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CONTENTS 
Frontispiece: Long-billed Dowitchers Feeding 
W. Leon Dawson 
4 
The Shore Birds of Santa Barbara (with three photos by J. H. Bowles) 
J. Hooper Bowles and Alfred B. Howell 
5 
Through Tahoean Mountains (with three photos by Oluf J. Heinemann) 
Milton S. Ray 
12 
A Visit to Nootka Sound (with four photos by the author) 
H. S. Swarth 
15 
Some Birds of Southwestern Montana (with one map) 
Aretas A. Saunders 
22 
Birds of a Mojave Desert Oasis 
Chester Lamb 
32 
FROM FIELD AND STUDY 
Bobolink Again in Idaho 
L. E. Wyman 
41 
Rare Takes for San Mateo County, California 
Chase Littlejohn 
41 
Wood Ibis near Long Beach 
J. E. Law 
41 
Another Eastern Fox Sparrow in Southern California., 
Alfred B. Howell 
41 
The American Merganser at Lake Tahoe 
J. E. Law 
42 
Concerning Nesting Sites of the California Jay 
fohn W. Mailliard 
42 
Editoriae Notes and news 
43 
PuBEicATioNS Reviewed >. 
43 
Constitution of the Cooper Ornithoeogicae Ceub 
47 
Minutes of Cooper Ceub Meetings 
50 
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