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eggs, advanced incubation, and one with three fresh eggs. All were about two feet up 
in wire grass and made of coarse flat weed stems and lined with fine light-colored 
grasses, loosely put together. 
The name “Salt Marsh” Yellowthroat given this species appears rather misleading- 
in that one might infer it inhabited the salt marshes exclusively, while on the contrary 
Carriger and I have found it most abundant along fresh-water lakes and streams and in 
wet meadow land. In fact we have no spring or summer record of it in the salt marshes 
of San Mateo County, while we found it a rather common nester in certain localities 
about fresh water a mile or so west of them. Chase Littlejohn writes: “This yellow- 
throat is found commonly about the marsh here (Redwood City, San Mateo County) 
during the fall, and less commonly during the winter. In the spring a few are about but 
soon disappear. They do not nest on the salt marsh, but at one place where the ground 
is springy and covered with willows they nest among the weeds and tules that are half 
fresh and half salt water plants, as very high tides reach quite a distance into the wil- 
lows where they grow at the very edge of the salt marsh. All other nesting sites that I 
know of are some distance inland about moist or swampy ground.” 
Our single exception to this is Carriger’s finding a nest of this bird with four eggs 
in a salt marsh north of San Rafael, April 12, 1914. This, however, was high ground and 
scarcely subject to overflow. In view of the fact that a bird is seldom given a vernacu- 
lar term referring to the locality it inhabits unless it be its summer home, Carriger and 
I suggest that the term “San Francisco”, referring to the San Francisco Bay region 
which it inhabits, be used instead of “Salt Marsh”. 
95. Artthus rubescens. American Pipit. Carriger and I have noted this bird in the 
late spring. 
96. Mimus polyg lottos leucopterus. Western Mockingbird. A Mockingbird remained 
in the gardens about San Jose Avenue and 25th Street, in the Mission district, during 
the late spring in 1906. It was possibly a released cage bird. (See Condor, viii, p. 76.) 
97. Thryomanes bewicki spilurus. Vigors Wren. Rather common, but nests found 
have been few. April 15, 1911, at Lake Merced, Carriger located a nest in a hole in a 
sand bank with five eggs in an advanced stage of incubation. Jesse Klapp also notes 
finding a nest in Golden Gate Park. 
98. Telmatodytes palustris paludicola. Tule Wren. Rather common at Merced 
Lakes. On April 30, 1911, Carriger and I opened two nests, one holding three fresh eggs 
and the other five eggs with incubation advanced. On July 23 of the same year we 
noted another nest with three eggs, incubation advanced; also a nest with four eggs in 
like condition, July 4, 1912. 
99. Penthestes rufescens barlowi. Santa Cruz Chickadee. While the Barlow 
Chickadee is quite a common resident, neither Carriger nor I have located a nest north 
of the San Mateo County line. Dudley S. De Groot writes of three nests found in Golden 
Gate Park as follows: “A nest found April 7, 1916, which contained six badly incubated 
eggs lying in a thick bed of rabbit fur, was located eight feet up in a hole in the side of 
a log cabin. Another was in a small cavity fifteen feet up in a eucalyptus and contained 
young almost ready to fly. The third nest was remarkable for its situation, being placed 
in a pipe leaning against an out-building. The nest was about one and a half feet down 
the pipe, which was only three inches in diameter, and contained, in very cramped 
quarters, young birds about half grown.” Jesse Klapp also notes it as nesting in the 
park. 
100. Planesticus migratorius propinquus. Western Robin. Dudley S. De Groot 
found a nest of the Robin in Golden Gate Park fifteen feet up in a patch of bushy young 
bamboos. It was the usual structure of grasses and mud mixed with considerable string. 
When found, May 21, 1916, it contained two full-fledged young. Jesse Klapp is, however, 
I am quite sure, entitled to the credit of being the first to find this bird nesting in our 
County. I noted at least 3000 Robins one spring evening of the present year on the grassy 
lawns in the Park Buffalo Paddock near the beach. 
The following notes refer to birds previously recorded by me in the list published in 
the Condor of March, 1906. 
1. Fulica americana. American Coot. Carriger and I can record some unusually 
late nests. July 4, 1911, one egg, pipped; July 23, 1911, four nests, three with seven eggs 
and one with eight, all apparently fresh and incomplete. These were all at Lake Merced. 
