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found by the hundreds. In some instances 

 they were closely following the plow. 

 While listed as common some years ago, 

 they are of infrequent occurrence now. 

 On December 9, Mrs. F. T. Bicknell 

 and two other members of the local 

 Audubon Society went out in an automo- 

 bile to search for Mountain Plover on the 

 plains to the south and west of the city, 

 where they were seen last year. No Plover 

 was found there, but a very large flock of 

 Mountain Bluebirds was seen in a field 

 which was being seeded, some hovering on 

 the wing, others taking their insect food 

 from the air or from the ground. The num- 

 ber was estimated at from 100 to 200 birds. 

 Pipits also were in the fields in equally 

 large numbers. In a weedy place were 



many Sparrows, including Western Chip- 

 ping, Western Savanna, Western Lark, 

 as well as the more common Gambel and 

 Golden-crown. 



Extending their trip by way of San 

 Pedro Harbor, where ten Egrets were seen, 

 to Point Firmin and White's Point, they 

 found White-throated Swifts (about 200), 

 a flock of 32 Black Turnstones, about the 

 same number of Killdeer, group after 

 group of Sanderling (totaling, perhaps, 

 250), Snowy Plover and Spotted Sand- 

 pipers in small numbers. White-winged 

 and Surf Scoters, and the dead bodies of 

 a Shearwater and a Fulmar. In Inglewood 

 Cemetery were gathered hundreds of Kill- 

 deer scattered about in groups of 25 to 50. 

 Frances B. Schneider, Los Angeles, Calif. 



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