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Jan., 1908 AN ARIZONA NEST CENSUS 45 and two of the Oriole in other trees. One Towbee also had its nest in an ivy on the front porch. She was very shy, and even when the eggs were hatching, would leave the nest as we passed in and out of the house. Several Mockingbirds began nests and three broods were raised during the season by various pairs of this bird. A Sonora Yellow Warbler occupied the top of the tallest tree and a Plumbeous Gnatcatcher partially completed its nest in an um- brella tree. Black-throated Sparrows were always present but built their nests in the scrubby greasewood and catclaw just outside the fence, where I found several nests with eggs or young birds. A Say Phoebe spent most of her time there catch- ing insects for her nestful in an adobe wall across the street. A couple of pairs of Cactus Wrens filled thick bunches of twigs in one of the trees with their baskets of hay, and quarreled with each other and the kingbirds. Several old oriole nests were occupied by the House Finches. To sum up, there were on this small space, 120 by 150 feet, six or more pairs of House Finches, three of the Mockingbird, four Arizona Hooded Oriole, one Bul- lock Oriole, one Vermilion Flycatcher, one Costa Hummer, seven Canyon Towbee (with seven occupied nests at one time), two Cactus Wren, one Baird Woodpecker, two Gassin Kingbird--a total of twenty-eight pairs all of which raised one or more broods of young. Tombslone, Arizona. THE NEW RESERVES ON THE WASHINGTON COAST By WILLIAM LEON DAWSON OME surprise has been expressed at the recent creation by Executive order of four bird and animal preserves off our Northwestern coast. It was a case, in fact, in which the Audubon Societies, supported by the Federal authori- ties, were able to act before extensive damage had been done (by the white man at least) instead of decades after--as has been the rule because of the "times of ignor- ance." Messrs. Finley and Bohlman had ably exploited the interests of the Three Arch Rocks, now formed into a reserve of the ?ame name off the coast of Oregon; but it was not generally known, except to officials and inattentive settlers, that ex- tensive colonies of nesting sea-birds existed along the ocean coast of Washington. In July, 1906, the writer, accompanied by wife and child, undertook a canoe trip along this coast with a view to determining the ornithological resources of the major rocks and islands, some one hundred and thirty in number, which lie scat- tered along the coast between Moclips, the terminus of a recently completed North- ern Pacific spur, and Cape Flattery, at the entrance of the Straits of Juan de Fuca. The weather was unusually propitious and we were able to reconnoiter practically all of the islets and to visit the more important ones. Early in June of the present year, accompanied by Professor Lynds Jones of Oberlin, I revisited these islands, proceeding southward via canoe from Neah Bay as far as Destruction Island, and returning by the same course toward the end of the month. At Carroll Islet, in the Quillayute Needles Reservation, we tarried several days, and the beauties of that miniature paradise must form the theme of a later report. a NOTE.--Hastily prepared by special request on the eve of publication. Mr Dawson will present a fuller ac- count of his visit tothe foremost of these bird islands, under the title "Bird-life on I?abaahta?ch," /m ? future, .numb?r O f TH? CONDOR.--Ec?d?.