July, 1904 
THE CONDOR 
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are plentiful here. They have taken their winter food from the live oak of the foothills {Quercus 
ivislizeniy, now they feed largely from manzanita buds. On February 10, I heard a noise which 
sounded like coo, coo, coo, and after a search I found a road-runner perched up in the branches 
of an oak tree. I recognized it as the author of the sounds I had heard. I suppose this is one of 
its love songs. 
One of my young friends informed me that he saw a bird sitting in a nest at the eave of his 
house on the 23d of December, 1901. January 13 he looked in the nest and found four eggs nearly 
ready to hatch. Two weeks later they were hatched and gone. He informs me also that this 
same nest contained three broods of five birds each last summer. I think the bird is the Say 
phoebe {Sayornis saya). A friend of mine saved a nest of a hummingbird, probably Calypte 
anna, which had been built upon a small loop of rope, which was attached to one of the rafters of 
a shed. The nest was made of spiders’ webs, and two young were hatched August 2, 1901, but 
they died. My friend at the same ranch reported finding a complete set of dove’s eggs (Zenai- 
dura macroura) February 27, 1902. — W. F. Dean, Three Rivers, Cal. 
note:s and nhws 
We have just received a letter from Mr. Grinnell dated Mt. Pinos, June 26. He says: "Here 
I am, on the slopes of Mt. Pinos, a state of existence which I have longed for, for many moons. 
And I am not disappointed either, in the wildness of it, nor in the animals so far secured, though 
there is a lamentable lack of water. We have been just ten days from Pasadena, loitering in .An- 
telope Valley and Tejon Pass en route. To-day I climbed to the top of the peak and had a fine 
iew of the country all about, Tulare Lake, Sierra Nevada, Mojave Desert and the ocean. We 
are camped at 6300 feet.” We shall leave the “animals” for Mr. Grinnell to detail later, as they 
are an interesting lot. 
Mr. Edmund Heller writes from Juchitan, Oaxaca, .Mexico, under date of April 23d: “Since 
writing you before, our instructions have been modified and we are now collecting both mammals 
and birds for the department of taxidermy. For the last month we have been at work on the 
dry side af the isthmus, in a country resembling in fauna and flora the deserts of California and 
Arizona.” Mr. Heller is making natural history collections for the b'ield-Columbian Museum. 
Mr. J. O. Snyder has left for an extensive fishing trip through the Klamath and Goose Lake 
Basins of southern Oregon. 
The last of May we received a notice of the Spring Outing Aleeting of the .Southern Division, 
but have since heard nothing of the meetiiig itself. By the way, is the Secretary of the Southern 
Division on a protracted vacation? We have not received official minutes since March 1903. 
We have heard unofficially that an .Audubon Society has been organized in Pasadena, but 
have received no word from headquarters. Mr. .Scott Way is secretary. 
Mr. Hubert O. Jenkins has left for Mt. Whitney, to be gone the rest of the summer. 
.About the middle of the summer Mr. Malcolm P. .Anderson e.xpects to sail for China, where 
he will be engaged, for the next three years, in collecting mammals for the British Museum. 
Mr. R. B. Moran is camping in .Santa Barbara county, 
Mr. W. W. Price is located at his summer camp, Glen .Alpine, Tallac, California. 
Mr. P. M. Silloway is in the vicinity of Bigfork, Montana, for the summer. 
The Thirteenth Supplement to the .American Ornithologists’ Union Check-list of North 
American Birds, issued with the July Auk contains among others the following important 
changes and additions. Dendrayapits obscuriis sierrcc Chapman is added; Ryctala Brehm becomes 
Cryptoglaux Richmond; Sayornis nigricans dropped; Corviis anicricanus C. 
hrachyrhynchos; Scolecophagiis Swainson, preoccupied, becomes Eiiphagiis Cassin; . Lstragaliniis 
psaltria hesperophilus Oberholser is added (SW. U. .S.); Pipi/o fuscus carolcc is dropped; J.aniiis 
ludovicianus tnearnsi Ridgway (San Clemente Id.) is added; liiidytes flavus alascensis Ridgway 
is added; Heleodytes brunneicapiUus is replaced by PI. b. couesv, Bcco/ophiis inornatus restrictus 
Ridgway (vicinity of San I'rancisco Bay) is added; Phyllopseustes Meyer becomes Acanthopneustc 
Blasius; Dendroica cestiva brewsteri, and Helcodyles brunneicapiUus anthonyi are rejected. Pas- 
serculus rostratus halophilus\s,^Qy\\\a\^ntX.o P. r. guttatus xrx summer plumage. The Ptiliogo- 
natiuEe, Mimiiue, Sittinte and Chamseinse are raised to family rank. 
