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Jan.,1913 NOTES ON SOME FRESNO COUNTY BIRDS 19 the second set o? that number that I had ever found, they were added to my collection. Going on to where the first nest had been located I expected to see the tree deserted, but was surprised to find that while the nest had never been completed another had been built on a different branch, but a few' feet away and a little higher up. The bird was on in this case also, and I climbed up about fifteen feet to find seven eggs in the dee151y cupped nest. Less than a quarter of a mile away in a thick bush, four feet from the ground, was another nest of this species with four fresh eggs. Surely this must have been a very attractive place for grasshoppers, small lizards, beetles and horned toads, for I had never before known three pairs of shrikes to nest in such a small area. Planesticus migratorius propinquus. Western Robin. Having read from time to time of several sets of five eggs of the robin having been found, I thought it might be of interest to record a set of that num- ber which I came across four years ago. On May 22, 1908 , while driving along a mountain road near Ockenden, Fresno County, California, I noticed a nearly completed robin's nest situated nine feet from the ground, in a niche in an old burnt stub standing not four feet from the edge of the narrow road. The nest was composed largely of gray-green tree moss, and the mud cup was lined with fine, dry grass stems. Coming down the mountain seven days later, I had for- gotten the nest on the stub until I happened to see the tail of a sitting bird on the nest. She had already begun to incubate a set of five eggs that were altogether normal in size, shape, and coloration. During the week that was spent in the mountains I examined about thirty nests of this species, containing either eggs or young, and sets' of three were more common than four; so that five eggs in one nest was quite exceptional, for that year at least. BIRD NOTES FROM ?THE COAST OF NORTHERN LOWER C?LIFORNIA By GEORGE WILLETT PRIL 4, 1912, the writer left San Diego on the launch "Flier," George H. Child, captain, for a short cruise along the coast of Northern Lower Cali- fornia and to some of the adjacent islands. Among those composing the party were W. J. McCloskey of the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Sci- ence and Art, C. B. Linton of the Cooper Club, and H. C. Lowe, conchologist. We reached Ensenada April 5, and, after procuring the necessary papers from the authorities there, started down the coast. Our trip lasted twenty-two days, end- ing at San Diego, April 26. We were very unfortunate as to weather, only one or two days of the entire time being pleasant. The inclemency of the elements, of course, retarded us to a great extent in our ornithological pursuits. We man- aged, however, to secure quite a number of specimens and notes. More 'or less collecting was done at each of the following points on the dates given. Todos Santos Island, sixty-five miles south of San Diego, five hours on April 25; Hole in the Wall, ten mil?s southeast of Todos Santos, af- ternoon of April 5; Santo Tomas Anchorage, eighty miles south of. San Diego, A?pril 6; Colnett Bay, one hundred and thirty miles south of San Diego, April 7 and 8; San Quentin Bay, one hundred and seventy-five miles south of San