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Owens Valley, June 14, 1891; Belding 
has recorded it at Camp Seco, Calaveras 
County, on June i; and, as elsewhere 
stated, I saw one on San Clemente Is- 
land, May 31, 1897. The latter was, 
without doubt, a lone straggler. The 
other three cases, however, might seem 
to indicate breeding localities. Numer- 
ous accidents may happen to maim in- 
dividuals slightly, enough however to 
prevent extended migration flights. It 
seems to me probable that some such 
factor caused the delay in these cases. 
I am reminded of a casualty that 'often 
befalls the Cedar birds at Pasadena. 
The telephone and electric wires are 
strung along the streets in close webs, 
sometimes right through the foliage of 
the shade trees. The waxvvings fly in 
compact flocks in and out among the 
trees, and several individuals are not in- 
fre(|uenth' crippled or killed at one 
time by flying against the wires. At 
any rate, it remains that we have no re- 
cord of the waxwing'’in California be- 
tween June 16 and vSeptember 13. 
The Cedar Waxwing appears to be a 
common summer bird northward along 
the Pacific Coast from Oregon to south- 
ern British Columbia. John.son, in the 
“American Naturalist” for July, 1880, 
gives it as an abundantsummer resident 
in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, 
where he says it ne.sts extensively in 
the groves of small Douglas spruce. 
J. S. Bu chain tells me that he knew of 
a pair nesting near Salem. Anthony, 
in the “Auk” for April, 1886, states it to 
be common throughout the summer at 
Beaverton, Oregon; as recorded by 
Belding, it was first seen there on May 
22 and was common by June 7. At 
Burrard Inlet, B C., it was first seen by 
Fannin on May 24, and was common by 
June 2; it is also stated to breed in the 
same locality. Cooper found it nesting 
at Fort Vancouver. The wax wing 
thus seems to be absent altogether dur- 
ing the winter from these northern re- 
gions, where it arrives quite late in the 
spring. In fact, the dates of departure 
from Southern California and arrival in 
Oregon and British Columbia, fit very 
neatly together. The waxwing in the 
eastern states is a notoriously late 
breeder, and the peculiarity seems to 
hold in the west akso. 
To sum up: The Cedar Wax wing on 
this coast is a migratory species, breed- 
ing in the Humid 'fransition Zone of 
Oregon, Washington and British Colum- 
bia, and wintering in the Upper and 
Lower Sonoran Zones of Southern and 
Lower California. 
J0.SEPH Grinneui.. 
Stanford Universitv. 
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The Painted Redstart. 
N EARLV twenty years have passed 
since Mr. Win. Brewster gave in 
“The Auk” a description of the 
first nest and eggs found of the Painted 
Redstart {Setophaga picta'). This nest 
was found in the Santa Rita Mountains 
which are thirty miles di.stant from Tuc- 
son. I well remember reading the ac- 
count back in the early days of my col- 
lecting. Little did I think then that it 
would ever be 1113’ pleasure to follow in 
the footsteps of our earlier naturalists, 
in going over the same trails, camping 
on the same camp-sites and renewing 
old records, besides making a few new 
ones. 
I have made three trips to the Hua- 
chuca Mountains andtwointo the .Santa 
Ritas. Today I ran across the above 
description and very naturall}' m3' mind 
runs back over my own experiences 
with this beautiful bird. I first met the 
species in the S.anta Rita Mountains, 
shooting two birds from among the 
tangled growth at the edge of a clear 
scream of water. The same year (1897) 
I found them in the Huachuca Moun- 
tains and took a nest and four eggs. 
The ne.st was situated among the 
roots of a small oak tree growing near 
the foot of a hillside. The nest con- 
tained three fresh eggs and two da3'S 
later it contained but one additional 
egg. The set was then taken as com- 
plete. I have since found six or seven 
