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 Ju., I9o31 THE CONDOR Io3 Icterus cucullatus nels0ni. Arizona Hooded Oriole. Rather common at Big Sandy Creek and Bill Williams River; not noted elsewhere. Icterus bul10cki. Bullock Oriole. Not common..Young seen out of the nest at Needles the middle of June. Seen at Big Sandy Creek, Bill Williams River and along the Colorado near Ehrenberg. Carp0dacus mexicanus fr0ntalis. House Finch. More or less common every- where. Very destructive to fruit in the orchard at Beale Spring. Astragalinus psaltria. Arkansas Goldfinch. Found only at Big Sandy Creek, where they were not common. Ch0ndestes grammacus strgatus. Western I, ark Sparrow. Saw one at Cibolo, Arizona. Z0n0trichia leuc0phrys. White-crowned Sparrow. Saw migrants in Morongo Pass and at Twenty-nine Palms. Spizella atr0gularis. Black-chinned Sparrow. Saw a female carrying a larva of some kind in her bill, On Providence Mountains, about June first. She came quite close to me and acted as if her family were near. A month later I saw sev- eral at about the same altitude (6o00 feet) on the Hualapai Mountains. These ap- peared to be parents and young of the year. Junc0 0reganus thurberi. Thurber Junco. Providence Mountains, rare. No juncos were seen elsewhere. I looked carefully in the Hualapai Mountains, but found none and am at a loss to understand why none of the genus occurred there, as I had expected to find caniceps or dorsalis. Amphispiza bilineata desertic01a. Desert Sparrow. Rather coxnmon at base of Providence Mountains. Seen at Little Meadows, Beale Spring and Big Sandy Creek. lIel0spiza cinerea fallax. Desert Song Sparrow. A few were seen near Needles, also along Big Sandy Creek, and about lagoons near Ehrenberg. Pipil0 maculatus megal0nyx. Spurred Towhee. Common on the Hualapai Mountains. Pipil0 fuscus mes01eucus. Canyon Towhee. A few were seen in rocky gul- ches and rough hills at Little Meadows and Beale Spring. Pipil0 fuscus senicula. Anthony Towbee. Seen in Morongo Pass on the way out. Pipil0 aberti. Abert Towhee. Rather common in the bottom lands of the Colorado River and its tributaries, to which this species is strictly limited. 0re0spiza chl0rura. Green-tailed Towhee. The only one noted I saw at about 60o0 feet altitude in Providence Mountains Zamel0dia melan0cephala. Black-headed Grosbeak. I saw a number of fe- males, apparently migrants. in the Providence Mountains at 50o0 to 6o00 feet alti- tude, but [ saw no males in that range. At Beale Spring both sexes were com- mon and destroying quantities of fruit, to the great annoyance of the owner of the orchard, who employed an Indian to shoot the birds. Unfortunately the Indian did not discriminate between the noxious and harmless species. I saw a few of these grosbeaks on the Hualapai Mountains and one male at Big Sandy Creek. Guiraca caerulea lazula. Western Blue Grosbeak. Seen at various places along the Colorado River and at Big Sandy Creek. Cyan0spiza amena. Lazuli Bunting. Seen only near Needles and Ehrenberg. Piranga lud0viciana. Western Tanager. Soon after our arrival at Twenty- nine Palms, May 7, a male of this species came to the little pond at camp and drank. It appeared exhausted. Next day it was very tame, keeping in the lee