136 THE CONDOR Vol. XXIV 
This opportunity occurred on February 12, but instead of being a towhee it was a very 
different bird. Its general appearance was very like that of the female Arizona Hooded 
Oriole, a trifle smaller and more stockily built. 
The shapes of the head and bill were quite different from those of the oriole. The 
bill was an orange yellow, rather brighter than that of the white-crowned sparrow. In 
size the bill was between that of the grosbeak and that of the oriole. The lower photo- 
graph (fig. 34) shows the shape admirably. The eye was prominent and bead-like. The 
upper parts of the bird were greenish, brightest on the head and rump, back washed with 
grayish, wings and tail brownish. The under parts were more or less yellow, brightest 
on throat and rump, whitish in middle. It had two white wing-bars, and later the ter- 
tials were slightly tipped with white. 
It came regularly to the feeding table from one to a dozen times a day, from Feb- 
ruary 12 to April 10. Have not seen it since April 10. During those two months there 
were not more than three days in which I did not see it. It may have come without 
having been seen. 
The table was ten or twelve feet from my window. Each morning I put a small 
quantity of bird-seed, some cracker crumbs, either a spoonful of canned fruit or a cut 
orange, and occasionally some suet on the table, I-never saw this bird touch anything 
but the fruit; and it seemed to prefer the canned figs to any other fruit. It ate of the 
fruit voraciously, coming every half-hour or so as long the daily ration lasted. I did not 
hear it make a sound until a short time before it left and that was a very odd sound of 
several syllables that I cannot describe. 
The bird was rather shy, especially when the camera was set up near the table, or 
when I used an opera glass at the window. At other times it did not much mind being 
looked at. There was no red in the plumage and no yellow on the wings. Its bill was 
much lighter in color than are the bills of the tanagers in the museum. If it had been 
two months later I should have called it a Western Tanager without question. 
My record ot the visits of the Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) is as fol- 
lows: 1908—May 11 to May 15; 1912—April 28 to May 8; 1918—May 4; 1921—May 6 to 
May 29; 1922—May 12. 
It not a Western Tanager what was my unknown bird?—-Mrs. T. F. JOHNSON, 
National City, California, May 29, 1922. 
Swamp Sparrow Recorded from California.—On their return from a collecting trip 
in the White Mountains of California this past fall, Mrs. May Canfield and Laurence M. 
tiuey stopped at various stations to collect series of the local mammals and birds of 
east-central California. While camped near Keeler, Inyo County, California, on Novem- 
ber 1, 1921, a strange sparrow came to a little spring near the camp. The bird was col- 
lected and proved to be a Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana). This specimen is 
number J 1797 of my collection, and constitutes another addition to the California list. 
In commenting on the specimen, Dr. Joseph Grinnell calls my attention to its 
agreement in wing length with middle-western birds, trom Illinois, rather than with At- 
lantic slope representatives ot the species, as a rough indication of the source of this 
straggler. 
The bird has been recognized as a regular summer resident west as far as west- 
central Alberta (A. O. U. Check-List, 3d. ed., 1910, p. 276), but a distinct south-eastern 
trend of fall migration has been indicated, due no doubt to the barrier of the Rocky 
Mountains. That the bird occasionally straggles over these mountains far to the south 
and west is shown both by Howell’s Arizona specimen :(Condor, xvii1, 1916, p. 213) and 
by the present California record.—DoNnaLp R. Dickry, Pasadena, California, May 4, 1922. 
Nesting of the California Evening Grosbeak.—On June 14, 1914, W. W. Moore and 
myself found a California Evening Grosbeak (Hesperiphona vespertina californica). 
Just out of the town limits of Eureka, in a patch of green timber bordered on the lower 
end by a salt marsh, we were attracted by the loud whistling and scolding notes of the 
bird. When we were able to locate the noise, we found four birds feeding in the top 
branches of a white fir. The light being right we could easily distinguish the two males 
