Sept., 1919 BIRD NOTES FROM OREGON AND CALIFORNIA 207 
One bird August 3, another August 9, two the day following, and one August 20. Also 
seen occasionally in wooded districts between Harney Valley and Klamath Falls. 
Regulus calendula calendula. Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Common in spring at both 
Clear and Malheur lakes. Remained in the latter locality as late as May 15. 
Myadestes townsendi. Townsend Solitaire. One bird seen in junipers near Clear 
Lake April 5, and several more in same locality April 7. 
Planesticus migratorius propinquus. Western Robin. Common breeding bird in 
most sections visited, though rather rare around Malheur Lake in midsummer. 
Sialia mexicana occidentalis. Western Bluebird. Fairly common at Clear Lake. 
Sialia currucoides. Mountain Bluebird. Common in timbered sections throughout 
most of the country traversed. Occasional in brush country around Malheur Lake. 
Los Angeles, California, December 21, 1918. 
THE WILSON SNIPE NESTING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 
By EDWARD WALL 
N the May issue of Tue Convor I note an article by Dr. Barton Warren Ever- 
mann entitled ‘‘ Nesting of the Wilson Snipe in California’’. In this article 
are given all the published records of the nesting of the Snipe in this state. 
Some two or three years ago I was surprised when Mr. J. R. Pemberton in- 
formed me that the printed records showed no eggs of the Wilson Snipe to have 
been taken in this state, and at that time I prepared at his request a short 
statement which I intended to send to THE Conpor; but after discussing the 
matter with other collectors of twenty-five or thirty years ago concluded that 
it was hardly worth while and that Mr. Pemberton was not, perhaps, so well 
informed as he might be on the subject. Now, however, J am convinced that 
for some reason mention of the Wilson Snipe as a regular nesting bird in Cali- 
fornia has been omitted from the published records of earlier days and so am 
appending herewith the original manuscript that I intended to send in. 
My friend, Mr. J. R. Pemberton, informs me that a set of eggs of Wilson 
Snipe (Gallinago delicata) that I gave him some time since has caused quite a 
commotion in the oological world because of the fact that they were collected 
as far south as San Bernardino. I can hardly believe this but he insists that he 
can find no collector of today who has ever heard of the bird nesting at such 
a southerly point and both he and Mr. W. L. Dawson are of the opinion that it 
constitutes a new record. : 
However this may be with the collectors of today, I am certain that the 
old time collectors of a quarter of a century ago will find nothing to be aston- 
ished at in the record, for I personally know of several who have collected not 
only one set but many sets in the days when they were actively at work in the 
field. Personally, I have done little or no egg collecting since along in the 
early nineties, and there was a period of some ten years after that when I did 
not keep in very close touch with the ornithological or oological world and its 
news. Even today, although I have again started collecting an occasional skin 
and keeping a more or less complete record of birds and their movements, I 
have not been able to catch up with the progress that has been made during 
the interim. From 1887 ‘to 1893 I was actively engaged in egg- 
