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Spizella monticola ochracea. Western Tree Sparrow. A fine male specimen taken 
at Pacific Grove, California, October 13, 1916, is in my possession. 
Piranga ludoviciana. Western Tanager. A male of the year which was feeding on 
madrone berries and with its plumage badly smeared with crude oil, was secured at 
Boulder Creek, California, October 20, 1916. 
Piranga rubra rubra. Summer Tanager. I have a female which I secured in the 
cypress grove on the summit of Guadalupe Island, Mexico, on October 12, 1913. 
Guiraca caerulea lazgula. Western Blue Grosbeak. Two males observed feeding on 
wild oats near Mosquito Harbor, San Clemente Island, April 21, 1914. 
Dendroica townsendi. Townsend Warbler. A male secured near the same place 
on April 18, 1914. 
Dendroica coronata. Myrtle Warbler. A number observed near Adams, Califor- 
nia, in November, 1915. 
Vermivora celata sordida. Dusky Warbler. Seen in the willows on the beach at 
Monterey, California, in October, and at Pacific Grove, in November, 1916. 
Thryomanes bewicki drymoecus. San Joaquin Wren. One specimen secured at 
Adams, California, November 1, 1915. 
Thryomanes bewicki marinensis. Nicasio Wren. One specimen secured seven 
miles east of Crescent City, California, November 18, 1915. 
Riparia riparia. Bank Swallow. A considerable colony of some kind of swallow, 
certainly not Petrochelidon, and apparently Bank Swallows, were present about an out- 
lying rock at Alamos Landing, Santa Cruz Island, California, during June, 1914. 
Penthestes rufescens rufescens. Chestnut-backed Chickadee. A family found in a 
burnt stub, eleven miles from McCloud, California, near the river of that name, on Aug- 
ust 2, 1915—H. H. Krmparu, Seal Beach, California, February 20, 1922. 
Townsend Solitaire on the Oregon Coast.—On February 28, 1922, a single Town- 
send Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi) was seen along the roadside near the mouth of the 
Miami River, Tillamook County, Oregon. This is the first record of the Solitaire in this 
county, and so far as I can learn the first west of the coast mountains in northwestern 
Oregon. It breeds commonly in the Transition zone in the Blue Mountains of eastern 
Oregon, and sparingly west to the west slope of the Cascades in central and northern 
Oregon, migrating into the Willamette Valley sparingly during the winter.—STANLEY G. 
JEWET!, Portland, Oregon, March 10, 1922. 
A Winter Record of the Texas Nighthawk in California.—At first thought, one 
would hardly expect a goatsucker to tolerate more than a touch of frost, but, indeed, 
there is no apparent reason why a bird of this sort should not be able to gain a living 
wherever and whenever a Vermilion Flycatcher can. However that may be, shortly 
after sundown on January 23, 1922, three miles northwest of Calexico, Imperial County, 
California, a Texas Nighthawk (Chordeiles acutipennis texensis) flew a few yards above 
me and hawked back and forth several times above a field of lettuce. This could hardly 
have been a migrating bird, and its presence was all the more unsual for the fact that 
the given date was in the midst of the coldest weather experienced by southern Califor- 
nia during nine years, with a third of an inch of ice at night. It is a question whether 
frosts are not just as frequent and as severe in the Imperial Valley as they are through- 
out the general area known as the “thermal belt” of the San Diegan faunal division. 
However, the mean winter temperature is considerably higher in the former section, due 
to much warmer days, and as there are probably few birds found north of the Mexican 
border which cannot put up with an occasional frosty night, one would expect to find 
more of the “tender” species lingering through the winter in the Valley than in the 
relatively cooler districts nearer the coast. 
In the same locality on January 22, 1922, I flushed two flickers from a cotton- 
wood by the roadside. One was the usual Colaptes cafer collaris, but the other was a 
yellow-shafted bird, and appeared to be somewhat smaller. It was impossible to tell 
whether this individual was a Colaptes chrysoides mearnsi, or merely one of those 
puzzlers which are variously placed as Colaptes auratus borealis, or as chromatic vari- 
ants of collaris. During the breeding season, Mearns Gilded Flicker is seldom found far 
from the sahuaros, but in winter it scattters more widely, and for some years I have 
