May, 1913 
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were identical with the normal species. The set measures 1.07 x .75, 1.06 x 
.75, .81 X .59, .75 X .59. 
A trip was taken on June ii to Deerington’s, on the summit near Hhillips’ 
vStation. It was late in the afternoon when I reached the lonely little cabin about 
which the ground still lay hidden beneath deep snow. On the following day a 
nest of the Western Robin {Plancsiicits migraioriiis propiuqiitis) and a nest of 
the Sierra Junco {Jiiiico oreganiis thiirberi) were found. That of the robin 
was noteworthy only in that it contained a runt egg. The set of three eggs meas- 
ures 1. 18 X .78, 1. 16 X .81, .97 X .75. The nest of the Junco was placed under a 
a little overhanging shelf of earth made by a snow-brook and composed of weed 
stems and grass and lined with horse and other mammal hair. It held four 
slightly incubated eggs. So well concealed was it that it would have remained 
undiscovered had not the sitting bird fluttered off. 
The following morning two more nests of the Western Robin were found, 
one with three fresh eggs, the other with the unusual comjflement of tlve, well 
along in incubation. The nests were placed in pine and fir trees and deep snow 
lay beneath them. Near the cabin I observed a Western Tanager {Piraiiga ludo- 
viciana ) engaged in building a nest forty feet up in a tall lodgepole pine. As the 
ornithological prospect, owing to the lateness of the season, did not ap])ear favor- 
able, however, I availed myself of an opportunity to ride back to Bijou, which 
I reached early in the afternoon. 
On June 15 along the lake shore near Bijou, a nest of the Spotted Sand- 
piper {Actifis macularius) was found with three eggs well advanced m incuba- 
tion. The nest was placed among wire grass, and was a slight depression lined 
with grasses and stems. Mr. Richard Duttke found another nest of this bird in a 
like situation during the first week of July, of which he secured a photograph. 
Two nests of particular interest, being the first of this species I had 
found on the floor of the valley, were noted on June 19. These were of the Sierra 
Hermit Thrush {Hylocic/ila guttata seqiioicJisi.s) , and both were placed in 
thickets of lodgepole pine saplings eleven feet up. One held four eggs about 
to hatch, the other four half growm young. These were the first nests of this 
bird I have found below^ 7000 feet altitude. On June 21 prejrarations were made 
for the trip to Washoe Lake, Nevada, wdfich has already been described in a 
previous number of The Condor. 
NOTES FROM BUENA VISTA LAKE AND FORT TEJON 
By CHESTER LAMP, and A. BRAZIER HOWELL 
O N JUNE 6, 1912, we left Los Angeles by automobile for a visit to Buena 
Vista Lake, situated in Kern County, and for old Fort Tejon, in the Tejon 
Mountains. Considerable interest is attached to the latter place, because it 
is the type locality of several of our birds, and because of the extensive work done 
there by Cooper, Xantus and others. 
Shortly after noon on the 7th we arrived at the lake. The intervening time 
will not be itemized as it was filled in mostly with tire trouble, owing to our 
having failed to carry proper supplies of the appropriate kind. The lake, some 
thirty miles southwest Oif Bakersfield, we finally reached after having been mis- 
directed half a dozen times. On the east side it is flanked by a high levee, and 
