CONTENTS 
Adaptability in the Choice of Nesting Sites of Some Widely Spread Birds 
(with three drawings by the author) Clarence Hamilton Kennedy 65 
Nesting of the American Osprey at Eagle Lake, California (with four photos) 
Milton S. Ray 70 
Notes on Murrelets and Petrels (with three photos by L. Huey and A. Hiller ) 
Adriaan van Rossem 74 
Birds of a Berkeley Hillside (with fourteen photos on seven figures) 
Amelia Sanborn Allen 78 
A Forty Acre Bird Census at Sacaton, Arizona M. French Gilman 86 
Some Park County, Colorado, Bird Notes (with two photos) 
Edward R. Warren 90 
FROM FIELD AND STUDY: 
Franklin Gull: A New Record for California J. E. Law 96 
Scott Oriole at San Diego in the Fall Franlc Stephens 96 
Early Nesting of the Texas Nighthawk William Leon Dawson 96 
A Curious Set of Gambel Quail Eggs (with photo) F. C. Willard 97 
The Breeding of the Snowy Egret in California..Wi?Ziom Leon Dawson 97 
Additional Records of the California Clapper Rail and Red Phalarope 
in California Tracy I. Storer 98 
Red Phalarope in the San Diegan District I. D. Hokes 98 
A Two Hours’ Acquaintance with a Family of Water Ouzels 
Harold C. Bryant and Amy M. Bryant 98 
Notes from the Sea-coast of Southern California ..Leon Lloyd Gardner 99 
Peculiar Nesting Site of Anthony Towhee (with photo) 
Wright M. Pierce 100 
The House Finch as a Parasite :D. I. Shepardson 100 
Pink-footed Shearwater on the Coast of Washington 
William Leon Dawson 101 
Another Record of the White-throated Sparrow for California 
Margaret W. Wythe 101 
European Widgeon in Washington J. H. Bowles 102 
The California Shrike in Montana; — A Correction . ...Aretas A. Saunders 102 
A Winter Record for the MacGillivray Warbler L. E. Wymarl 102 
California Condor in Los Angeles County , W. Lee Chambers 102 
New Winter Records for Arizona George Willett 102 
EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 103 
COMMUNICATION: A National Bird Census E. W. Nelson 104 
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