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A Philadelphia vireo was an interesting September visitor. We found 
him enjoying the grapes put out on the grass and those growing on the 
vines. He thrust his sharp bill through the skins and drank until only a 
limp skin remained to dry on the bunch. He seemed almost fearless, 
allowing us to come near indeed before he would leave the grapes. Our 
only cedar waxwing came to the pool on October 13. Unfortunately a 
robin saw him at once and, with astonishment and indignation written all 
over him, he sailed into that strange newcomer and chased him out of 
the yard. 
Our last transient was a male towhee which came on November 18 and 
left on the same day after a good meal of cracked corn. Now only one 
faithful pair of cardinals, downies, three this morning, and an occasional 
hairy woodpecker come to us. With luck on our side and greater watchful- 
ness we hope to improve our record in 1941. 
Following is the list of our visitors during 1940: Eastern mourning 
dove, yellow-billed cuckoo, black-billed cuckoo, screech owl, whip-poor-will, 
hummingbird, flicker, red-headed woodpecker, yellow-bellied sapsucker, hairy 
woodpecker, downy woodpecker, crested flycatcher, phoebe, Acadian fly- 
catcher, least flycatcher, wood pewee, blue jay, brown creeper, house wren, 
winter wren, catbird, brown thrasher, robin, wood thrush, hermit thrush, 
olive-backed thrush, gray-cheeked thrush, veery, bluebird, golden-crowned 
kinglet, ruby-crowned kinglet, cedar waxwing, starling, yellow-throated 
vireo, red-eyed vireo, Philadelphia vireo, black and white warbler, golden- 
winged warbler, parula warbler, yellow warbler, magnolia warbler, Cape 
May warbler, black-throated blue warbler, myrtle warbler, black-throated 
green warbler, Blackburnian warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, black-poll 
warbler, oven-bird, Northern water-thrush, Connecticut warbler, mourning 
warbler, yellow-throat, Wilson’s warbler, Canada warbler, American red- 
start, English sparrow, Baltimore oriole, rusty blackbird, bronzed grackle, 
cowbird, scarlet tanager, cardinal, rose-breasted grosbeak, indigo bunting, 
purple finch, goldfinch, red-eyed towhee, Henslow’s sparrow, slate-colored 
junco, chipping sparrow, white-crowned sparrow, white-throated sparrow, 
fox sparrow, song sparrow. 
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Two Western Records 
By ESTHER A. CRAIGMILE 
IN AuGusT, 1939, the floral beauty, architecture, and exhibits of Treasure 
Island were incomplete without a day at Golden Gate Park. I went directly 
to the beach where the rocks had their usual quota of seal plus myriads 
of brown pelicans and gulls. Playing tag with the waves were several 
strange birds in the surf. I watched them for some time, then visited the 
museum to learn that surf-bird is the common name for Aphriza virgata. 
On consulting Florence Merriam Bailey’s Handbook of Birds of the 
Western United States I still knew little more of my new record. I have 
my late friend William Leon Dawson to thank for definite information of 
Aphriza virgata. The December, 1928, number of Nature Magazine has a 
