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 52 THE CONDOR [ VoL. V Clivicola riparia. Bank Swallow. All three of the above swallows found breeding near lake. Geothlypis trichas occidentalis. Western Yellowthroat. They are quite common in the tules. 0roscoptes montanus. Sage Thrasher. Found quite commonly in sage brush on east side. Cistothorus palustris plesius. Western Marsh Wren. A very busy little wren in the rules. Status of the Bicolored Blackbird in Southern California. BY FRANK S. DAGGETT. I T is safe to say that during the past ten years hundreds of eggs of the hi-colored blackbird (lgelaius gubernator) have been sent from Southern California, and all our collections contained skins of what was supposed to represent that bird. When the interest in ornithology was first started in California and which culminated in the formation of the Cooper Ornithological Club in x893, the princi- pal authorities warranted the assumption that ubernator occurred in Southern California. Coues' Key gave the distribution as "Pacific Coast U.S. and British Columbia" while the A. O. U. Check-List states, "Pacific Coast district from West- ern Washington, south to Lower California," etc. With this for a basis we all looked forgubernator, and it was found, as we supposed, associated with lgelaius pheniceus of those days. The bird so selected was an immature-looking male, with buff lesser wing coverts, and black middle coverts, answering to the written descriptions ofgubernalor. There is more or less uncertainty as to the status of all our blackbirds, and in I896 Mr. Grinnell made up a lot of adults and irama- tures, for transmission to Washington for identification, among them some belong- 'ing to the writer. Upon their return we found, among the iramatures, several markedgubernator. This was long before Mr. Ridgway's revision of the black- birds, but it confirmed our earlier decision and gubernator received a place in the List of Birds of the Pacific Slope of Los Angeles County with the following observa- tion by Mr. Grinnell: "Several specimens of this form have been taken at Bixby and E1 Monte, and it may breed in this County, as it does commonly to the north- ward; but I have no reliable data, altho many eggs purporting to be of this bird have been sent from the County." About a year ago Mr. Grinnell, in order to settle the question, sent me a pair ofgubernator, in breeding plumage, collected by him in a locality of wall known occnrrence. The comparison at once threw out the birds which we had known as gubernator, and further investigation convinces me that they are what is now known as 1. p. neutralis Ridgway. I have examined all the available collections in Southern California, with the same results, and I can find no one here who can produce actual specimens of gzubernator taken in the southern counties of California. Unless some one produces specimens, it is safe to say that the bird does not occur here. Certainly the eggs sent out so freely from this part of the state, in years gone by, asgubernator, can safely be put down as of Mr. Ridgway's recent- ly described 1. p. neutralis, for most of them were taken in well known colonies, where none but neutralis are found today.