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16. Passerella iliaca brevicauda Mailliard. Yolla Bolly Fox Sparrow. (See Mail- 
liard, Condor, xx, 1918, pp. 138-139.) 
17. Pipilo maculatus montanus Swarth. Mountain Towhee. (See Grinnell, Con- 
dor, xx, 1918, p. 87.) 
18. Vermivora virginiae (Baird). Virginia Warbler. (See Grinnell, Condor, xx, 
LOLS peel os) 
19. Vermivora celata orestera Oberholser. Rocky Mountain Orange-crowned 
Warbler. (See Oberholser, Auk, xx11, 1905, p. 244; Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., no. 11, 1915, 
p. 146.) 
20. Telmatodytes palustris aestuarinus Swarth. Suisun Marsh Wren. (See 
Swarth, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, pp. 310-811.) 
21. Sitta carolinensis tenuissima Grinnell. Inyo Slender-billed Nuthatch. (See 
Grinnell, Condor, xx, 1918, p. 88.) 
22. Penthestes gambeli inyoensis Grinnell. Inyo Mountain Chickadee. (See Grin- 
nell, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., xv11, 1918, pp. 506, 510.) 
23. Hylocichla guttata polionota Grinnell. White Mountains Hermit Thrush. 
(See Grinnell, Condor, xx, 1918, pp. 89-90.) 
With these 23 additions the total number of birds for California comes to 564. We 
are still decidedly behind Texas, with its 605 species and subspecies (see Oberholser, Con- 
dor, x1x, 1917, p. 68); but we are steadily catching up!—J. GRINNELL, Museum of Verte- 
brate Zoology, Berkeley, California, December 20, 1918. 
A Northern Record of Mimus polyglottos leucopterus.—On the 28th of July, 1918, 
while returning by auto from a reconnaissance trip in Humboldt County, Nevada, we en- 
countered two Western Mockingbirds on Duck Flat, at a point some miles northwest of 
Sunkist (formerly Duck Lake), Nevada. The occurrence was so unusual that I stopped 
the car and made sure of the birds’ identity. The birds were straggling at some distance 
apart and appeared to be working their way slowly northward, fluttering from clump to 
clump over a luxuriant growth of sage. The record station is well above the forty-first 
parallel of latitude, and not more than six miles east of the California boundary line.— 
Wi1LLIAM LEoN Dawson, Santa Barbara, California, December 4, 1918. 
Sapsuckers and Hummingbirds.—In early June of this year (1918) I was collecting 
in the Moose Mountain District (southeast corner of Saskatchewan). This is a hilly dis- 
trict, thickly wooded, with numerous lakes and sloughs, surrounded by flat prairie—an 
“oasis in the desert”. Near Fish Lake, each side of the trail, were a few birch trees 
among the poplars. I noticed that Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers (Sphyrapicus varius) had 
peen at work on one of the birch-trees; some five or six rows of holes were made about 
twelve feet from the ground. As I looked at this tree, a Ruby-throated Hummingbird 
(Archilochus colubris) came to it, hovering in front of, and probing, the holes, feeding on 
the sap. I had never seen colubris thus feeding, and stayed at the spot a couple of hours 
to make observations. , . 
Shortly a male Sapsucker came to the spot, drove away the hummingbird and 
commenced to feed, followed by the female who drove away her mate. Sitting partly 
hidden by the underbrush close to this tree, I noted that a hummingbird came, on an 
average, every ten minutes, a sapsucker every half hour. As I needed specimens of 
this usually scarce species, as well as desiring to know if it was the same two or three 
birds which were being attracted to this feeding place, I took (with .22 shot:cartridges) 
six hummingbirds, four males and two females; but still others came to feed as before. 
This was between 8 and 10 a. M. Passing the spot on my way back about 5 P. m., I saw 
another, but had no time for further observations. Examination of the birds taken 
showed no signs of minute insects, but considerable clear liquid came from the mouth, 
which satisfied me the hummingbirds were actually feeding on the sap.—H. H. MircHer., 
Provincial Museum, Regina, Saskatchewan, October 25, 1918. 
Western Golden-crowned Kinglet in Los Angeles——On November 27 of this year 
(1918), I picked up in my yard in the city of Los Angeles an adult male Western Golden- 
crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa olivaceus). From time to time during the past five 
weeks, the notes of this species have been heard in the locality, but no view of the birds 
was obtained until the above date when three times during the mcrning a small] flock of 
them visited the premises, feeding in oak and sycamore trees. The elevation here is 500 
feet above sea-level and constitutes the lowest point at which I have ever observed the 
species so far south as Los Angeles.—Loyr MI.Lurer, State Normal School, Los Angeles, 
December 10, 1918. 
