CONTENTS 
Live Oak Studded with Acorns, the Work of the California Woodpecker 
Photo by Dr. A. K. Fisher Frontispiece 
An Acorn Store-house of the California Woodpecker Walter K. Fisher 107 
A Nest of Empidonax difficilis in New Mexico (with one photo) 
Florence Merriam Bailey 108 
Among the Flathead Birds P. M. Silloway 109 
Nesting Sites of the Desert Sparrow (with one photo). . . .Florence Merriam Bailey in 
About Collecting Chests (with one cut) Frank Stephens 112 
Birds Observed in the Krenitzin Islands, Alaska (with one map) 
Richard C. McGregor 114 
A List of Birds Collected Between Monterey and San Simeon in the Coast Range of 
California (with one map) Hubert 0 . Jenkins 122 
FROM FIELD AND STUDY 
Contopus virens in Colorado Edward R. Warren 130 
Scott Orioles at San Diego Kate Stephens 130 
Some Items in the Diet of California Shrikes Kate Stephens 130 
The Note of the Golden-crowned Sparrow (wtih two cuts) Anna Head 130 
NOTES AND NEWS 131 
MINUTES OF CLUB MEETINGS 132 
Entered as second-class matter May 4, 1906, at the post office at Pasadena, California, 
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 
Issued from The Office of The Condor, 871 No. I.ake Ave., Pasadena, Cal. 
WANTED 
Eive Birds and Animals 
of the West 
Particularly California Condors, Cin- 
namon Teal and other Ducks, Mountain 
Quail, Pacific Eider Ducks, Black Brant, 
Swan, Etc. 
Eggs of the above named species 
desired for hatching. 
DR. CECII, FRENCH 
718 Twelfth St., N. W., Washington, D.C. 
SOUTHERN AND MEXICAN BIRDS’ 
EGGS. — In choice cabinet sets with full and 
accurate data, for sale very cheap or to ex- 
change. The largest and most valuable collec- 
tion in the South, and a corps of competent 
collectors. Sea-shore sets a specialty. Stamp 
for list. Satisfaction guaranteed. Dr. M. T. 
ClECKLEY, 457 Greene Street, Augusta, Ga. 
WANTED — Mammal skins (with preference 
for the Eutamias group). Can offer in ex- 
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— W. L. Burnett, 128 N. Sherwood St., Fort 
Collins, Colo. 
LARGE COLLECTION of birds’ eggs, nests, 
etc., cost over two hundred dollars, now twen- 
ty-five dollars ($25.00). — S. Taylor, Berkeley , 
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