May, 1910 
RECORDS FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA 
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white markings about the head are present and nearly as sharply defined as in the 
male, but the dark areas they enclose are brown as in the female, mixt with some 
black markings. This black mottling is produced by individual feathers being 
parti-colored, brown and black, and not by scattered, wholly black feathers. Those 
areas which are steel blue in the male are darker, approaching the brown of the 
female. The scale-like markings of the lower breast and abdomen are sharply 
defined, but the coloration of these parts is much less intense than in the male bird, 
the buffy yellow being of a very pale shade, and the red of the abdomen mostly 
replaced by white. The crest is intermediate in size and shape between those of 
average males and females. Unfortunately the bird was not sexed. It is apparent- 
ly an adult, that is in second winter plumage at least, for the primary coverts, 
which are not molted by the young bird the first fall, are of the adult type. 
Glaucidium gnoma gnoma. Pigmy Owl. Three juveniles (no. 10342 ? , 
no. 10343 & , no. 10344 $ ) taken from a nest in a dead pine tree in Bear Valley, 
San Bernardino Mountains, California. These were secured on June 28, 1894, the 
female parent having been shot the day before (no. 23 collection of H. S. Swarth). 
The young birds have lost the natal down, except where a few filaments cling to 
feather tips, and are in the juvenal plumage, but with stubby wings and tail. The 
body plumage is much as in the adults, but the top of the head is plain drab gray, 
in markt contrast to the brown dorsum, with a few partly concealed white spots on 
the anterior portion. There are some slight, apparently sexual, differences observ- 
able. The two young females are of about the same size, and are appreciably 
larger than the male. In the former the brown of the upper parts is of a more 
reddish cast, approaching Vandyke brown, while in the latter it is darker, more 
nearly Prout brown. 
The day before the young owls were secured one of the parent birds was seen 
entering the nest cavity bearing a Chipmunk ( Eutamias ) in its claws, and the 
remains of the Chipmunk were found in the stomachs of the young birds. The 
old bird secured had its stomach filled to distention with the shells of grebe eggs, 
which it had pickt up in our camp (the nest was located in close proximity to our 
camp ground), these eggs being a staple in our larder at the time. 
This record may be of some interest, as the species appears to be of rare 
occurrence in summer in the mountains of southern California. It is not included 
in Mr. Grinnell’s recently publisht list of birds of the San Bernardino Mountains. 
Atthis morcomi. Morcom Hummingbird. One of the two specimens on which 
the description of species was based was in the Judson collection, and is now no. 
10299 in the bird collection of this Museum. No additional examples have turned 
up since the species wrns first described (see Ridgway, Auk xv, 1898, 325), and 
it seemed worth while to put on record a statement of where this specimen was 
located. 
Cynanthus latirostris. Broad-billed Hummingbird. One specimen, an adult 
male, from the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona, April 14, 1896 (no. 10286). 
This bird was taken on the east side of the mountains, near the mouth of Bear 
Canyon, where the species was fairly common at the time. A nest containing one 
egg was found the same day. 
Ammodramus savannarum bimaculatus. Western Grasshopper Sparrow. One 
specimen, male, Highland Park, Tos Angeles County, California, August 10, 1897 
(no. 10089). 
Amphispiza nevadensis canescens. California Sage Sparrow. Adult female, 
head of Big Tuhunga Canyon, Tos Angeles County, California, August 4, 1895 (no. 
