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about thirty trees were examined for possible nests and that only 55 minutes was spent 
in the examination of the above nests, a process which involved the carrying about 
and placing of a very large and cumbersome ladder. — G. K. Snydeb, Los Angeles, Cali- 
fornia. 
White-throated Sparrow in Oregon.— On April 27, 1913, I shot a male White-throated 
Sparrow {Zonotrichia alMcollis) at Mulino, Clackamas County, Oregon. This is appar- 
ently the first record for western Oregon and the second for the state. — Alex. Walker, 
MuKno, Oregon. 
The Lewis Woodpecker Nesting in Alameda County, California. — On June 12, 1914, I 
found a nest and pair of Lewis Woodpeckers (Asyndesmus lewisi) between Pleasanton 
and Niles, Alameda County. I was attracted to the nest by the female bird which began 
calling when I came in sight. She had in her bill what looked like a large black beetle. 
The male did not come around for about ten minutes, but when he did come, the two 
did not make much further noise The nest was located in a solitary sycamore tree 
about forty feet above the ground in a dead limb. This tree was in the creek bottom 
within a thousand yards of the Grant Gravel Company’s plant. — L. P. Bolander, Oakland. 
California. 
The English Sparrow as Occurring in Northwestern Montana. — I should like to 
make one addition to my list of birds of northwestern Montana, published in the last 
Condor. Through my habit of omitting the English Sparrow from most of my bird 
notes, I find that I neglected to mention it in the manuscript. Not wishing to convey 
the impression that any county in Montana is free from this bird, I hereby supply the 
proper information, as follows. 
Passer domesticus. English Sparrow. Abundant in all towns along the railroads 
in both Teton and Lewis and Clark counties. Small flocks also occurred in Choteau, 
Bynum and Augusta before these towns had railroad connections. Railroads have been 
built to all of these towns very recently (1913), and it is probable that the species 
will greatly increase in the near future. — Aretas A. Saunders, West Haven, Connecti- 
cut. 
Eye-color of Juncos: a Correction. — I find the birds I called Junco plioeonotus dor- 
salis, on page 116 of the May Condor, are Junco phoeonotus caniceps. 
We only had the 1910 Check-List, and Bailey’s Hand-Book, with us in the field, and 
could not decide which subspecies the brown-eyed bird was, eventually deciding on 
dorsalis largely on account of the range as given in the Check-List. 
Ridgway’s Manual, however, proves all my birds to be caniceps, which he rightly 
gives full specific rank. — Allan Brooks, Okanagan Landing, B. C. 
Early Arrival of the Ash-throated Flycatcher in the San Diegan District. — The ob- 
servation of an Ash-throated Flycatcher (Myiarchus cinerascens) in Los Angeles, Cali- 
fornia, on March 15, 1914, affords what is probably the earliest date of arrival of the 
species in this region. The bird was seen in a pepper-tree bordering the sidewalk, in 
the southwestern part of the city, on Normandie, near Santa Barbara Avenue. — H. S. 
SwARTH, Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles, California. 
Unusual Abundance of the Glaucous-winged Gull on the Coast of Southern Califor- 
nia. — During the winter of 1913-14 the Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens) was 
unusualy plentiful along the coast of Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. 
Although, during ordinary winters, immature birds of the species are rather frequently 
seen along our coast, adults are usually so far from plentiful as to call for at least a 
second glance from the bird observer. During the past winter, however, both adults 
and immatures were abundant at least as far south as San Diego Bay, where I noted 
many individuals March 13, 1914. On several occasions during the winter months I 
found the species numerous in San Pedro Bay and along the government breakwater at 
that place. — G. Willett, Los Angeles, California. 
The Eastern Sea Brant in California. — On January 30, 1914, there was added to the 
list of the game birds of the state a new species, for on that date there was secured near 
Bird Island on Areata Bay, Humboldt County, a specimen of the Eastern Sea Brant, 
Branta bernicla glaucogastra. This goose, an adult male, was shot from a flock of 
Black Sea Brant {Branta nigricans) by West Dean of Eureka. A splendidly made study 
skin of this bird was prepared by Mr. Franklin J. Smith ,of Eureka; and the owner, Mr. 
Otto Feudner of Oakland, California, generously donated it to the California Museum 
of Vertebrate Zoology where it hears the number 24588. — H. C. Bryant, University of 
California, Berkeley, California. 
