CONTENTS 
Sea Gulls at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (with twenty-one 
photos by the author) , Joseph Mailliard 41 
Characteristic Birds of the Dakota Prairies IV. On the Lakes 
Florence Merriam Bailey 54 
The Farallon Rails of San Diego County (with four photos by Donald R. 
Dickey and the author) Laurence M. Huey 58 
The Nutcrackers of Yellowstone Park M. P. Skinner 62 
A Chapter in the Life History of the Wren-tit (with two photos by Tracy 1. 
Storer ) Walter C. Newberry 65 
The New Museum of Comparative Oology William Leon Dawson 68 
Notes on Some Land Birds of Tillamook County, Oregon .. ..Stanley G. Jewett 74 
PROM FIELD AND STUDY: 
A Note on the Food of the Western Robin Aretas A. Saunders 81 
Slight Extension of Range of San Diego Titmouse J. Eugene Law 81 
Nature of the Occurrence of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak in Humboldt 
County, California C. H. Gilbert 81 
Additional Notes on the Birds of Kootenai County, Idaho ..Henry J. Rust 81 
Plumage of the Young Male Red-shafted Flicker... .Aretas A. Saunders 82 
Concerning Vernacular Names of Passer domesticus....H. H. Mitchell 82 
Auburn Canyon Wren: an Objection A. B. Howell 82 
A New Fly-trap W. Lee Chambers 83 
Mexican Ground Dove at San Diego Henry Grey 83 
An Early Record of American Scoter for California .Chas. W. Richmond 83 
Mexican Ground Dove, Western Grasshopper Sparrow, and California 
Cuckoo at Escondido, San Diego County, California..Josep7i Dixon 83 
Ring-necked Duck near Corona, Riverside County, California 
Wright M. Pierce 85 
Odd Performance of a Flicker with a Malformed Bill J. Eugene Law 85 
The Old-squaw in West-central California... John W. Mailliard 85 
Additions and Changes to the Summer Birds of Flathead Lake, Mon- 
tana Aretas A. Saunders 85 
Nesting of the Western Bluebird at Ventura, California 
Ralph Arnold and J. R. Pemberton 86 
The Belted Kingfisher Wintering in Fresno County John G. Tyler 86 
EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 87 
PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED , 88 
MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 90 
Entered as second-class matter February, 1908, at the post-office at I,os Angeles (Hollywood 
Station), California, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 
Issued from the Office of The Condor, First National Bank Building, Hollywood, California 
MEETINGS OF THE COOPER ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 
Southern Division : At the Museum of History, Science, and Art, 
Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Time of meeting, 8 p. m., the last Thurs- 
day of every month ; or on the Tuesday evening preceding, when the last 
Thursday falls on a holiday. Take south-bound car from town ; on Spring 
Street, the car marked “University”, on Hill Street the car marked “Ver- 
mont and Georgia”. Get off at Vermont Avenue and Thirty-ninth Street. 
Walk two blocks east to Exposition Park. The Museum is the building 
with the large dome. 
Northern Division: At the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Uni- 
versity of California, Berkeley. Time of meeting, 8 p. M., the third 
Thursday of every month. Take any train or car to University Campus. 
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology is a large corrugated iron building 
situated on the south side of the campus immediately north of the foot- 
ball bleachers. 
