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 Sept, 1919 BIRD NOTES PRONE OREGON /%ND CALIFORNIA 207 One bird August 3, another August 9, two the day following, and one August 20. Also seen occasionally in wooded districts between Harney Valley and Klamath Falls. Regulus calendula calendula. Ruby-crowned Kinglet Common in spring at both Clear and Malheur lakes. Remained in the latter locality as late as May 15. Myadestes townsendh Townsend Solitaire. One bird seen in junipers near Clear Lake April 5, and several more in same locality April 7. Planestlcus mlgratorlus proplnquus. Western Robin. Common breeding bird in most sections visited, though rather rare around Malheur Lake in midsummer. Sialla mexlcana occidentalis. Western Bluebird. Fairly common at Clear Lake. Slalia currucoldes. Mountain Bluebird. Common'in timbered sections throughout most of the country traversed. Occasional in brush country around Malheur Lake. Los Angeles, Calgfornia, December 21, 1918. THE WILSON SNIPE NESTING IN SOUTHElaN CALIFOlNIA By EDWARD WALL N the May issue of TE CONDOR I note an ax'ticle by Dr. Barton Warren Ever- mann entitled "Nesting of the Wilson Snipe in California". In this article are given all the published records of the nesting of the Snipe in this state. Some two or three years ago I was surprised when Mr. J. 1. Pemberton in- formed me that the printed records shoved no eggs of the Wilson Snipe to have been taken in this state, and at that time I prepared at his request a short statement which I intended to send to THE CONDOR; but after discussing the matter with other collectors of twenty-five or thirty years ago concluded that it was hardly worth while and that Mr. Pemberton was not, perhaps, so well informed as he might be on the subject. Now, however, I am convinced that for some reason mention of the Wilson Snipe as a regular nesting bird in Cali- fornia has been omitted from the published records of earlier days and so am appending herewith the original manuscript that I intended to send in. My friend, Mr. J. I. Pemberton, informs me that a set of eggs of Wilson Snipe (Gallinago delicata) that I gave him some time since has caused quite a commotion in the oological world because of the fact that they were collected as far south as San Bernardino. I can hardly believe this but he insists that he can find no collector of today who has ever heard of the bird nesting at such a southerly point and both he and Mr. W. L. Dawson are of the opinion that it constitutes a new record However this may be with the collectors of today, I am certain that the old time collectors of a quarter of a century ago will find nothing to be aston- ished at in the record, for I personally know of several who hav collected not only one set but many sets in the days when they were actively at wrk in the field. Personally, I have done little or no egg collecting ince along in the early nineties, and there was a period of some ten years after that when I did not keep in very close touch with the ornithological or oological world and its news. Even today, although I have again started collecting an occasional skin and keeping a more or less complete record of birds and their movements, I have not been able to catch up with the progress that has been made during he interim. From 1887 to 1893 I was actively engaged in egg-