THE CONDOR a 
A Magazine of Western Ornithology 
Published Bi-Monthly by the Cooper Ornithological Club 
Entered as second-class matter February 12, 1908, at the post-office at Los Angeles (Hollywood 
Station), California, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 
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Issued Wasi 6, 1919 
CONTENT S 
Some Notes on the Egg of Aepyornis maximus (with four photos).............--..... 
PNET CD nM MR OOD SRI Stu CREM TURAN S SoA SILER MESS Una RA ay alll aL Wm. C. Bradbury - 97 
autobiographical Notes (with portrait) ............- Henry Wetherbee Henshaw 102 
A Return to the Dakota Lake Region (continued)....Florence Merriam Bailey — 108 
Malcolm Playfair Anderson (with portrait).. ....-....2..--...--- Melville B. Anderson 115 
Description of an Interesting New Junco from Lower California..............-......-. 
Harry C. Oberbuiae 119 
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FROM FIELD AND STUDY: 
Nesting of the Wilson Snipe in California....Barton Warren Evermann 121 
Records of Larus neerannt with White Primary Coverts...............----.--- 
Malic AR etl OE eekveeae var RCS PRN IN Neh Mee Te SUB era ANG amie SS Rib Carl L. Hubbs 121 
An Albino Black-chinned’ Hummingbird.................... Harry ©. Oberholser 122 
Relative Abundance of Ducks in the Rio Grande Valley....Aldo Leopold 122 
The California Shrike Probably Mates for Life.................... John G. Tyler 122 
Another. California Record of the Bendire oe ee PORE MONS SDR IBN 
Wright M. Pierce 123 
Gray Cyeieon Taken in Oregom.....1-... 0020000 4.0-2--2 te. Stanley G. Jewett 123 
Fea midomi: INOt@si i352 ee ee la Ne PRI aae oe i 2G Ek ot ae Frank Stephens 123 
A Supposed California-taken Trumpeter Swan..................-. J. H. Fleming 124 
Bubo virginianus subarcticus in North Dakota........ Harry C. Oberholser 125 
The Caracara in) Californian...) 309 el ee aes Harold Heath 125 
The Fly-catching Habit among Birds............2..2...2.2..----------- Tracy I, Storer. 125 
Arctic Tern from Laguna Beach, California................ Wright M. Pierce 
Large Set of Eggs of the Canada Goose........ Barton Warren Hvermann 
The Whistling Swan in Arizoma....--...2f..2220..s eee W. B. Mershon 
Some Notes from San Diego, Califormia................-....... Ravan ue eH G. Willett 
A Recent Record of Mycteria americana in the San Joaquin Valley........ 
EE SEAM ENS ted AU MRW IC ERTE LNG SANSONE NG NINA MOUS tN Cul fae Ss eS A John G. Tyler 
California Gulls Eat a riieeomede ya CSCO A COM Ee Aki Oats Harold C. Bryant 
Miscellaneous Stomach Examinations.......... ee Lm Wright M. Pierce 
Aechmophorus occidentalis in Lower California in’ Summer...3 ae 
VUE APE ON MARU ANNEDT KOMBAT CAI llr kartleles ued IP ells ALD OMA Harry C. Oberholser 
Sea Parrots Washed up on Beach at Bureka............... Franklin J. Smith 
Notes on the Weights and Plumages of Ducks in New Mexico................ 
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The Summer Tanager in California_...................... RUGS AM WV Loye Miller 
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