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notes began to be heard at early dusk, by seven o’clock; but on 
account of their ventriloquial quality gave little clue as to dis- 
tanee. Although far-reaching the notes proved to have been ut- 
tered really close at hand. By eareful stalking the point of origin 
was located in the top of a tall yellow pine 200 yards from camp ; 
and presently a small bird with a true owl silhouette flew across 
an open space and lit in the top of a tall tree fully 100 feet from 
the ground. <A charge of number 7 shot started it down and 
after a few minutes lodgement, it fell to the ground at my feet, 
my first and only specimen of the dwarf screech owl, and one of 
the rarest birds of California. 
We had previously heard exactly the same notes at Dry lake, 
9000 feet, on the night of June 21. I saw a little owl there by 
the camp-fire he¢ht, among the tamarack pines. close at hand, but 
failed to secure it. The specimen obtained is a male in full adult 
plumage (No. 6730 Coll. J. G.). I submitted it to Mr. H. C. 
Oberholser of the United States Department of Agriculture, who 
identified it as nearest to, but not quite, idahoensis. It possibly 
represents a shghtly differentiated race. I have compared it 
with two flammulated owls in the collection of Mr. G. Frean 
Moreom, from the Huachuea mountains, Arizona, and find ex- 
tremely close similarity. I have no true flammeola, however, for 
comparison. 
Bubo virginianus pacificus Cassin. Pacific Horned Owl. 
Horned owls were frequently heard in July at Bluff lake, and 
along the upper Santa Ana, below the mouth of the south fork, 
and at Seven Oaks. The species seemed common at Bear lake, 
where an adult male specimen (No. 6916, Coll. J. G.) was se- 
cured by camp-fire heht, July 30, 1905. The stomach of this 
bird contained three “* Jerusalem crickets’? and two beetles. Else- 
where this owl was heard at the north base of Sugarloaf and at 
Doble. 
Geococcyx californianus (Lesson). Roadrunner. 
Roadrunners were seen only on the northern and southern 
foothills of the San Bernardino mountains. At Cushenbury 
springs (4000 feet) and Cactus Flat (6000 feet), on the desert 
