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At 2 p. m. the same day, farther down the coast, between Anaheim Landing and 
Seal Beach, a second Sabine Gull was studied; it was in the winter plumage, only a 
remnant of the dusky hood on back of head and slaty ear coverts remaining. It, too, 
seemed worn with long flight, allowing the Audubonites to approach within fifty feet, 
where a good study was made. A Western Gull was patrolling the beach in lordly style 
and ordered the Sabine to “move on”, emphasizing the command with ruffled plumage 
and open bill attacks. Neither of the Sabines were feeding. 
This report was telephoned to Mr. L. E. Wyman, Ornithologist of the Los Angeles 
Museum, the same evening before any books were consulted and his questions were an- 
swered from notes made of the birds as studied first-hand in the field. He did not ques- 
tion the identification.—Mrs. F. T. BicknreLi, Los Angeles, California, September 1, 1921, 
The Gray Vireo in Los Angeles County, California.—On May 31, 1921, I discovered 
a Gray Vireo (Vireo vicinior) in Mint Canyon, twelve miles from Saugus, California. So 
far as I am able to learn, this species has not previously been recorded west of the Cajon 
Pass region, which is some fifty miles east of Saugus. The bird was not taken, but it 
was studied for three hours under favorable conditions. Only the one bird was seen, 
presumably the male, as it was in full song. It had established a station in the chamisal 
among typical “gray vireo conditions”. From this station it was driven again and again 
only to return to the same point each time. Prolonged search failed to reveal the nest 
although it seemed certain that one must be located within a short distance. Identifica- 
tion was based upon song, the ashy gray color, and persistence in plant association all 
made more or less familiar through previous acquaintance in Arizona and in the Cajon 
Pass country.—LoyvrE MILurerR, Southern Branch, University of California, Los Angeles, 
September 19, 1921. 
Eclipse Plumage of Cinnamon Teal.—On July 11, 1921, A. W. Anthony, H. C. 
Cleaves and I explored Cuyamaca Reservoir, a lake in the Cuyamaca Mountains, San 
Diego county, for material for a habitat group of grebes for the Natural History Museum 
of San Diego. A year previously I had found grebes breeding abundantly in the tule 
patches covering several acres at the east end of the lake. Last winter’s rains were 
scanty here and the steady draft on the water of the reservoir had lowered the water 
so much that the tule patches were high and dry and the grebes had gone elswhere, 
though we did see a brood or two, too large for our purpose. 
Several broods of young ducks were present and I saw a group of three Cinna- 
mon Teal (Querquedula cyanoptera) that I thought were nearly grown and shot two of 
them. These proved to be adults in a stage of plumage new to me. On skinning them 
I found both to be males. They are in the “eclipse” plumage which is undescribed in 
any publication accessible to me here. Probably individuals will vary somewhat, as is 
the case with these two birds. No. 7455 may be described as follows: 
Similar to the usual female plumage; crown and nape dark brown; sides of head, 
throat and neck a pepper-and-salt mixture of dull cinnamon and light gray speckled 
with blackish; back and rump as in the spring plumage except that the mottling is 
coarser and the light edgings to the feathers narrower; the wings and tail are not yet 
molted and perhaps would not show any changes; plumage of breast and lower surface 
Similar to that of the female and immature male, the feathers being brown centrally, 
with lighter edgings; this edging is dull pale cinnamon on the breast, passing to light 
gray and dull white on the belly. There are a few small patches of the old cinnamon 
plumage on the sides. The lower surface of the other bird is still nearly half cinnamon 
colored. It had yellowish brown irises, while those of no. 7455 were red.—F RANK STE- 
PHENS, San Diego, California, August 17, 1921. 
Concerning Incubation on the Part of the Male Belted Kingfisher.*—In the volume 
entitled “Michigan Bird Life’, by Professor Walter Barrows, published in 1912 by the 
Department of Zoology and Physiology of the Michigan Agricultural College, under the 
head of Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon), on page 343, the statement is made that “The fe- 
male alone incubates, but the male carries food to her at frequent intervals.” This may 
have been taken from Bendire’s “Life Histories of North American Birds”, in which 
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*Contribution from the Museum of the California Academy of Sciences. 
