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Sept.,1911 AN EARLY SPRING TRIP TO ANACAPA ISLAND 167 before any wind came up. It was agreed to colne after us at noon, but ?ve landed agood supply of water and provisions with us. There is no water on the east islands, so it is necessary to be prepared in case of a blow. We were greeted by loud clamorings and flopping wings of a perfect swarm of Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus californicus) and Western Gulls, up on top of the island. This was the same place that was visited by some Cooper Club members in the summer of 1910. A number of pelicans were noted flying with long strips of sea weed in their bills, for mending the old nests, but none of them had begun to lay their eggs. Our time was limited on the island, so we made directly for the eagle's nest located the day previous. The old male sighted us as we neared the cliff, and flew out over the water giving an alarm note repeated several times, but the female did not leave the nest until we peered down over the top of the cliff. As she sailed out over the water we gazed eagerly to see if there was a set of two or three eggs in the nest. Instead of eggs we spied two moving objects that looked like balls of downy cotton in the center of the mass of sticks and grasses. The young eagles looked to be about two or three days old. A half-eaten fish was lying on the edge of the nest, while several backbones. of good sized fish could be seen scattered around. Not wishing to keep the old bird away from the nest too long we passed on around the island, leaving them in their glory. Shortly after noon we sighted the launch returning for us, so everything was carried back down on the rocks at the foot of the cliff, and we were soon back on the launch bound for theharbor, I suppose to the relief of the Pelicans and Gulls, as they settled back down among the nests on top of the cliffs. The afternoon was spent rounding up the sheep by Mr. Webster and the two shearers, so we volunteered to help. While driving some stray sheep out of one of the small rocky gulches framing up in the island, Peyton located a Raven's ( Corvus corax sinualus) nest in the niche of a small cliff. The deeply cupped top of the nest was warmly lined with wool, but the eggs had not yet been laid. This I am sure was the only Raven's nest on the islands, for we pretty thoroughly can- vassed them all. Saturday, the 19th, we remained around the harbor fishing and getting our things together, as we were to be taken home the next morning, the weather per- mitting. So far we had been fortunate, as the weather had been very calm all week. The launch had to be run up to the sheep shearers' camp at the west end of the island before leaving for the mainland, and Peyton and Harrison went along in it, while I remained at camp to finish packing up. While passing up the island, near the cliffs, a third nest of the eagles was located on the ledge of a cliff, and the old bird could be seen on it. It was a great temptation to stay another day on the island, but everything was packed and loaded on board, so we had to pass it up, and say good-by to Anacapa and the eagles. FI?OI?I FIELD AND STUDY Two Species New to California. Ovenbird. ,Veiurus aurocapillus. While engaged this spring in photographic work on the Farallones (in re the learallone bird-group being prepared for the California Academy of Science), I had opportunity to observe several small bird waves, each of which bronght ns a motley assortment of eastern forms. On the 29th of May a strange