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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XI 
Two Records from Eastern Kansas. — While Mr. Chas. 1). Bunker and myself were col- 
lecting birds on Washington Creek, eight miles southwest of Lawrence, Kansas, November 7, 
1908, we secured a single specimen of the Lewis Woodpecker ( Asyndesmus lewisi) . The bird was 
in an oak tree near an old cabin when Mr. Bunker first saw it. He did not recognize it and shot it, 
wounding it. The bird flew across a field to the edge of some timber, as I came around the 
cabin, and I knew it at once. We followed and after a short search discovered the bird, motion- 
less, on the side of a tree, and secured it. It was an adult female in full plumage. The length in 
the flesh was 266 mm. 
On January 9, 1909, we took an adult female Western Robin (Planesticus migratorius pro- 
pinquus) from a tree in a hedge, two miles south of the University at Lawrence, Kansas. It was 
a cold foggy day, and several other robins of the eastern variety were taken, this one however 
being alone. 
Both of these birds were mounted and are now in the collection of the Kansas State Universi- 
ty Museum at Lawrence. — A lex Wetmore, Denver , Colo'rado. 
Some Unrecorded Species from Los Coronados Islands, Mexico. — This spring (April 
.3 to 10, 1909) while collecting on the Coronados, off San Diego, with J. B. Dixon, we secured 
the following birds new to the Islands. 
Circus hudsonius. Marsh Hawk. One female taken" April 6. 
Aluco pratincola. Barn Owl. One was flusht April 9 from a crevice in the cliffs. 
Asio wilsonianus. Long-eared Owl. Dixon flusht one from a low bush on North Island, 
April 7. 
Speotyto cuniculariajiypogcea. Burrowing Owl. One female taken April 8. 
Selasp/wrus alleni. Allen Hummingbird. Very common all the week. 
Tyrannus vociferans. Cassin Kingbird. A pair stayed about camp for four days. 
Icterus bullocki. Bullock Oriole. One male taken; others seen. 
Dendroica auduboni. Audubon Warbler. Very common. 
Catherpes mexicanus conspersus. Canyon Wren. One taken. — A. van Rossem, Pasadena, 
California. 
The English Sparrow in Santa Barbara. — I returned to .Santa Barbara a few days ago, 
after an absence of two months, and find today (July 13) a flock of English Sparrows ( Passer 
domesticus ) in and about the garden of the Potter Hotel. I have never before seen them here. — 
Bradford ToRREY,.S'tf//2'a Barbara , California. 
Notes on the Nesting of the Western Martin. — A colony of Western Martins ( Progne 
subis hesperia) have made their summer home under the eaves of the Hotel Maryland of this 
city, each year for the past four seasons. The birds are regular summer visitants to the moun- 
tains six miles back of Pasadena where they may be seen most any day in the early summer 
months; but they are uncommon in the surrounding country outside of the colony mentioned. 
This colony is on a principal thorofare, at a liight of 60 feet above the street, and is inaccessible. 
The nests are built in the holes in the concrete trimmings under the broad extended eaves. The 
year of their arrival brought only a few birds, but each succeeding summer the numbers have 
increast until now the colony numbers about thirty pairs. As my observations have been entire- 
ly with the western form of this species I do not know whether this is a comparatively large or 
small colony, but it is of interest here from its unusual situation. — PiNGREE I. Osburn, Pasa- 
dena, California. 
The Knot in Southern California. — While duck-hunting at Anaheim Landing, Orange 
County, California, October 3, 1909, I noticed a good-sized sandpiper flying up one of the sloughs 
immediately behind a small flock of Western Willets. The former was secured and has since 
proved to be a male Tringa canutus, kindly identified by Mr. J] Grinnell. — CHESTER C. Lamb, 
Los Angeles, California. 
