CONTENTS 



The Home Life of the Baird Sandpiper (with map and five photos) 



: Joseph Dixon 77 



Wild Ducks in a City Park (with four photos) W. W. Richards 85 



Some Factors Involved in the Nesting Habit of Birds (with twelve drawings) 



Clarence H. Kennedy 87 



The Status of Aphelocoma cyanotis and its Allies Harry C. Oberholser 94 



Birds of the Humid Coast (concluded) (with one illustration) j 



: Florence Merriam Bailey 95 



FROM FIELD AND STUDY 



Peculiar Nesting Habits of the Avocet H. H. Mitchell 101 



The Surf-bird at San Francisco ....George W. Schussler 101 



Vermilion Flycatcher at San Diego, California Henry Grey 102 



Early Nesting of the California Brown Pelican on Anacapa Island, Cal- 

 ifornia Sidney B. Peyton 102 



Early Nesting of the San Diego Song Sparrow ...W. Lee Chambers 102 



Bohemian Waxwing in Mariposa County Tracy I. Storer 103 



Large Sets of Eggs of the California Woodpecker '...Sidney B. Peyton 103 



Zone-tailed Hawk at San Diego, California Henry Grey 103 



Western Goshawk in Ventura County, California Sidney B. Peyton 103 



Occurrence of the Red-breasted Nuthatch in Arizona.. Oscar F. Schaefer 103 



EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS , 104 



MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 105 



COOPER CLUB MEMBERSHIP ROSTER 107 



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