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discover any further trace of them. I have never seen this species alive, blit the size, general 
shape, coloration and the conspicuous white patch on the wing would not apply to any other 
than immature Calamospiza melanocorys — lark bunting — while the strange note which first at- 
tracted hit attention agrees with Mrs. Bailey’s description; viz: a soft hoo-ee, peculiarly sweet 
and given with a rising inflection. 
This is apparently the first record of this bird in Santa Barbara Co., and it is a great pitv 
that a specimen was not obtained. — JosiiPH MailLIARd. 
Washington Notes. — The following notes made by mv brother and myself are, as far as 
we can learn, the first records for these birds breeding in the state of Washington. 
Cinnamon Teal (Querquedu/a cyanoptera). On May 4, 1904, at Kiona, Yakima County, 
Wash. Nest contained six fresh eggs, and was placed on the ground at a short distance from 
some small ponds. Two pairs of birds seen. Collected by J. H. Bowles. 
Northwest Coast Heron (. Ardea herodias fannim). On April 20, 1905, at Sumner, Pierce 
County, Wash. Nest contained four heavily incubated eggs. In a colony of about twenty-five 
pairs. Very large nest made of very small dead limbs, lined with very small twigs. Placed 
eighty feet up in a young fir in a large grove of same situated quarter of a mile from a lake. So 
far as we can learn this is the first recorded set of this subspecies. Collected by J. H. Bowles. 
Cooper Hawk {Accipiter cooperi). During the summer of 1904 two nests containing young 
were found in the vicinity of Tacoma, Pierce County, Wash., by Mr. Bid. L. Currier of Tacoma. 
These are the first records that have come to our knowledge, but on May 20, 1905, another 
nest, containing five fresh eggs was found, placed seventy feet up in a fir tree in densely wooded 
low ground. Collected by C. W. and J. II. Bowles. 
California Cuckoo {Coccyzus amencan us occidental is). On June 1, 1905, in the vicinity of 
Tacoma, Pierce County, Wash. Nest contained two slightly incubated eggs. Nest large and 
well made, being constructed of coarse crab-apple twigs, and lined with moss and fir needles. 
Placed eight feet up in small fir in dense mixed fir and deciduous growth. Collected by C. W. 
Bowles.— J. II. andC. W. Bowles, Tacoma , Has//. 
A Correction. — In referring to Setophaga picta on page 81 of May Condor, I ascribed the 
first known set of eggs to Mr. Stephens's credit. I inadvertantly overlooked W. PI. Bryant’s 
record of a set collected by Mr. Herbert Brown in the Santa Rita Mts., June (>, 1880 (Bull. Nutt. 
Orn. Club, VI, 1881, 176). Mr. Brown’s set was therefore the first. — Harry S. Swarth. 
Nesting of a Hummingbird in a Barn. — Of all the changes in nesting habits that 
have come under my observation none equals that of a hummingbird recently reported by Mr. 
George Luce, one of mv ornithological friends residing at Haywards. In the summer of 1903 he 
found a hummer’s nest attached to a knot of a bale-rope ten feet from the roof of a barn and 
about thirtv feet from the ground. When he observed it the nest contained two young about 
two davs old. He was unable to see the parent bird in order to identify it. — W. Otto Emerson, 
Haywards, Cal. 
Curious Nesting Sites of Western House Wren. -The little brown house wren or 
Parkman wren ( Troglodytes aedon packman i) seems to be showing some preference for steel i 11 
this locality. I11 June, 1904, a pair built their nest in a section of stove pipe eight feet long 
placed on rafters of a chicken house, the end of which was latticed. The nest was eight feet 
from the ground. One end of the pipe was filled up with stnalj twigs, and at the other end was 
the nest proper. It looked as if instinct has taught them to fill up one end of the pipe to keep 
out weazels and rodents. When examined the nest contained six fully fledged young, as George 
Luce informed me. Another nest was placed on a foundation of ten-penny nails in a grain sack, 
which had been hung up on the side of a ranch house within five feet of the ground in plain view 
of anyone passing. I saw the mite of brown feathers flit out of a wee hole in the sack, and on 
looking into it found a nest of the usual wren character. A few twigs had been placed on the 
nails and well lined with birds’ feathers, but no snake skin. Another queer situation for a 
wren’s nest was found in a pocket of an old velvet smoking coat hanging over the rafters of a 
deserted preempter’s cabin. From the appearance of the coat it had been used for several nests. — 
W. Otto Emerson, Howards, Cal. 
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Manuals di OrniTologia Italiana. Elenco descrittivo degli Uccelli Stazionari o di 
Passaggio finora osservati in Italia. Del Conte DoTT. E. Arrigoni Degli Oddi. Con 36 
tavole e 401 incisioni uel testo da disegni originali. Milano, 1904, 16 mo. pp. 163 |- VIII -(- 908. 
Students of Italian birds, particularly those who have not access to the more elaborate works, 
