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Sept., 1915 LATE NESTING RECORD FOR CALIFORNIA WOODPECKER 185 where they pounded away for some minutes before coming to the nest with their bills stuffed full of the white bits. From this time ?mtil the young left the nest they were fed mostly on these acorns. Sometimes the birds flew to an oak tree from which they took the green acorns. These were brought to the poles and, I believe, stored away in the holes lef? vacant by the taking of the old acorns. However I have no proof that green nuts were not fed. It only seemed as if the birds were taking the green ones to the poles rather than directly to the young, and since the dried ones would be easier cracked, it is reasonable to believe they were the ones the birds favored for food purposes. Perhaps green acorns are as indigestible for baby birds as green apples are for baby boys. Who knows! On the twentieth of the month I was extremely interested to see the male eating black scale from a pepper-tree that gr?w about a block from the nest. At this time one large young was reaching far out of the hole and I was told by a neighbor that two of the nestlings were found at the foot of the' pole. While it seemed hardly credible that two of them should have been pushed out, there proved to be only one that left the nest, which was either late on the 25th, or early on the 26th of September, fourteen or fifteen days after I discovered them. About six o'clock of the 26th I found the young bird flying, in rather an uncertain way, from pole to pole, where he hopped about and took food which the adults brought him. There were two or three white bars 'on the black outer tail-feathers, and a patch below the red crown was gray. It would seem that this late nesting of the California Woodpecker is not so unusual as we may have believed; for on the 19th of October I found another pole, two blocks farther down this busy thoroughfare, wher? noisy young were being fed. One was leaning well out of the nest. As in the other case, nuts were being fed; but once I saw one of the adults fly down through the air nearly to the ground and come back with a large, long-legged insect in its bill, proving that the diet was not exclusively of acorns. Los Angeles, California, April 6, 1915. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW RACE OF SAVANNAH SPARROW AND SUGGESTIONS ON SOME CALIFORNIA BIRDS By LOUIS B. BISHOP, M. D. N STUDYING a collection, one sometimes finds birds that show an extension of ra.nge, or seem worth reporting from a paucity of records of their pres- ence m the place where these were taken, revises his previous opinion in the light of more material, or reaches conclusions in harmony with, or in opposition to, others who have studied the same species. These are my excuses for this paper. For assistance my thanks are due to Dr. Dwight, Mr. Oberholser and Mr. Porter. Most of the birds recorded were collected for me by the late Mr. Marsden. Fratercula corniculata. The Horned Puffin recorded in the obituary of Mr. Marsden as collected at Pacific Grove on February 17, 1914, was a female in winter plumag? including the bill. It is now no. 26172 of my collection. Larus kumlleni (?). A young female gull (no. 23689), collected at Pacific Grove on January 4, 1912, by Mr. Marsden, has been compared very carefully more than once by Dr. Dwight and myself with the gulls in the collection of the