CONTENTS 
Adult Male Mearns Quail (frontispiece), painting by Leon Pray 38 
Distribution and Moft of the Mearns Quail (with one map and two photos) 
H. S. Swarth 39 
The Popular Names of Birds Jonathan pwight, Jr ., M. D. 43 
Nest of the Dusky Poor-Will ( Phalcenoptilus nuttalli californicus) (with one photo) 
Joseph Mailliard 45 
Notes on the California Black Rail Frank Stephens 47 
Among the Thrashers in Arizona (with one photo) M. French Gilman 49 
Notes on Partis rujescens in Western Washington J. H. Bowles 55 
Observations on some Birds found in Southern Mexico Austin Paul Smith 57 
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Chestnut-sided Warbler at Sherwood, Mendocino County, California 
Henry IV. Marsden 64 
An Ancient Murrelet at San Pedro, California Howard Wright (A 
Nest of the Toliuie Warbler (with one photo) Joseph Mailliard 65 
The Status of the Hutton Vireo in Southern California 
* J. Grinnell 66 
The Early Western Surveys Junius Henderson 67 
Winter Observations in Oregon Earle Stannard 68 
Sterna caspia in Los Angeles County C. B. Linton 68 
A Correction A. H. Felger 68 
Dendroica townsendi in Pasadena Walter P. Taylor 69 
The Zone-tailed Hawk in California J. Grinnell 69 
That Co-operative Scheme R. B .Rockwell 69 
Random Bird Notes from Chaffee County, Colorado John W. Frey 70 
Unusual Wave of Western Tanagers Ernest Adams 70 
Editorial Notes 71 
Publications Reviewed ; 71 
Minutes of Cooper Club Meetings 75 
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