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 BULLETIN OF THE COOPER ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 95 flock of Intermediate Sparrows. On April 26, 899, I secured another, also a fe- male, and on March 29, 899, I saw one which I did not shoot. It was feeding in the yard with the chickens and as I was within ten feet of it I could easily dis- tinguish it from the Intermediate Sparrows about. _[unto hyemalis. On Nov. 3, 898, I shot two'Slate-colored Juncos, both males. These two birds were by themselves, though I saw a large flock of Thurber's Jun- cos but a short distance from where I secured them. Coccothraustes vesperlinus montanus. On Oct. 30, 898, on the summit of Mr. Wil- son, I secured two adult female Western Evening Grosbeaks. No others were seen during the two days we remained in the locality. ,?itta canadensis. In the fall of 898 I found the Canada Nuthatch comparatively abundant in the vicinity of Los Angeles. I shot the first on Sept. 6 and was very much surprised at finding this species so far from the mountains. A few days later I secured another and from then on they were seen almost daily until about the middle of October when they disappeared Mr. Robertson informs me that he saw one in a pepper tree at the extreme end of Point Firmin on Sept. 8, 898. ALBINOS. Zonotrichia leucoph,rs intermedia. I shot a partial albino Interme- diate Sparrow on Feb. 5, x899. This bird is normal except for the tail, which is white with a dusky bar across it near the tip. One tail feather is normal in color and is about inch longer than the others. ,4gelaiusphoeniceus. On May 7, x899, I saw a male Redwinged Blackbird, with almost all the primaries and secondaries of each wing, pure white. I did not shoot it and have seen it several times since in the same place, where there is a colony breeding. H.S. SwARTm Bradbury Blk., Los Angeles, Cal. sting oi the 6alitornia 6ackoo. Six o'clock in the evening of June x7, x899, found me trudging wearily along the bank of a running stream about ten miles north of San Jose. I had been out all day and having had poor luck had given up collect- ing and was walking back the wagon road along the creek bank to my horse. Between the stream and the road is a growth of young willow and maple trees into which I cast occasional glances. Hearing a rustle, and seeing a bird leave a clump of willows I stopped, and noticed a nest near the top of one of the trees, and took it to be a nest of the Black-headed Grosbeak. One of the boys who was with me climbed to the nest and reported three plain blue eggs, which I at once concluded were eggs of the California Cuckoo. The bird left the vicinity and did not return, but the glance I had of her as she left the trees was enough to assure me that my identification was correct. The nest was at the top of a small willow, in a fork, nine feet from the ground and was a very frail structure, composed of twigs, straw and rootlets, well hollowed, and sparingly lined with fine grasses. The eggs are three in number, greenish- blue in color and very much resemble eggs of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo in my collection. One of them was fresh, the others slightly incubated. The same day I found a shell of an egg of this species on the ground, which had evidently been hatched, but a half hour's search failed to reveal the nest. At another place a bird was seen so I conclude that they breed sparingly in the locality every year. WL L. AT:XNSON, Santa Clara, Cal. Aug. x3, '99- otes trom Alameda, 6al. Oct. 6, x898, I took a Western Winter Wren, the third I ever noted in this district. Shot a  Californian Thrasher that was singing, perched on top of a bush. Like many others of its kind it was covered with ver- min, especially on the neck and breast. Perhaps the bird's bill is so long as to prevent it reaching these parts. Does the  usually sing ? American Pipits were noted sparingly on the Coast Range Mrs. along the bound- ary of Alameda and Contra Costa counties on April x. These were late to mi- grate or were possibly about to breed there. Long-tailed Chats were common as usual in localities visited this season, but the birds were seldom seen on account