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tions made by the writer on Catalina Island during the first seventeen days of March, 
1919, it has been thought that the following notes might be worth recording. Unfor- 
tunately permission was not had to do any shooting on the island, and specimens could 
not be taken. The subspecific identity of four of the following birds has therefore not 
been established. 
At least one, and probably two, Sparrow Hawks (Falco sparverius subsp.) were 
seen on numerous occasions about Avalon and on the terraces overlooking the town, and 
on March 9, three of these birds were seen on a ten-mile walk toward the upper end of 
the island. On this same walk, about five miles from the town, a Pigeon Hawk (Fdaico 
columbarius subsp.) was seen at close range. 
The Sapsucker whose work is so much in evidence on the trees in and about Ava- 
lon was caught at his drilling on two occasions, both within the town itself, on the 15th 
and 16th respectively, and proved to be the Red-breasted (Sphyrapicus ruber ruber). 
On the 10th a flock of perhaps twenty Juncos (/Junco hyemalis subsp.) was noted 
high up the slopes back of the town in a very brushy place where the going was bad. The 
birds were positively identified as Juncos, but a close enough view was not had to war- 
raut even a guess as to the form. 
A Hermit Thrush, supposedly the Alaska (Hylocichla guttata gultata), was ev- 
erywhere common, from the beach to the top of the ridge, and no place on the island was 
visited where these birds could not be found scattered about in numbers. They were by 
far the most numerous land-bird observed during the entire seventeen days. 
Three Western Robins (Planesticus migratorius propingquus) were seen on the 6th 
in the orchard of John Brinkley (Chicken John), whose attention was called to them and 
who stated that in a twenty-eight year’s residence on the spot he had not before noticed 
the bird. Two residents of Avalon reported Robins in their door-yards on the same day, 
and remarked on the unusualness of seeing Robins on Catalina. 
A scattered flock of between thirty and forty Western Bluebirds (Sialia mexicana 
occidentalis) was under observation from March 5 to 10 on the beautiful golf course back 
of the town. These birds also proved to be curiosities to some of the natives. A Sharp- 
shinned Hawk was seen to attack this flock repeatedly. The Bluebirds apparently left 
during the night of the 10th, as they were searched for over the entire lower end of the 
island and none was met with after that date—Harry Harris, Kansas City, Missouri, 
April 18; 1979. 
Notes from Southern California.—Additional records of the Baird Sandpiper 
(Pisobia bairdi): September 10, 1918, I found two of these birds on the beach near Del 
Rey, Los Angeles County. One, a female, was secured. More than three weeks hater, on 
October 4, a lone male was taken in the same immediate locality. Was this mere coinci- 
cence, or is it fresh material for the mated-for-life theorists? The rarity of the species 
on this coast, and the circumstances under which these birds were taken, certainly sug- 
gest a mated pair, of which, one being killed, the remaining bird lingered in the same 
locality until it, also, was collected. 
Lewis Woodpecker (Asyndesmus lewisi) in the San Bernardino Mountains: One 
taken on Deep Creek, and one at Big Bear Lake, September 19 and 22, respectively, 1918. 
Likely the species is of regular occurrence in thexe mountains, but I know of no pub- 
lished records. 
White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis): A bird of this species came reg- 
vlarly to a feeding-table at the home of Mrs. W. H. Martz, 5166 Hollywood Blvd., Los An- 
geles, where I examined it leisurely at a distance of about twenty feet. It was first noted 
late in November, 1918, and seen almost daily until some time during the following Feb- 
ruary, always in company with a flock of Gambel Sparrows, which never allowed the 
other to feed until they were sated. 
Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon lunifrons) me Phainopepla (Phainopepia nitens) 
on Santa Catalina Island: A flock of about twenty Cliff Swallows was noted on May 12, — 
1918. This, I believe, constitutes the first record for the Island. The Phainopepla was — 
seen on the 14th of the same month, this record being the earliest but not the first pub- — 
lished one of the species. 
Baird Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pelagicus resplendens): A dead bird on the 
beach near Hyperion, January 6, 1919, is the only one of the species I have found during 
