230 "iAK\\.\.\K-R.v>, Nesting of the Fork-tailed Petrel. X^"^^ 



(0.40); depth of bill at base, 0.22-0.25 (o--4); tarsus, 0.71-0.7S (0.73); 

 middle toe, 0.49-0.55 (0.51); length of white spot on lateral tail-feather, 

 0.10-0.45 (0.30). 



Arid plains from western Texas (west of 103" W. longitude) to coast 

 of southern California (San Diego County, etc.), north to northern 

 Nevada and Utah, south into Chihuahua and Sonora ; Lower California.' 



Type, No. 98884, U. S. Nat. Mus., $ ad., Tuscon, Arizona, May 12, 18S4; 

 E. W. Nelson. 



Amphispiza belli clementeae. San Clemente Sparrow. 



Exactly like A. belli (Cassin) in coloration, but larger and Avith rela- 

 tively larger bill. Length (skins), 5.20-5.70 (5.50); wing, 2.45-2.72 (2.61); 

 tail, 2.30-2.68 (2.54); exposed culmen, 0.38-0.41 (0.39); depth of bill at 

 base, 0.22-0.23 (o-23); tarsus, 0.79-0.85 (0.80); middle toe, 0.49-0.53 (0.52). 



San Clemente Island, southern California. 



Type, No. 117612, U. S. Nat. Mus., $ ad., San Clemente Island, Cali- 

 fornia, Jan. 25, 1889; C. H. Townsend. 



NOTES ON THE NESTING OF THE FORK-TAILED 

 PETREL {OCEANODROMA FURCATA). 



BY JOSEPH MAILLIARD. 



At nine o'clock on the evening of June 17, 1896, our anchor 

 was dropped at the island of St. Lazaria, a long, narrow rock lying 

 in the mouth of Sitka Bay, Baranoff Island, Alaska. Landing at 

 once, with my two assistants, we found ourselves upon a low bunch 

 of rock between the two higher portions of the island. Here we 

 shot some Glaucous-winged Gulls {Lams glaucescens), Violet-green 

 Cormorants {Phalacrocorax pelagicus robtistits), Black Oyster-catch- 

 ers {Hcematopiis bachniani), and Tufted Puffins {Lunda cirrhatd). 

 About ten o'clock we discovered a way of reaching the top of the 

 main portion of the island, and found the summit covered with 

 peat in process of formation, out of which grew a rank sort of 

 coarse grass and salmon-berry bushes, and in some places groves 

 of fir and cedar trees. The highest portion is probably 200 feet 

 above the sea, with perpendicular cliffs almost continuously around 



