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and two of the Oriole in other trees. One Towhee also had its nest in an ivy on 

 the front porch. She was very shy, and even when the eggs were hatching, would 

 leave the nest as we passed in and out of the house. 



Several Mockingbirds began nests and three broods were raised during the 

 season by various pairs of this bird. A Sonora Yellow Warbler occupied the top of 

 the tallest tree and a Plumbeous Gnatcatcher partially completed its nest in an um- 

 brella tree. Black-throated Sparrows were always present but built their nests in 

 the scrubby greasewood and catclaw just outside the fence, where I found several 

 nests with eggs or young birds. A Say Phoebe spent most of her time there catch- 

 ing insects for her nestful in an adobe wall across the street. A couple of pairs of 

 Cactus Wrens filled thick bunches of twigs in one of the trees with their baskets of 

 hay, and quarreled with each other and the kingbirds. Several old oriole nests 

 were occupied by the House Finches. 



To sum up, there were on this small space, 120 by 150 feet, six or more pairs 

 of House Finches, three of the Mockingbird, four Arizona Hooded Oriole, one Bul- 

 lock Oriole, one Vermilion Flycatcher, one Costa Hummer, seven Canyon Towhee 

 (with seven occupied nests at one time), two Cactus Wren, one Baird Woodpecker, 

 two Cassin Kingbird — a total of twenty-eight pairs all of which raised one or more 

 broods of young. 



Tomhstone^ Arizona. 



THE NEW RESERVES ON THE WASHINGTON COAST * 



By WILLIAM I^EON DAWSON 



SOME surprise has been expressed at the recent creation by Executive order of 

 four bird and animal preserves off our Northwestern coast. It was a case, 

 in fact, in which the Audubon Societies, supported by the Federal authori- 

 ties, were able to act before extensive damage had been done (by the white man at 

 least) instead of decades after — as has been the rule because of the "times of ignor- 

 ance." Messrs. Finley and Bohlman had ably exploited the interests of the Three 

 Arch Rocks, now formed into a reserve of the same name off the coast of Oregon; 

 but it was not generally known, except to officials and inattentive settlers, that ex- 

 tensive colonies of nesting sea-birds existed along the ocean coast of Washington. 

 In Jvily, 1906, the writer, accompanied by wife and child, undertook a canoe 

 trip along this coast with a view to determining the ornithological resources of the 

 major rocks and islands, some one hundred and thirty in number, which lie scat- 

 tered along the coast between Moclips, the terminus of a recently completed North- 

 ern Pacific spur, and Cape Flattery, at the entrance of the Straits of Juan de Fuca. 

 The weather was unusually propitious and we were able to reconnoiter practically 

 all of the islets and to visit the more important ones. Early in June of the present 

 year, accompanied by Professor I^ynds Jones of Oberlin, I revisited these islands, 

 proceeding southward via canoe from Neah Bay as far as Destruction Island, and 

 returning by the same course toward the end of the month. At Carroll Islet, in 

 the Quillayute Needles Reservation, we tarried several days, and the beauties of 

 that miniature paradise must form the theme of a later report. 



a Note. — Hastily piepared by special request on the eve of publication. Mr Dawson will present a fuller ac- 

 count of his visit to the foremost of these bird islands, under the title "Bird-life on Habaahtaylch," in a future 

 number of The Condor.— Edd. 



