CONTENTS 
The Nesting of the Spotted Owl (with seven photos by the author) 
Donald R. Dickey 193 
Henry W. Marsden Louis B. Bishop 202 
Notes on a Colony of Tri-colored Red-wings Joseph Mailliard 204 
Bird Notes from the Sierra Madre Mountains, Southern California 
- H. Arden Edwards 207 
A Study of the Status of Certain Island Forms of the Genus Salpinctes 
H. S. Swarth 211 
A Survey of the Breeding Grounds of Ducks in California in 1914 (with nine 
photos by the author) Harold C. Bryant 217 
A Method of Cleaning Skulls and Disarticulated Skeletons F. Harvey Holden 239 
EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 242 
PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED 242 
MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS. 243 
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