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evidence, continually moving about and calling. This bird was shot within the range of the 
campfire light, at 10 o’clock in the evening of September 28, 1912. It proved to be a female, 
with its crop gorged with the fresh remains of a Pigmy Owl {Glaucidinin gnoma pinicola). 
One foot, leg, and a mass of feathers was swallowed entire, and bid fair to produce severe 
injury, as two of the claws had already pierced the crop and the skin of the throat, allow- 
ing the contents to ooze forth. 
A similar instance is recorded by C. H. Richardson, Jr. (Condor, viii, 1906, p. 57), in 
which a Spotted Owl was found to have dined on a Pigmy Owl, and considering the rarity 
of both species, the coincidence is remarkable. — Frank S. Daggett. 
A Specimen of Bendire Thrasher in the San Diegan Region. — On September 10, 
1912, Mrs. Harriet Williams Myers placed in my hands a live bird which had proven a puz- 
zle to her in her attempts to identity it. The bird had been picked up helpless in a street 
of the Garvanza district of Los Angeles, California, near the hills between that city and 
Pasadena, and despite her most painstaking care had failed to mend. It was turned over to 
me as of possible interest, and proved to be Toxostoma bendirei (Coues). 
The specimen was submitted in final appeal to Messrs. Grinnell and Swarth of the Mu- 
seum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley, wbo consider it a juvenal of the year, just molting 
into first winter plumage. Mr. Grinnell raises the question of possible artificial introduc- 
tion as a caged bird, a natural question in view of the sedentary habit of the species in its 
normal habitat. The superb musical powers of the species would make it a desirable cage 
bird, but, in a somewhat extensive collecting experience over southern Arizona, although 
1 found Cardinals and House Finches used in this way, the thrashers never were. 
With the consent of Mrs. Myers the specimen is deposited in the University of Califor- 
nia Museum of Vertebrate Zoology where it is catalogued as No. 23259. — Love Mii.ler. 
Birds New to the Vicinity of Lake Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai County, Idaho. — 
Colymbus nigricollis calif onticiis. Adult specimen examined October 9, 1912. 
Gavia Imnnie. Young female specimen examined October 6, 1912. 
Oidemia perspicillata. Adult male specimen examined October 9, 1912. 
Bubo virginiantis arcticus. Two adult specimens examined October 8, 1912. 
Falco mexicaniis. Fine specimen examined November 6, 1912. Not new in this locality 
but very scarce. — H. J. Rust. 
White-throated Sparrow in Western Washington. — -On October 13 I had the good 
fortune to collect a female White-throated Sparrow {Zonotrichia albicollis) at Sherlock, 
Thurston County, Washington, the first record, I believe, for any point on the Pacific Coast 
north of Oregon. This bird was with a big flock of Z. /. iiuttalli, which had begun to arrive 
the previous afternoon. This migration was an odd occurrence in itself, as all the local 
breeding Nuttall Sparrows had left several weeks before. — J. H. BoweES. 
Some Late Nesting Notes from the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona. — On Jidy 29, 
while locating a site for a wood cutter’s camp I heard the “wdiip-popper” note of a Palmer 
Thrasher {Toxostoma curvirostrc palmeri), and on looking into the only cholla in sight 
found the nest and two fresh eggs. Tw’o weeks later the latter had hatched, and during Sep- 
tember and October I saw the young birds frequently about the camp, whenever I hap- 
pened out there. 
September 1 I was in Ramsay Canyon for a few hours, and from force of habit, spent 
part of the time looking around a bit. On the lard bucket bail wbich 1 had hung up m the 
identical place from which I had taken my set of Blue-throated Hummingbird {Cyanolaemus 
clemcnciae) , previously recorded in The Condor, I found a new nest and two well feathered 
young. A week later, they were still in the nest but almost able to fly. Tbeir backs showed 
the green shades very nicely, and there was a slight darkening on the throat of one, some- 
what in the nature of specks. I took photos of them, hanging the nest down in the light for 
that purpose. They fluttered out as 1 took them down, but remained quiet after being re- 
placed. 
October 4, my uncle, Mr. F. N. Wolcott, while deer hunting, flushed a Band-tailed 
Pigeon {Columba f. fasciata) from its nest in a small oak. The one egg was fresh. I tried 
to locate the place a week later but found only an empty nest which may or may not have 
been the one he saw. — F. C. Willard. 
More Band-tailed Pigeon Notes. — On a recent trip to San Luis Obispo I gathered 
