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tion, even if shooting was going on at a lively rate. I secured 
most of the specimens with the ‘‘aux’’ from junipers where the 
birds came to preen themselves after visiting springs. A large 
scattering flock may be absolutely quiet for minutes at a time, 
and then again indulge in a concert of nasal, mewing calls, which 
ean be heard a long ways. In their method of spreading out over 
a sage flat, and working zigzag over the ground in search of in- 
sects, they closely resemble Brewer blackbirds both in flight and 
general behavior. The flocks of pinon jays consisted of adults 
and young mixed; but the latter could not be distinguished until 
secured. Out of twenty-four specimens taken, seven are adults 
and seventeen are juveniles with loose-textured gray body-plum- 
age. Several of the latter have the lower surface smeared with 
pitch mixed with fine earth, so that the plumage is stringy and 
dirty. Both juvenals and adults (August 3 to 9) show much 
new plumage replacing the old ragged feathers. Some of the 
young are much further along in the process of moult than any 
of the adults. 
Sturnella neglecta Audubon. Western Meadowlark 
A moulting male in nearly complete first winter plumage was 
obtained from a grass patch at the edge of Baldwin lake (then 
dry), 6700 feet altitude, August 27, 1905. The probabilities are 
that it was a newly arrived migrant, as none were seen in Bear 
valley or anywhere else in the region at any time. 
Icterus parisorum Bonaparte. Scott Oriole. 
This species was found only at the desert base of the moun- 
tains. During our stay at Cushenbury springs, 4000 feet eleva- 
tion, August 9 to 14, 1905, I saw among the tree yuccas there and 
at Box S springs several orioles in immature plumage which I was 
quite sure belonged to this species. But they were all too shy 
to permit of close enough approach to shoot, except in the case 
of one individual secured from the group of cottonwoods at 
Cushenbury, August’ 11 (No. 7098, Coll. J. G.). This is a full- 
erown female parisorum in juvenal plumage. This specimen 
shows the looseness of feather structure, especially about the 
head and ventrally, characteristic of the juvenal stage of plum- 
