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FROM FIELD AI?D STUDY 223 Nov., 1912 On the morning of June 18 I desired to photograph the yot?ng birds but either they had moved, or the parent had moved them, and I was unable to locate them, although I went over the ground very carefully ,and may have looked right at them! Evidently they were not far away, however, for every time I came into the vicinity the old bird was there to renew her deluding tactics. I discovered them again on the morning of June 19. They were about fifteen yards from the place where I first found them, and the mother was brooding. The sun beat down fiercely during those days, and I cannot understand how the birds could withstand it on that rocky ?round with the granite glare surrounding them and not a particle of sheltering shade. I hurried to camp for the camera. Fifteen minutes later when I returned one of the young was eight feet from the other. ! replaced it, took their pictures, and the photograph here reproduced is the result. One evening about 8:30 v. ?. 1 passed by the locality, and found that the young were more active then than during the hours of daylight. They would run a few inches at a time in a straight line over the ground, while during the daytime they remained perfectly quiet and gave no sign of seeing the intruder. The coloration of the yotmg blended so remarkably with their surroundings that it was well-nigh impossible to see them. It was more difficult to see the birds in bright sunlight [?ig. ?5. TEXAS NIGHTHAV?'K NESTLINGS, ILLUSTRATING THE PROTECTIVE NATURE OF THEIR COLOR AND MARKINGS than at other times. When I returned with the camera the day I took the photograph, I had the utmost difficulty in locating the nestlings, although I knew exactly where they were. In fact, I nearly stepped on one. I had been looking straight at it, but failed to make it out. Only one parent was noted at any time. The female and young were collected (nos. -?2702, 23157, 23158, Mus. Vert. Zool.). Incidentally Mr. Grinnell informs me that th?s is to date the most northern record of the breeding of the Texas Nighthawk by over two degrees of latitude.?W? P. T^?o?. Recent Santa Barbara Records.--Man-o'-war-bird (Fregata aquila). On the 12th of August (1912) two of these birds were seen sailing aborn over the estero near Carpinteria. Upon sighting us they approached curiously, allowing completest inspection, then passed inland nearly a mile, rising to a height of several thousand feet, after which they drove straight west till lost from sight (passing thus directly over Santa Barbara). Another bird was seen by Mr. Torrey and myself close in shore at a point thirteen miles west of town, on the 27th of the same month. Mr. E. S. Spaulding also reports having seen single birds on two occasions near the Santa Barbara pier. Snowy Heron (Egretta ca?didissima). A single bird in fnll plumage was sighted on