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Vol. XVI 
In January, 1905, he went to Arizona, spending February and October 
near Tucson and the months between in the Huachuca Mountains. There he 
added the Salvin Hummingbird to the avifauna of the United States. The 
winter saw him again at Witch Creek, and the following spring he joined a 
party under Mr. W. W. Brown, Jr., on a collecting trip to Guadalupe Island 
and other islands off Lower California. The hardships of this trip were too 
great for his enfeebled constitution; but he felt so much better after another 
summer and fall at Witch Creek that February, 1907, saw him again at Tucson. 
This time he visited the Santa Eita and Chiricahua Mountains ; but the alti- 
tude, climbing, and lack of comforts told rapidly on his strength, so that by 
September he was obliged to return to Witch Creek. 
This was the last time he left California. During the following year he 
made trips to various parts of this State, collecting more or less extensively in 
Humboldt, Mendocino, Yolo, Siskiyou, Tehama, Colusa, Solano, Merced, Kern, 
San Mateo and Monterey counties. At Sherwood, in Mendocino County, in 
1908, he added the Chestnut-sided Warbler to the birds known to occur in 
California, and at Eureka the following year, the Alaska Longspur. Soon 
after he decided to make California his home, he joined the American Orni- 
thologists’ Union and the Cooper Ornithological Club, and enjoyed the friend- 
ship of those members of the latter that his travels allowed him to meet, and I 
think he left friends wherever he went. He was a delightful companion. No 
one could meet him without appreciating his absolute sincerity, or become 
acquainted with him without liking him. His letters showed he had much inter- 
est in the Cooper Club, but diffidence prevented his contributing frequently to 
the pages of The Condor. He felt his true vocation lay in collecting and pre- 
paring beautiful specimens, not in writing about them. Occasionally notes by 
him may be found in The Condor, as enumerated at the end of this article, 
but that is all. 
Thus the years passed in an almost constant struggle against ill-health, 
and in loneliness tempered by his interest in his work. Early in November, 
1913, he left Witch Creek on what proved to be his last trip, and, after a couple 
of months at Colusa, reached Pacific Grove in January. There, on the 17th 
of February, 1914, he added the Horned Puffin {Fratercida corniculata) to the 
list of California birds, and only nine days later, his long contest with sick- 
ness and loneliness ended, passed into a “sleep that knows not breaking, morn 
of toil, nor night of waking.” 
The following articles appeared from the pen of Henry W. Marsden: 
Aerial Battle of Red-tailed Hawks, Buteo borealis calurus. Condor, vii, 1905, p. 53. 
Feeding Habits of the Lewis Woodpecker. Condor, ix, 1907, p. 27. 
Chestnut-sided Warbler at Sherwood, Mendocino County, California. Condor, xi, 
1909, p. 64. 
Alaska Longspur at Gunther’s Island, Eureka, California. Condor, xii, 1910, p. 110. 
New Haven, Connecticut, June 23 , 1914 . 
NOTES ON A COLONY OP TRI-COLOEED REDWINGS 
By JOSEPH MAILLIARD 
A lthough some years ago I described a breeding colony of Tri-colored 
Redwings {Agelaius tricolor) located near an artesian well in Madera 
County, California, I have been so much interested in another colony 
