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nest was unusually large, about 18 inches top diameter, 314 inches thick; perfectly flat, 
no hollow. Elevation about 5000 feet above sea-level. 
My informant tells me that the Pigeons are very numerous on Palomar Mountain 
and he believed that there were several more pairs nesting. He says the acorn crop is 
unusually large this year and that the elder and cascara bushes are loaded with berries, 
on both of which the pigeons largely feed. Probably the plentiful food supply and a 
warm open fall account for the late nesting. Possibly the fall may be the best time to 
find them nesting anyway. They are scarce enough in the spring and summer.—C. 5. 
SHARP, Escondido, California, October 27, 1918. 
Recent Additions to the California State List of Birds——There was enumerated as 
of full standing in the 1915 “Distributional List of the Birds of California’ (Pacific Coast 
Avifauna number 11) a total of 541 species and subspecies. Up to December 20, 1918, 
there have been no adequate reasons advanced for removing any one of these 541 forms 
from regular standing. On the other hand, there has been a total of 23 additional forms 
given full standing as birds of California on reasonably convincing grounds. These 23 
additions are listed below, each with citaticn to place of proposal. It must be kept in 
mind that mere changes in names do not figure here—only distinct species or subspecies 
not included in the main 1915 list under any name whatsoever. 
1. Thalassogeron culminatus (Gould). Yellow-nosed Albatross. This name is 
restored from hypothetical status because the determination of the skull upon which the 
earlier record was based has been authenticated. (See Loomis, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 
4th ser., 11, 1918, pp. 84-85.) 
2. Oceanodroma leucorhoa kaedingi Anthony. Kaeding Petrel. (See Miller, Con- 
dor xx 1918 p. 211.) 
3. Anser albifrons gambeli Hartlaub. Tule Goose. (See Swarth and Bryant, 
Unive cali, Publ. Zool., xvi, 1917, pp. 209-222, pl. 13.) . 
4, Numenius americanus americanus Bechstein. American Long-billed Curlew. 
(See Oberholser, Auk, xxxv, 1918, pp. 189-190.) Oberholser ascribes two races of the 
Long-billed Curlew to California, of which Numenius americanus occidentalis is the more 
essentially western form and the one to which most previous records probably belong. 
d). Astur atricapillus atricapillus (Wilson). Eastern Goshawk. (See Grinnell, 
Condor, x1x, 1917, p. 70.) Doubts have been expressed by L. B. Bishop and by P. A. 
‘Taverner as to the existence of two races of goshawk in America; but so far no adequate 
treatment of the problem has been published. 
6. Glaucidium gnoma pinicola Nelson. Rocky Mountain Pigmy Owl. (See Grin- 
nell, Condor, xx;1918, p. 86.) 
7. Dryobates villosus leucothorectis Oberholser. White-breasted Woodpecker. 
(See Grinnell, Condor xx, 1918, p. 86.) 
8. Selasphorus platycercus (Swainson). Broad-tailed Hummingbird. Restored 
from hypothetical status. (See Swarth, Condor, xvi, 1916, p. 130; Grinnell, Condor, xx, 
1918, p. 87.) 
9. Muscivora forficata (Gmelin). Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. (See Swarth, Con- 
dor, xyit, 1915, p.\203.) 
10. Aphelocoma californica immanis Grinnell. Interior California Jay. (See 
Oberholser, Condor, xix, 1917, pp. 94-95; Swarth, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., xv11, 1918, pp. 
411, 415.) 
11. Aphelocoma californica oocleptica Swarth. Northwestern California Jay. 
(See Swarth, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., xvi, 1918, pp. 411, 414.) 
12. Calcarius ornatus (Townsend). -Chestnut-collared Longspur. (See Grinnell, 
Condor, xx, 1918, p. 87.) 
13. Passerculus sandwichensis savanna (Wilson). Eastern Savannah Sparrow. 
(See Clay, Condor, x1x, 1917, p. 68.) 
14. Passerculus rostratus guttatus Lawrence. San Lucas Marsh Sparrow. (See 
Brown, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, p. 340.) I confess that I should like to see the whole Passercu- 
lus category of sparrows thoroughly revised on the basis of the most careful appraise- 
ment of age, sex and seasonal variation, as well as of geographical variation. 
15. Passerella iliaca monoensis Grinnell and Storer. Mono Fox Sparrow. (See 
Grinnell and Storer, Condor, x1x, 1917, pp. 165-166.) 
