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 76 THE CONDOR VoL. VI Poway alt. 460 ft., lat. 33, was 27 Sacramento alt. 35 ft., lat. 39, was 29 Riverside " 85t .... 34 " 24 Auburn "3o .... 39 " 26 Fresno " 293 .... 37 " 25 Marysville " 67 .... 394-" 27 Stockton " 23 .... 38 " 25 Red Bluff "3o7 .... 4o4-" 27 ValleySprings" 678 .... 38 " 26 It will be seen that a considerable increase in latitude and altitude has but little influence in modifying temperature in the interior of California. I have known spring to be backward in the valley and early in the nloun- tains. At Stockton in the spring of t897 vegetation was very much behind aver- age seasons and eqally late at Murphy, altitude 23o0 feet. Supposi'ng it would be correspondingly late at Big Trees, altitude 47oo feet, I delayed going there until May 28, when to my surprise I found the plants about two weeks earlier than I had ever seen them in any of my numerous visits to the place. The locust and the purple lilac had blossomed about tile middle of May, while June 5 is about the average time at this locality. Dr. J. W. Williams reported spring a month earlier than usual at Fort Walla Walla (latitude 46, altitude 20o feet) in t885. Mr. John Fannin, at Burrard Inlet, B.C., latitude about 5 o, reported the gardens "gorgeous with apple blossoms April 4, 885. The only remarkable feature of the spring is its mildness which has con- tinued since the last week in February. The only remarkable arrivals are t-/ylo- cichla ustulata and Dendroica auduboni which came nearly a month earlier than last season. Our winter residents have, however, started north at about their usual time with one or two exceptions." Of 884 he said "the weather from April  was one continuous stretch of fine weather and yet this circumstance does not appear to have caused the arrival of migrants any earlier than former years; on the contrary in some cases they have been later." I call attention to what Mr. Fannin says of the migrants and also the early flowering of apples. Mr. T. S. Palmer reported apples in full bloom at Berkeley March 3, 885, a difference of only five days. The data on flowering of plants though interesting was of little value for pur- poses of comparison. At Walla Walla Dr. Williams gave dates of flowering of many plants but only one of his species was mentioned and that by a single observer. Stockton, Cal. Nevada Notes BY WILSON C. HANNA (Concluded) Asio wils0nianus. Long-cared Owl. One pair was found nesting in a thorn bush near Stone House May o. Spe0tyt0 c. hyp0gea. Burrowing Owl. Not uncommon. Ceryle alcy0n. Belted Kingfisher. Not uncommon. C01aptes c. c011aris. Red-shafted Flicker. A few observed. a The altitudes here given are approximately correct.