Nov., I got. 
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The California Least Vireo. 
1!Y JOSEPH GRmNEEI.. 
As compared with skins from Arizona and southern Lower California, a series 
of Least Vireos from California (Tulare, Pasadena and Pomona) agree in begin 
grayer dorsally and whiter beneath. The rump and sides are not distinctly 
greenish and there is no pectoral buffy suffu.sion. These differences seem to me 
sufficient to warrant recognition. The California form may be called 
Vireo pusillus * albatus. 
TYPE — No 961, Coll. J. G.; $, ad.; Pasadena, California; iVpril 25, 1896; col- 
lected by J. Grinnell. 
DESCRIPTION — Upper surface almost uniformly smoke-gray; top of head faint- 
ly hair-brown, and back with a scarcely perceptible olive-buff tint. Lower parts 
continuously pure white; sides faintly washed with olive-buff. Greater wing- 
coverts distinctly white tipped; median coverts gray-tipped; wings and tail edged 
with whitish. Lores and eye ring wliilish. Length 127 mm; extent 178; wing 55; 
tail 56. 
* .Ymon^: a series of 40 .specimens examined, I c.in tiiul no evidences of intergradation between PV/v’o pusillus and 
I '. belli. 
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Notes on San Luis ’Obispo County Birds. 
Botaiiriis leutiginosus. American Bit- 
tern. While camping at Morro in July 
and August 1900, I several times saw 
birds which I took to be of this species, 
but as no specimens were secured I was 
not positive. However, in NoVember of 
the same year I took several, thus 
making the record positive. The birds 
were fairly common and spent most of 
their time in the tules. 
Nycticora.x n. ntzvius. Black-crowned 
Night Heron. On April 13, 1897 I saw 
two of these birds at Paso Robles, one 
of which I collected. It was a male in 
spring plumage and quite fat. This is 
the only time I have met this heron in 
the Upper Salinas Valley. 
Rissa tridactyla pollicaris. Pacific 
Kittiwake. March 22, 1899, a bird was 
brought to me alive, which had been 
captured in a plowed field six miles east 
of Pa.so Robles and probably 25 miles 
from the ocean. I kept it in the zoolog- 
ical laboratory of the High School for 
several days, where it ate frogs, clams 
and other provender. Finally it was 
taken away and I kept it at home for 
about ten days when it pined away and 
died April 6. I skinned the specimen 
and compared it with another at Stan- 
ford University and concluded it was 
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Rissa t. pollicaris, and later it was posi- 
tively identified by Mr. Joseph Grinnell. 
The bird was an immature female and 
was badly infested with mallophaga. 
Mr. Grinnell informs me that this is one 
of the few records of the Pacific Kitti- 
wake for California. 
Ch.vs. S. Tiro-WPSON. 
Stanford University, Cal. 
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Recent Records of the fulvous Tree Duck 
for Southern California. 
{ AM indebted to Rev. F. Reiser for 
a fine male specimen of Dendrocygna 
fiilva taken under very unusual con- 
ditions. While hunting rabbits in the. 
Big Santa Anita wash Sept .16, 1901 
he made out “a strange animal” moving 
rapidly among the bowlders in the dry- 
est jaart of the wash miles from water. 
It proved to be a Fulvous Tree Duck; 
the bird was much emaciated and had 
no doubt, from weakness, settled there 
from a passing flock. 
Mr. J. S. Torrance reports a flock of 
twenty about the grounds of the Chico 
Bolsa Gun Club near Newport, Sept. 
25. October 10 a specimen in fine 
plumage was shot in the San Gabriel 
river bottom near Whittier. This bird 
also was much emaciated. 
Frank S. Daggett. 
Pasadena, Cal. 
