Jan., 191.5 
THE STATUS OF THE ARIZONA SPOTTED OWL 
19 
No. 
Stria; oceidentalis occidental is 
Sex Collection of Locality 
Date 
Wing 
Tail 
1392 
$ 
G. Willett 
Monrovia 
Nov. 
9, 1913 
314 
203 
1394 
$ 
G. Willett 
Monrovia 
Nov. 
3, 1913 
320 
205 
152 1 
$ 
J. Grinnell 
Pasadena 
Nov. 
30, 1894 
321 
197 
1674 1 
$ 
H. S. Swarth 
Pasadena 
Oct. 
22, 1900 
328 
206 
1675 1 
$ 
H. S. Swarth 
Pasadena 
Oct. 
22, 1900 
326 
212 
i 
S 
G. F. Morcom 
San Diego Co. 
Oct. 
11, 1885 
318 
207 
130 2 
$ 
Mus. Hist., Sci. and Art 
Castaic Canyon 
Apr. 
1, 1909 
151 1 
$ 
J. Grinnell 
Pasadena 
Nov. 
30, 1894 
323 
213 
1477 
2 
J. E. Law 
San Dimas Canyon 
Dec. 
9, 1913 
326 
207 
1393 
2 
G. Willett 
Monrovia 
Nov. 
3, 1913 
326 
208 
829 
2 
G. Willett 
Fillmore 
Dec. 
13, 1910 
320 
205 
830 
2 
G. Willett 
Fillmore 
Dec. 
13, 1910 
314 
193 
494 
2 
C. H. Richardson 
Mt. Wilson 
Mar. 
21, 1905 
325 
214 
5589 
2 
F. S. Daggett 
San Dimas Canyon 
Feb. 
14, 1903 
322 
209 
2 
L. H. Miller 
Castaic Canyon 
Apr. 
10, 1911 
213 
131 2 
2 
Mus. Hist., Sci. and Art 
Castaic Canyon 
Apr. 
1, 1909 
1395 
? 
G. Willett 
Monrovia 
Nov. 
3, 1913 
330 
208 
9 
Mus. Hist., Sci. and Art 
Newhall 
May 20, 1906 
. . . 
2 juv. 
L. H. Miller 
Forest Home 
Aug. 
17, 1913 
(3691) 3 
$ 
Strir oceidentalis huaehucae 
G. F. Morcom Huachuca Mts. 
Apr. 
11, 1903 
318 
192 
16876 
$ 
L. B. Bishop 
Santa Catalina Mts. 
July 
7, 1906 
314 
188 
16877 
2 
L. B. Bishop 
Santa Catalina Mts. 
July 
7, 1906 
323 
200 
16878 
$ juv. 
L. B. Bishop 
Santa Catalina Mts. 
July 
7, 1906 
'Specimen not examined in the present connection. 
-Mounted bird; not available for measurements. 
'Type; no catalogue number. Number given is that of the field note book of the collect- 
or, H. S. Swarth. Specimen on deposit at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 
Berkeley, California. 
Los Angeles, California, November 15 , 1914 . 
NIAGARA AT YOUR DOOR 
An Appeal to San Franciscans 
By WILLIAM LEON DAWSON 
W E HAVE all heard of the family which having been resident for fifty 
years at a point seven miles from Niagara, finally scraped enough 
money together to come to California — without ever having seen Nia- 
gara Falls. We are glad they came, of course, and we will not chide them; 
because we are fearful lest they in turn should ask us Californians certain em- 
barrassing questions. Let us see ! 
One afternoon in July, 1912, viz., the 21st, during a three-day sojourn in 
your beautiful city, I was delighted to find that the famous Seal Rocks off the 
mouth of the Golden Gate were thickly populated with a nesting colony of 
Farallon Cormorants. There were five hundred birds, by count, on the shore- 
ward aspect of the largest rock (in delightfully plain view from the portico 
of the Cliff House, as every one knows), and it seemed probable that as many 
more were occupying the seaward slopes. Inasmuch as I had on all former 
occasions beheld these rocks practically monopolized by Steller Sea Lions, I 
was very much interested, and became, naturally, curious as to further devel- 
opments. Not being privileged to follow the fortunes of this notable colony 
