a General Bird Notes. [ZOE 
dagger. While collecting through this growth, I heard the very 
well-known notes of Leconte’s thrasher and found the author; 
but as is generally the case with this species, a bird seen is by 
no means in the cabinet. After chasing him for several minutes 
I got a long-range snap-shot, but lost him. Later I heard one 
or more others, but they could not be secured. 
A. W. ANTHONY. 
[In North American Fauna No. 7, Part II, Leconte’s thrasher is recorded 
from the San Joaquin Valley, near Buena Vista Lake, upon the observa- 
tions of Mr. Nelson. The maps which are published show that the dis- 
tribution of the creosote bush (Larrea ‘ridentata) and the northern 
distribution of Leconte’s thrasher are almost ex ctly co-extensive. — 
W. E. B.] 
Vaux’s Swirt at REDWoop Crry. . 
On June 25, 1893, Mr. C. Littlejohn of Redwood City col- 
lected a pair of these birds which had been seen about the 
_ town on several occasions, probably the same individuals, as 
none have been seen since that date. ‘The first appearance of the 
Species was in the fall of the previous year, when two or three 
were seen. In reply to a letter of mine, Mr. Littlejohn writes: 
“I too thought the swifts had been living in a chimney, and as, 
I had never seen a chimney swift I thought these might be a 
pair of them that had found their way out to California. When 
_ they were taken they had a stron g smoky smell, which they still 
retain in a less degree. I think the odor was too strong to come 
from any charred tree, as you suggested, and it reminded me 
strongly of the smell of an Aleut’s hut in Alaska, The female 
_ Was probably not nesting at the time.” 
: Vaux’s swift is an irregular summer resident of Sebastopol 
according to Mr. F. H. Holmes. W. E. Bryant. 
Bea rpcrey ene ee 
Nore ON THE NESTING oF SAMUEL’s SonG SPARROW. 
At Redwood City as at Haywards, Samuel’s song sparrow is 
confined during the breeding season to the salt marsh, where 
it begins nesting early in March 
before the high tides in the latter 
would interfere. This season 
latter part of June in the wood 
and has its young reared 
part of May or first of June 
I found them with young in the 
s and at the base of the mountains 
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