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cs long, and that Short-taHed Albatrosses breed on islands ofif the Coast of Alas- 
ka, and that the ^^''esteln Savannah Sparrow is "a slightly ])aler form of the pre- 
ceding (said pieceding being", according" to the book, Pooccctcs gyauiineiis cou- 
fiiiis), and show ns pale pink Crossbills and Jenny Wren Dippers and California 
Jays without any blue in their plumage, all in the name of daily bread, whv, 1 say, 
it is time for censorshij). 
It is a i)oor compliment to our Western intelligence that this sort of slush is 
offered to our public, and offered too in the name of a reputable publisher, Dou- 
bleday, Page & Co., forsootii. Are we so provincial, are we so unsophisticated, 
are we so jejune that any old thing will go with us? Perhajis we do deserve our 
fate. 'I'he undiminished sales of a certain one volume flexible known as “The 
Pirds of California" would seem to point that way. We would best munch our 
biscuit meekly and retire to our kennel to doze until such time as some one shall 
arise among us with wit enough and conscience enough and courage to prepare 
an accurate pocket guide to western birds. We have asked for bread and they 
have given us, if not a' stone, at least a raw con"ipound of meal and gravel. 
A SECOND LIST OF THE BIRDS 
OF THE BERKELEY CAMPUS 
By JOSEPH GRINNELL 
Contribution from the University of California 2ilusenni of Vertebrate Zoology 
O N JANLAR\ 28, lyii, the writer of the present paper jtublished* a nomi- 
nal list of the "Birds of the Berkeley Campus", together with a brief state- 
ment of the avi faunal conditions in the area under consideration. 
For two reasons it has seemed advisable to publish a “Second List"'h Fir.^t, 
because the early exhaustion of the 500-separatc edition of the first list evidenced 
a local need for a folder of this sort, both in the University and in the public 
schools of Berkeley and Oakland ; and second, because since the appearance of 
the 1911 list many additional siiecies have been seen on the Campus and much de- 
tailed information has been gathered, not only bv the writer himself, but also by 
several well-ciualifled observers, who kindly placed their notes at his disposal. 
The L’niversity of California Campus, the area considered in this pajier, com- 
prises about 530 acres rising from an elevation of 200 feet at its western edge 
in the citv of Berkeley to a height of 1300 feet at its eastern boundary near the 
crest of the Berkelev hills. Cutting down from these hills are several ravines or 
canyons. Pleading in the larger of these ravines, StravvTerrv Creek courses in a 
general westerly direction through the whole length of the Campus. 
Within its 530 acres the Campus furnishes shelter to birds of widely varying" 
associational preferences. The hills from a distance look bare and untirnbered save 
for interrupted tracts of newly-planted pine and eucalyptus. But these real!)' 
well-grassed hill-slopes constitute a favored haunt of a distinct category of birds, 
of which the Meadowlark is a characteristic example. The chaparral, or brush, is 
of two distinct types ; one, of which the commonest plant is a dark-foliaged, woody 
composite { Baccharis) , is wide-spread on some of the upper slopes, and the other, 
consisting of snow-berry, hazel and brake, on north-facing and shaded slopes. In 
the up]3er part of Strawberry Creek basin are several clumjis of madronas, while 
* Reprint from the University of California Chronicle, vol. xiii, no. 1, 4 pages (unnumbeted). 
An edition of 1000 reprints of the present paper is issued. 
