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?4 THE CONDOR I VoL. VI This season for the first time I found a nest of the Louisiana tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) with eggs. It was on the fourth of July. The nest was in a tall Douglas spruce, on a short branch among the lowest having vegetation. The site was twenty-five feet from the ground, on a horizontal fork, the nest being held in place by surrounding twigs. It was made of coarse forky twigs as an outer frame- work, the walls being made of fine rootlets, and the lining of horsehair. The cav- itv was two and three-fourths inches in diameter, and one and one half inches deep. The nest was found by watching the birds as they frequented the place, and finally seeing the female take her place on the nest. When disturbed, the female was sitting, and she remained on the nest until I was quite near it. The site was a tuft of twigs four feet from the main stem. There were four eggs, in- cubated 5o per cent or more. When removed from its site, the loose twigs in the outer part of the nest fell away, like that part of a grosbeak's nest. The ruby-crowned kinglet (Regulus calendula) is very cmnmon in this region. In the middle of June I spent many minutes watching the birds in their move- ments in the tops of the medium-sized evergreens, but was unable to find any nests, probably owing to the fact that nest-building was finished and the females were sitting. The males were singing in the upper parts of the taller trees, but were extremely shy and managed to keep out of sight from the inquisitive ob- server. It is a queer song, beginning with two or three squeaky notes like "tsee" followed by "chit, chir, chit, whittle, whittle, whirtle." and several other rather indistinct notes. At length, on July 6, I took a nest of the ruby-crowned kinglet, with both parent birds. The nest was situated about fifteen feet from the ground, near the extremity of a branch in a fir tree beside a road through the woods. The site was six feet from the main stem. The nest was saddled on an oblique twig on the under side of the branch, and was also somewhat pendent from several small twigs about which the walls were woven. The structure was four inches in diameter externally, and three inches high. The opening, which was at the top, was two and one-fourth inches wide, and the cavity was one and seven-eighths inches deep. The nest walls were made of dark green lichen, deerhair, gossamer, and bark shreds. The lining was hair, soft downy feathers, and lichen. There were eight young in the nest, ready to leave in a short time. The accompanying illus- tration, made from a photo by Prof. M. J. Elrod, shows the position and site of the nest. Lewistown, Montaniz. A Few Records Supplementary to Grinnell's Check-list of California Birds BY JOSEPH MAILLARD HEN a list of birds of any locality appears in print it usually occurs that observers in the given area will find that they have some records and notes which are not referred to by the author of the list. This is due to sev- eral reasons. Either the observers have not realized that some particular records were worth mentioning, or the mention of certain things may have been postponed for the moment and lost sight of for the time being, or certain parties may not have