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to invade the valley about Keddie, so residents informed me. Otherwise they keep pret- 

 ty well to the spruce above 4000 feet. Yet a single bird was flushed from a log near my 

 cabin, altitude 3200 feet, September 22. 



The Canada Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) was the only nuthatch recorded, and it 

 was everywhere present in the coniferous growth from Keddie upward. 



Final dates for some other species are: Black-chinned Hummingbird ( Archilochus 

 alexandri), September 11; Olive-sided Flycatcher (Nuttallornis borealis) , September 11; 

 Western Wood Pewee (Myiochanes richardsoni richardsoni) , September 27; Western 

 Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana), September 15; Black-throated Gray Warbler (Dendroica 

 nigrescens) , September 9 — all at about 3200 feet altitude. — Austin Paul Smith, Houston, 

 Texas, December 5, 1911. 



The Status of the White-rumped Petrels of the California Coast. — In a careful re- 

 view of the Leach Petrel and its races, Oberholser (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 54, October 

 19, 1917, pp. 165-172) concludes that three subspecies of Oceanodroma leucorhoa .'should 

 be recognized from the North Pacific: O. I. leucorhoa (Vieillot) from the vicinity of the 

 Kuril and Aleutian Islands; O. I. beah Emerson, from southeastern Alaska south to Ore- 

 gon, and migrating "south to the coast of California"; and O. I. kaedingi, from the coast 

 and islands of Lower California and southward, and "north probably also to southern 

 California". The O. beldingi of Emerson, described from the coast of Oregon, is placed 

 as a synonym of beali. Access to adequate material representative of kaedingi has en- 

 abled Oberholser to properly characterize that form and to establish its membership in 

 the leucorhoa series. Undoubtedly Oberholser's decisions in regard to the names in the 

 group will stand. And since all specimens of kaedingi actually examined come from 

 south of the Mexican line, that name must, for the present anyway, be removed from the 

 California list, no matter what the probabilities may be. 



Oberholser apparently had no white-rumped petrels at all from the coast of Cali- 

 fornia. The present writer is fortunate in being able to offer some supplementary data 

 which show conclusively that it is the race beali that breeds on the coast of California, at 

 least to the northward. There are in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology ten white-rump- 

 ed petrels from the coast of California. Five of these are skins of adults and are listed 

 with measurements in the following table. 



Locality Date 



Pigeon Pt. Light, San Mateo Co. May 7, 1899 



Double Rocks, Humboldt Co. July 4, 1911 



Double Rocks, Humboldt Co. July 4, 1911 



near Trinidad, Humboldt Co. July 16, 1911 



near Trinidad, Humboldt Co. July 16, 1911 



It will be seen from the above measurements, if used in comparison with Ober- 

 holser's tables, that California birds in so far as specimens are available are distinctly 

 of the race beali, rather than of the much smaller race kaedingi. The bird from the coast 

 of San Mateo County, of date May 7, indicates strongly that the white-rumped petrel 

 known to have bred on the Farallones is beali also. I know of no specimens from the 

 Farallones now extant in any Museum. Three young with more or less down in their 

 plumage are in this Museum (nos. 16718-16720) taken near Trinidad, Humboldt County, 

 September 4, 1910, by Joseph Dixon, and also one downy young (no. 25526) taken near 

 Eureka, Humboldt County, August 24, 1915, by Franklin J. Smith. The four adults listed 

 in the table as from Humboldt County were breeding birds, as was another (no. 17038) 

 of which only the skeleton was saved. — J. Grixnell, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 

 Berkeley, California. 



Mus. 

 no. 



Se: 



7090 

 21426 





21427 



? 



21428 



? 



21429 



$ 



Collector 



Wing 



Tail 



Culmen 



Tarsus 



Forking 

 of 

 tail 



C. Littlejohn 



145.7 



78.0 



14.8 



22.9 



16.9 



C. I. Clay 



154.6 



79.4 



14.8 



23.4 



15.1 



C. I. Clay 



154.7 



80.3 



14.9 



23.7 



18.7 



C. I. Clay 



149.5 



81.1 



15.2 



23.7 



16.5 



C. 1. Clay 



156.0 



79.2 



15.8 



23.1 



18.4 



