Sept. , 1915 SUMMER RESIDENT LAND BIRDS OP MONTEREY COUNTY 
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Pipilo maculatus falcifer. San Francisco Towhee. Noted on the upper slopes of 
Santa Lucia Peak and commonly all over the coastal slopes. Is a common resident. 
Pipilo crissalis crissalis. California Brown Towhee. Rather common bird through- 
out the region in both the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 
Passerina amoena. Lazuli Bunting. Noted at Jolon and on the coastal slopes 
where it was often seen in the dryer brush patches. Jenkins speaks of it as rather 
mere common than we observed it to be. 
Zamelodia melanocephala capitalis. Pacific Black-headed Grosbeak. Noted on the 
upper slopes of Santa Lucia Peak and in the pine forests along the summit of the coastal 
mountains at the head of Big Creek. Jenkins met it commonly in many localities. 
Passer domesticus. English Sparrow. A common bird around the little town of 
Jolon, though not noted away from settlements. 
The following list of the winter visitors noted on the winter trip of Pember- 
ton and Anderson gives a further idea of the character of the region. 
Sphyrapicus varius richer or daggetti. Red-breasted Sapsucker. 
Planesticus migratorius propinquus. Western Robin. 
Ixoreus naevius naevius. Varied Thrush. 
Regulus calendula grinnelli. Sitka Kinglet. 
Sialia currucoides. Mountain Bluebird. 
Anthus rubescens. American Pipit. 
Bombycilla cedrorum. Cedar Waxwing. 
Dendroica townsendi. Townsend Warbler. 
Sayornis sayus. Say Phoebe. 
Passerculus sandwichensis sandwichensis. Western Savannah Sparrow. 
Zonotrichia coronata. Golden-crowned Sparrow. 
Passerella iliaca iliaca. Fox-colored Sparrow. (See Condor, x, p. 50.) 
Passerella iliaca meruloides. Yakutat Fox Sparrow. 
San Francisco, J une 6, 1915. 
FROM FIELD AND STUDY 
Range of the California Clapper Rail. — While reading recently Mr. Wells W. Cooke’s 
excellent bulletin on the North American Rails (Bull. U. S. Dept. Agric. no. 128), my 
attention was attracted to the fact that the range of the California Clapper Rail ( Rallus 
obsoletus ) as given in this bulletin was very much circumscribed and did not include the 
sloughs radiating from Monterey Bay. 
It is a well known fact among working ornithologists in this immediate section that 
Elkhorn Slough, Tembladero Slough, and other salt water marshes tributary to Monterey 
Bay are regularly but rather sparingly inhabited by these birds. They are constant 
residents of the sections that they frequent. My friend, Mr. A. G. Vrooman of Santa 
Cruz, has a set of eggs taken a few years ago by his sen near Elkhorn, Monterey County, 
— a small siding on the line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, Eggs have also been 
taken near the same place by Mr. Thomas Hudson of Watsonville. 
These records extend the range of this Rail some eighty miles to the south and, 
taken in connection with the Humboldt records of this bird as given by Mr. Tracy I. 
Storer in the Condor for March, 1915, give it a considerably wider range than would 
seem to be indicated in Mr. Cooke’s bulletin. — O. P. Silliman, Castroville, California. 
Bird-study Out-of-doors in European Schools. — The Sacramento Chamber of Com- 
merce City* Planning Committee brought here, Dr. Hegemann, German City Planning 
Expert. He suggested obtaining a volunteer to study European City Planning, including 
nature study methods. This citizen brought from Europe some interesting photographs. 
The one presented herewith (fig. 70) shows the Royal Hunting Lodge in the Copenhagen 
Deer Park, with blind school students enjoying a nature study outing. 
The report states that nature study field excursions in Europe are as far in advance 
