226 General Bird Notes. [ZOE 
WItson’s PHALAROPE BREEDING IN CALIFORNIA. 
Yesterday [June 16, 1889] I was at the south end of Lake 
Tahoe and waded the swamp. I found a phalarope’s nest but 
the eggs were hatching. An egg which was pipped looked 
almost exactly like a spotted sandpiper’s egg—I could not have 
told the difference. The young, which were two in number, were 
quite dark buff with a black stripe from the top of the head to 
the tail, a small black stripe where the tail should be, three black 
dots on each side of the body and a black dot on each wing and 
side of head. The legs must have been two inches long and the 
feet nearly an inch, the latter as near as I can remember were of 
a lead color; the bill was about half an inch long. The old ones 
came quite close to me, flying about and uttering that peculiar 
quack of theirs. WALTER D. BLIss. 
THE BOHEMIAN WAXWING IN CALIFORNIA. 
The only record of the occurrence of the Bohemian waxwing 
(Ampelis garrulus) in this State, I believe, is that of a 
straggler taken by Dr. Cooper at Fort Mohave on January 10, 
about twenty-three years ago. ‘The bird is probably only a 
winter visitant and the lack of winter observations in the high 
Sierra accounts for it not being better known. 
The Academy of Sciences has six specimens which were sent 
in the flesh from Susanville by Mr. T. B. Sanders. ‘I'wo were 
collected on February 2, 1892, and the other four on Febru- 
ary 17. W. E. BRYANT. 
A MESQUITE TINEID WHICH CONSTRUCTS A BAG- 
LIKE CASE FROM THE LEAVES. 
BY C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND. 
On May 15, 1891, I found two case-worms on mesquite 
(Prosopis juliflora), on the mesa to the east of Las Cruces, New 
Mexico. The larger case measured over 20 mm. in length. 
On May 31, 1891, the mesquite bushes on the mesa, for a mile to 
the east of town, were well stocked with the cases of this larva 
the majority of the bushes having numbers on them. On May 
13, 1892, they were again observed to be very plentiful on ‘the 
mesquite in the same locality. A moderately small and rather 
