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Wilson's Phalarope Breeding in California. 

 Yesterday [June i6, 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 exactl}' like a spotted sandpiper's ^%% — I could not have 

 told the difiference. 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 garruhis) 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. Two were 

 collected on February 2, 1892, and the other four on Febru- 

 ary 17. • W. E. Bryant. 



A MESQUITE TINEID WHICH CONSTRUCTS A BAG- 

 EIKE CASE FROM THE LEAVES. 



BY C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND. 



On May 15, 1891, I found two case-worms on mesquite 

 {Prosopis Jiiliflora), 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 



