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Bohemian Waxwing in Mariposa County. — There have been recently added to the 

 bird collection of the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, four specimens of the 

 Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrula), nos. 27561-27564. These birds were secured 

 by Donald D. McLean from a flock containing about isixty Bohemian Waxwings and three 

 Cedar Waxwings, at Smith Creek, six miles east of Coulterville, Mariposa County, Cali- 

 fornia, altitude about 2800 feet, on January 31, 1917. A few days earlier a similar flock 

 was noted. There has been no reported instance of the occurrence of this species within 

 California since 1911, in which year numbers were observed and specimens secured in 

 several places, from Gait, Sacramento County, northward. — Tracy I. Storer, Berkeley, 

 California. 



Large Sets of Eggs of the California Woodpecker. — On May 4, 1916, I collected a 

 set of ten eggs of the California Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus bairdi) from a 

 drilled cavity in a pole carrying electric wires. The cavity was about two feet in depth 

 and about six inches in diameter, and was about fifteen feet from the ground. The eggs 

 were all about half incubated and were all of the same type, so I think they were all laid 

 by one bird. The nest was visited a week later. May 11, and there was nothing in it. 

 On May 29 I was much surprised to find the nest full of newly hatched young. I removed 

 the empty shells of nine eggs, but did not remove any young, so I am not certain as to 

 how many there were in the second laying. The same day I collected a set of ,seven eggs 

 of the same species from another pole, two poles down the line. There were two runts in 

 this set. smaller than Chipping Sparrow eggs. — Sidxey B. Peytox, Sespe, California, 

 March 2',, 1911. 



Zone-tailed Hawk at San Diego, California. — While walking to the street car from 

 my house, December 20, 1916, I saw a black hawk flying towards me along the hill side. 

 It came straight over head, but a short distance away, paying no attention whatever to 

 my presence. It hunted along the hill side and in the adjoining canyon, in action much 

 like a Marsh Hawk, finally perching on a gum tree in front of a house. The next morn- 

 ing a hawk, undoubtedly the same bird, was brought to me for preservation. It was a 

 male Zone-tailed Hawk (Buteo abbreviatus) , shot at close range and badly mutilated. It 

 had evidently eaten a meadow lark just before going to roost the previous night, and it 

 had been shot near the same place where I first saw it. — Hexry Grey, San Diego, Cali- 

 fornia, February 23, 1917. 



Western Goshawk in Ventura County, California. — The following specimens of 

 the Western Goshawk (Astur atricapillus striatulus), all taken in Ventura County, were 

 received by Melvin Phillips, taxidermist at Fillmore, during the winter of 1916-17. 



Male, taken by P. W. Robinson at Nordhoff, October 30, 1916. Male, taken by Earl 

 Cole in Sespe Canyon, November 26, 1916. Female, taken by J. W. Bay in Ojai Valley, 

 January 2, 1917. Female, taken by John Nicholson midway between Santa Paula and 

 Ventura, February 27, 1917. The last mentioned specimen is now in the collection of J. 

 N. Procter, of Ventura. 



The two females were examined by George Willett, who states that they possess the 

 dark shading of the under parts ascribed to the form striatulus. — Sidxey B. Peytox, 

 Sespe, California, March 24, 1917. 



Occurrence of the Red-breasted Nuthatch in Arizona. — On January 18, 1917, I ob- 

 served a single Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) near the northeast edge of the 

 Coconino plateau, about forty miles south of Winslow, Arizona. The bird was seen in 

 the pinyon and juniper zone, at an elevation of 7000 feet, in company with Pigmy Nut- 

 hatches, Rocky Mountain Nuthatches, Gray Titmice, Mountain Chickadees and Lead-col- 

 ored Bush-tits. Swarth in his "Distributional List of the Birds of Arizona" states that 

 there are very few Arizona records of this bird, the last given being that of Gilman, at 

 Sacaton in 1910. My only other record for Arizona is that of a single individual seen in 

 Schulz Pass, in the San Francisco Mountains, on October 15, 1914, at an elevation of S500 

 feet. — Oscar F. Sciiaefer, L 7 . S. Forest Service, Flagstaff, Arizona, March 20, 1917. 



