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CONTENTS Frontispiece: Long-billed Dowitchers Feeding ............................ W. Leon Dawson 4 The Shore Birds of Santa Barbara (with three photos byJ. H. Bowles) ..................... ............... dr. Hooper Bowles and ?qldrred B. Howell 5 Through Tahoean Mountains (with three photos by OlufJ. Heinemann) ...................................................... /Frillon X. ?tty 12 A Visit to Nootka Sound (with four photos by the author) ............ H. X. Swarth 15 Some Birds of Southwestern Montana (with one map) _. Are/as _/t. Saunders 22 Birds of a Mojave Desert Oasis .......................... Chester Lamb 32 FROM FIELD AND STUDY Bobolink Again in Idaho ............. L.E. Wyman 41 Rare Takes for San Mateo County, California ---?hase Lilllefohn 41 Wood Ibis near Long Beach ...... ? E. Law 41 Another Eastern Fox Sparrow in Southern Californ?[---'i]--ffllfred B. Howell 41 The American Merganser at Lake Tahoe ..... ? E. Law 42 Concerning Nesting Sites of the California Jay__ John W.. ,5?failliard 42 EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS ................... 43 PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED ......................... 43 CONS?ITUTIOl?I OF THE COOPER ORlqlTHOLOGICAL CLUB ................... 47 MIl?IJTI?S OF COOPER CLUB ?[EETINGS ..................................... 50 Entered as second-class matter February, 1908, at the Dost office at Los Angeles (Hollywood Station), California, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Issued from the Office of The Condor, First National Bank Building, Eloflywood, Cal. BIRDS ---NESTS---EGGS The Oololist is the only publication in the United States devoted to these. It is now in its twenty-sixth year. If you are interested, subscribe now. Only Fifty Cents per year. The Oologist, Lacon, I11. When replying to advertisements B II}B LORE Is now publishinga series of plates, by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, illustrating the Sparrows o! ltorth .Sanertea in Color 20 cents a copy $1.00 a year D. /pplcton & Co. !tarrisburg, Pa. ?d I?ew lark git)' ,lease mention THE CONDOR