Nov., 1913 
IDENTIFICATION BY CAMERA 
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At the time these photographs were taken there were eleven of the Lesser 
Yehowlegs present on our Estero, and they were ro be found in varying numbers 
for about two weeks thereafter. They proved to be rather timorous on all oc- 
casions but especially so when incited to ilight by the Killdeers, which were al- 
ways bossing them about. In moving to and fro across the Estero they usually 
paid little attention to their own kind and were as ready to join a bevy of Long- 
billed Dowitchers or Northern Phalaropes or the solitary Greater Yellowlegs 
B'ig. 58. Lesser Yeleow-legs in company with Northern Phalarope (at left) 
AND Western Sandpiper (the smaleest bird of the three): photograph 
TAKEN ON the Estero near Santa Barbara, Caeifornia, August 16, lOi.t. 
shown herewith, as to hunt up their proper fellows. The duet recorded in this 
critical picture lasted but a moment, for upon the instant of discovery 1 swung 
upon them with the Graflex as one would level a gun and at the “report'" of the 
shutter they were off like rockets. And as they Hew they made outcry in two dif- 
ferent keys of Totanine indignation, the notes of these two species lieing even 
more distinct as a measure of difference than the relative size of their bodies. 
SOME CURIOUS NESTING PLACES OF THE ALLEN HUMMING- 
BIRD ON THE RANCHO SAN GERONHIO 
By JOSEPH MAILLIARD 
WITH ONE photograph BY THE AEITHOK 
T he three nests of Allen Hummingbird {Sclasphonis allcni) shown in 
the accompanying photograph are of especial interest on account of the 
peculiar choice of location, all three being inside of buildings more or less 
in use. As it was impossible to photograph them in situ, on account of want of 
light and, in two cases, because of their inaccessibility as far as a camera was con- 
