CONTENTS 
Black-throated Gray Warbler Feeding Young 
Two Oregon Warblers (4 halftones & frontispiece) 
Nesting Habits of the Black-headed Grosbeak 
Destruction of Birds by Wires 
A Sandhill Crane’s Nest (halftone) 
Midwinter Birds at Palm Springs, California .... 
The Elf Owl in California 
Nevada Notes 
Mr. E. W. Nelson (portrait and sketch) 
FIELD AND STUDY 
Herman T, Bohlman Frontispiece 
Wm. L. Finley 31 
Anna Head 35 
W. 0 . Emerson 35 
E. R. Warren 39 
.J. Grinnell 41 
Herbert Brown 46 
Wilson C. Hanna 47 
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Notes on the Habits of the Water Ousel (Cinclus mexicanus) J. S. Burcham 50 
Eggs of Flammulated Screech Owl and Western Evening Grosbeak taken in Estes Park, 
Colorado F. M. Dille 50 
California Vulture in San Mateo Co., Cal . . .-. W. K. Fisher 50 
Notes on the Birds of Hoopa Valley, Cal W. K. Fishet 50 
Cactus Wrens Frank Stephens 51 
Dusky Horned Lark in Lake County .... J. Grinnell 52 
EDITOR’S BOOK SHELF. Notices of Silloway’s Birds of Fergus Co., Montana; Snodgrass 
and Heller’s Birds of Galapagos Islands; Oberholser’s Revision of the American Great 
Horned Owls; Oberholser’s Revision of Troglodytes W. K. Fisher 52 — 53 
News Notes 53 
Minutes of Meetings C.S. Thompson 54 
In Re Taylor’s Catalogue D. A. Cohen 54 
Entered January 16, 1903, at Palo Alto, Cal., as second-class matter. 
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