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Bchoes from the Field. 
Stragglers in Southern California. The prediction of a cold winter is being verified 
in Southern California by an unusually large migration of water birds this fall, 
among them being many stragglers not often seen, and a few not heretofore re- 
corded. Among the latter I have had brought to me for identification, a specimen 
of Ross’s Snow Goose, {Chen rossii), shot at the Bolsa Chica Club grounds near 
Newport, Cal., by Dr. A. Fenyes, Nov. 10, igoo. It was flying in company with 
an American White-fronted Goose which was also secured, no other geese being 
in the vicinity. On Nov. 28 Mr. E. R. Hull brought me a pair of Old-squaws 
{Harelda hyemalis) shot at the same place. They were flying together over a 
blind when one was dropped, the other circling back to meet the same fate. 
The Ross’s Snow G"Ose and the Old-squaw are both additions to Mr. Grinnell’s 
‘List of Birds of the Pacific Slope of Los Angeles Co., Cal’., which also includes 
the western part of Orange Co. A flock of about 125 American White Pelicans 
flew over the city Nov. 25, one being secured at long-range by a high-power rifle. 
Of recent ^^ears only flocks of a dozen or so have been noted. All of the birds se- 
cured and noted above liave found their way into my collection. 
Frank S. Daggett, Pasadena, Cal. Nov. 28, 1900. 
The Alaskan Yellow Warbler in California. Three specimens of Dendroica (estiva ruhi- 
ginosa are recorded b)^ Oberholser {Auk XIV^, Jan. 1897, p. 78) as taken by Mearns 
at Mountain Spring, San Diego County, May ii, 1894. Mr. W. O. Emerson has 
recently sent me three skins, undoubtedly referable to I'ubiginosa, taken by him 
at Hay wards, October 4 and 7, 1898, and Sept. 14, 1900. These are readily di.s- 
tinguishable from fall skins of Dendroica (estiva nwrcomi, the usual Yellow Warbler 
of California, by larger size, darker dorsal surface, and a well-marked buft'y tinge 
on the under parts. The Alaskan Yellow Warbler may therefore be looked for 
during the spring and fall migrations at about the above dates. 
Jo.SErH Grinnell, Palo Alto. Cal. 
Further Tape Worm Observations. It seems peculiar that more birds have not been 
discovered to be “free boarding-houses” for tape-worms. Mr. Belding’s article in 
the July-Augnst (1900) Condor surprised me, inasmuch as I had never consider- 
ed tape-worms of unusual rarity in birds, having found them in quite a number of 
species, as follows: — Lophortyx californicits. — About three 3^ears ago while hunting 
in Monterey Co., I examined a great many quail, and at least one-third of them 
had tape worms from 2)4 to 4 inches long. The birds were all full-grown and the 
parasite existed in the intestines. Buteo borealis calnrus. — In October, 1897 I ex- 
amined a Redtail which had a tape-worm in the intestines. It was about eight or 
ten inches long. Zenaidura niacroiira. — In July, igoo I killed a female Mourning 
Dove which had a very long tape-worm in the intestines. She was extremely 
emaciated and had an egg in the oviduct almost ready for extrusion. The worm 
was wound around and around and the intestines plainly showed the hermaphro- 
dite as it sqinned about in them. Erisniatura riibida. — While at Morro I removed 
the intestines of several “wiretails” which contained tape-worms. The worms 
were about two feet long and the birds were nearly all very thin. Spatula 
clypeata and D tpla acuta. — Killed one Shoveller and one “sprig”, each showing a 
tape-worm. Both birds were much emaciated. Melanerpes f. bairdi. — In 1897 and 
1898 I killed several of these woodpeckers with tape-worms in their intestines. 
Will collectors kindly attein])t to add to this li-st? Tape-worms may be much 
more common in birds than we suspect, and careful dissection may result in dis- 
coveries we do not expect. Ch.\.s. vS. Thompson, Paso Robles, Cal. 
