Vou XI] EVERMANN— DIRECTOR'S REPORT FOR JW 683 



Commission, 5; Mr. G. W. Edwards, 1; Mr. E. R. Leach, 2; Mr. J. W. 

 Mailliard, Jr., 1; Rev. W. S. Matthew, 1; Mr. John McLaren (Golden Gate 

 Park), 6; Mr. W. L Morris, 2; Mr. Paul O'Brien, 1; Mr. E. H. Ober, 5; 

 Miss Susie Peers, 1; Dr. Emmet Rixford, 1; Mr. Rosenblatt, 9; Mr. Frank 

 Tose, 2; Mrs. J. Wilkens, 1. By Purchase: 108. 



Joseph Mailliard, Curator. 



Department of Ornithology 



Throughout the year 1922 work in this department has been carried on 

 without interruption. For the first three months of the year the department 

 had the benefit of the services of both Miss M. E. McLellan and Mr. Chase 

 Littlejohn, after which time Miss McLellan was the only assistant regularly 

 employed. Other than routine work, the mounting, cataloging, and card- 

 indexing of the egg collection has been the main occupation of the office force 

 during the year. Considerable work has also been accomplished in the field. 



The curator, with Mr. Herbert Barth as an enthusiastic but inexperienced 

 assistant, made a field trip to Siskiyou County, California, to continue the work 

 commenced there by an Academy party in 1920 (vide Mailliard, Proc. Calif. 

 Acad. Sci., 4th Ser., Vol. XI, No. 5, pp. 73-94). The expedition of 1922 was 

 equipped with an automobile and a full camping outfit, which enabled it to 

 reach and examine places in this region that had been inaccessible upon the 

 previous visit. The party was in the field from May 12 to June 26, making 

 observations and collecting specimens in several sections of Siskiyou County. 

 The search for possibly existing breeding grounds of the genus Passerella— 

 fox sparrows— in the mountain ranges west of Shasta and Scott valleys was 

 one of the principal objects of the spring field work, and the discovery of this 

 genus nesting in several places from which it has never before been recorded 

 was ample recompense for the time and trouble spent in accomplishing this 



result. 



During the ten days passed in Yreka and vicinity, a good list of the breed- 

 ing birds of the locality was obtained, and a reasonable number of specimens 

 were secured. The Salmon and Forest Mountain ranges, as well as Gazelle 

 Mountain, were visited, and valuable data procured. 



A field party, consisting of the curator and an untrained assistant, Mr. 

 W. B. Smith, with car and camp equipment as before, carried on some work 

 in Plumas and Yuba counties for a month in the autumn. The principal 

 object of this trip was to study the movements of fox sparrows among the foot- 

 hills along the western side of the Sacramento Valley, where little or no work 

 of this sort had ever been done. Enough notes and specimens were secured to 

 add considerably to our stock of knowledge of these birds. 



Use has been made of the Academy material and facilities by various per- 

 sons, but not nearly to so great an extent as is desired. 



A loan collection of bird skins has been arranged for the use of the public 

 school teachers, and there is a constant demand for various of its units for 

 educational purposes. Loans of material for study and comparison have also 

 been requested from time to time by different persons living at a distance 

 from San Francisco. 



