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verbenas or abronias and other acres were flaming with tlie yellow annual encelias. 
Insect life fairly swarmed and birds, especially Leconte thrashers and mocking- 
birds, were more numerous than before or since. I found eight Leconte’s nests on 
one trip near Palm Springs and saw many of tlie birds. The next three years 
were dry on the desert and 1 saw only six nests, though frequently in their territory. 
Banning, California. 
MR HARRY C. OBERHOLSER 
Mr. Oberhol .ser is well known to the readers of this magazine, as the author of 
a valuable series of critical papers on omit hological subjects. His work may be 
said to have begun with “A l)escrii)tion of Two New Subspecies of the Downy 
Woodpecker” which appeared in 1S95, followed in iSqdl))- "A Preliminary List of 
the Birds of Wayne Co., Ohio. Perhaps liis best-known revisions are: ‘‘A Re- 
view of the Wrens of the Genus 'Phryomanes” (1899) and “A Review of the Larks 
of the Genus Otocoris” (1902). Mr. Oberholser is responsible for a long list of 
papers, which, for the most part, have appeared in The Auk. and in the Proceed- 
ings of the U. S. National Museum. 
