Jan., 1915 THE STAT [? OF THE ARIZONA SPOTTED OWL Si rix occidentalis occgdentalis No. Sex Collection of Locality Date 1392 , ? G. Wfilett Monrovia Nov. 9, 1913 1394 ? G. Willett Monrovia Nov. 3, 1913 152 ? ? J. Grinnell Pasadena Nov. 30, 1894 1674 ? ? H, S. Swarth Pasadena Oct. 22, 1900 1675 ? ? H.S. Swarth Pasadena Oct. 22, 1900 .... ? 8 G.F. Morcom San Diego Co. Oct. 11, 1885 130 ? ? *Mus. Hist., Sei. and Art Castale Canyon Apr. 1, 1909 Pasadena Nov. 30, 1894 151 ? ? J? Grinnell 1477 ? J.E. Law San Dimas Canyon Dec. 9, 1913 1393 ? G. Willett i Monrovia Nov. 3, 1913 829 ? G. Willett i FiIlmore Dec. 13, 1910 830 ? G. Willett I . Fillmore Dec. 13, 1910 494 ? C.H. RichardSon Mt. Wilson Mar. 21, 1905 5589 ? F.S. Daggett * San Dimas Canyon Feb. 14, 1903 ? L.H. Miller : Castai? Canyon Apr. 10, 1911 '?* ? Mus. HisL, Scl. and Art Castale Canyon Apr. 1, 1.909 1395 ?' G. Willett Monrovia Nov. 3, 1913 ? Mus. Hist., Sci, and Art Newhall May 20, 1906 .... 9 Juv. L. H..Miller Forest Home Aug. 17, 1913 Sirix occidentalis huachucae (3691) ? /? O.F. Moreore Huachuca Mts. Apr. 11, 1903 16876 ? L.B. Bishop Santa Catalina Mts. July 7, 1906 16877 9 L.B. Bishop Santa Catalina Mrs. July 7, 1906 16878 ? juv. L. B. Bishop Santa Catalina Mrs. July 7, 1906 'Specimen not ?xamined in the present connection 19 Wing Tail 314 203 32O 205 321 197 328 206 326 212 318 207 326 207 326 208 320 ?' 205. 314 193 325 214 322 209 318 192 314 188 323 200 =Mounted bird;. not available for measurements. ?Type; no catalogue number. Number given is that of the field note book of the collect- or, H. S. Swarth Specimen on deposit at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Berkeley, California. Los A?geles, California, November 15, 1914. NIAGARA AT YOUR DOOR An Appeal to San Franciscans By WILLIAM LEON DAWSON E HAVE all heard of the family which having been resident for fifty years at a point seven miles from Niagara, finally scraped enough money together to come to California--without ever having seen Nia- gara Falls. We are glad they came, of course, and we wfil not .chide them ;. because we are fearful lest they in turn should ask us Californians certain era: barrassing questions. 'Let us see ! One afternoon in July, 1912, viz., the 21st, during a three-day sojourn in your beautiful city, I was delighted to find that the ?amous Seal Rocks off the mouth of the Golden Gate were thickly populated with a nesting colony of Farallon Cormorants. There were five hundred birds, by count, on the shore- ward aspect of the largest reek (in delightfully plain view from the portico of the Cliff House, as every one knows), and it seemed probable that as many more Were occupying the seaward slopes. Inasmuch as I had on all former oceasious beheld these reeks practically monopolized by Steller Sea Lions, I was very much interested, and became, naturally, curious as to further devel- opments. Not being privileged to follow the fortunes of this notable colony
