1908] Grinnell —Biota of the San Bernardino Mountains. 156) 
August 5 to 9, and at Cactus Flat August 15 to 17. On the sum- 
mit of Sugarloaf August 19, 1905, and at the north base of 
Sugarloaf the same day, several were noted. The species was 
also seen at Saragossa springs, near Gold mountain, August 26. 
Thirty specimens in all were secured. 
Dendroica occidentalis (Townsend). Hermit. Warbler. 
An adult male of the hermit warbler was taken and another 
individual seen early in the morning of September 3, 1905, in a 
willow clump near Bluff lake. These were doubtless migrants, 
for we failed to find the species anywhere earlier in the season. 
Seiurus noveboracensis notabilis (Ridgway). 
_Alaska Water-thrush. 
On August 16, 1905, I obtained an example of Seiwrus nove- 
boracensis notabilis which provided the second reeord known to 
me for this State. The bird was flushed from a tangle of bushes 
which surrounded a spring in a ravine, a hundred yards or so 
back of Jim Johnston’s house at Cactus Flat, 6000 feet elevation. 
The region is an arid one, and I was at the spring on purpose 
to scrutinize the hordes of birds which were constantly visiting 
it for a drink and a bath. <A good part of these were transients, 
which reminds us again that to stand the best chance of finding 
northern stragglers one must strike the fall migration. early in 
August. 
The water-thrush was among a throng of warblers and small 
sparrows, several of the latter in streaked juvenal plumage. and 
I did not recognize it as anything noteworthy, until it flew up 
out of the shade and perched with other small birds, drying them- 
selves in the open branch-work of a fire-killed oak. Then my 
attention became fixed on it because of the peculiar recurrent 
dipping movement of its body, and its identity flashed into my 
mind. I promptly ‘‘auxed’’ the bird, and found upon skinning 
that it was a bird-of-the-year, as shown by the large ‘‘windows’’ 
in the skull yet ungranulated. To be more explicit, the specimen 
(No. 7157, Coll. J. G.) is in complete first-winter plumage. It 
is precisely like examples from northern Alaska in both coloration 
and measurements. 
