BULLETIN No. 32. 3 



that day in " Rubio " was a realization. And now as I look 

 back at it in the dizzy retro.spect of years it .seems like a beauti- 

 ful dream. Starting from home "Lomita," in the Calmenga 

 Valley near Los Angeles, I met my friend, a true old noble- 

 man of Nature, clad in his rustic garb and carrying a time- 

 worn market basket. But beneath his rough clothes, donned 

 purposely for the trip, there was one of the keenest and best 

 ornithologists of the west. We took the train, and as we 

 passed the country- lying from Los Angeles to Pasadena, the 

 scenery was grand. Lemon orchards, palms, little farms here 

 and there as neatly kept as a front ^^ard of a cit}^ dwelling, 

 came and went away before the eyes as we peered out of the 

 car windows. 



The City of Los Angeles is truly a citj^ of angels to me. 

 And I believe if an angel would drop down from heaven and 

 view around, he would soon soar to that dainty little city 

 cuteh" ensconced amid a range of the Sierra Madre in .southern 

 California, and say, throwing down his mantle and lowering 

 his wings, " I'm back in heaven. lam back in the City of 

 Angels. ' ' 



We soon reached our gettiug-off-place and .soon started over 

 the rough country of the foothills. Bevies of Valley Quail 

 greeted us along the pathway. A flock of down}' 3'oung come 

 .skampering down the path but a glimpse of us was enough 

 and sent them .scurrying awa}- in the high gra.ss nearby. An- 

 na's and Black-chinned Hummers were common, and as we pro- 

 ceeded up the canon, along a little .stream, we found many of 

 their nests with eggs. Phainopeplas and Black-tailed Gnatcatch- 

 ers were common now, and as I passed a little .stream I saw for 

 the first time in life a Pileolated Warbler drop down from its 

 green bower, and pau.sing, drink from the pebbly shallows of 

 the little stream. We found a Black-tailed Gnatcatcher's nest 

 and one of the Western Flycatcher. The former was in a 

 live up-right, far up ; the latter amid ferns and other growth 

 beneath the overhanging face of a bank near the stream. 

 Louisiana Tanagers, Black-headed Grosbeaks, Black Phoebes, 

 several kinds of Warblers and California Thra.shers were com- 

 mon. I found a beautiful set of the Desert Sparrow Hawk in 

 a cavity of a live oak. It comprised five eggs, the most beau- 

 tiful I ever .saw for this species ; I got nearly eaten up by ants 



