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x76 THE CONDOR VoL. IX forest; true heavy timber still prevailed along the streams but forsook the higher hillsides along which we now traveled. After a walk of several miles along the ridge and several more down White House Creek we found ourselves on the county highway, which for the most part runs along the edge of the cliffs.

NEST OF THE WESTERN FLYCATCHER ON THE TRUNK OF A GIANT REDWOOD, BIG BASIN

We spent the night at the home of a prosperous dairyman and the only difficulty we had was to prevail on our host to accept some return for his kindness. The following morning, May 2Sth, Oluf desiring to take some views of Anna Nuevo Island and its lighthouse we crossed a mile or so of sandy waste of a headland the point of which lies directly opposite the island. Here in the sand banks along the beach I found several colonies of Bank Swallows (Clivicola riparia), worthy of notice; for unlike the great colonies in the cliffs about Santa Cruz where several hundred birds nest, there were but half a dozen pairs or so together. The sand banks were about ten feet high and most of the nesting burrows were only placed eight feet or so up, so it was an easy matter to reach them. The tunnels ran from two and a half to four feet in and contained either eggs in various conditions or small young.

We resumed our tramp about noon and some hours later arrived at Scott's Creek. Finding the stage just about to leave and being informed that the road from there on passed thru a region possessing little of variety or interest, we took passage and that evening found us again in our "bungalow by the sea" at Capitola, our permanent camp from where we made numerous other excursions into the mountains of Santa Cruz.

San Francisco, California.