond than anything else; and in a very dry season there would be very little, if any, water there, I imagine. However, there has been plenty of water the last few years, so much so that perch were planted and I understand they have grown and increased. Two of these swans were killed, one moirated and the other saved as a skin, and are still at Williams, where I saw the mounted one last week..I sent the measurements and particulars to my friend Ruthyen Deane, and he confirms what I was practically sure of, that it is the Whistling Swan (Olor columbianus). Is not this occurrence in Arizona, a rare one? It seems to me these birds must have been away off of their course.--W. B. MESSliON, aginaw, MicAigan, MarcA , 1919. Some Notes from 8an Diego County, California.--Whistling Swan (Olo columb- anus). Though Stephens, in his "List of Birds of San Diego County" (Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., vol 3, no. 2, February 15, 1919), page 8, records the Whistling Swan as a rare winter visitant, I have seen no definite published records for that county. The fol- lowing, therefore, may be of interest. In late December, 1917, O. W. Howard noted a flock of about thirty swans on lakes at Warner Springs, San Diego County. In Novem- ber, 1918, while on a isit to this locality with Mr. Howard, I received from Mr. H. C. Gordon, of San Diego, considerable information on the birds of the region. Mr. Gordon