Recent Records of the Fulvous Tree Duck for Southern California
Recent Records of the Fulvous Tree Duck for Southern California.
I AM indebted to Rev. F. Reiser for a fine male specimen of Dendvocygna fulva taken under very unusual conditions. While hunting rabbits in the Big Santa Anita wash Sept 16, 1901 he made out “a strange animal” moving rapidly among the bowlders in the dryest part of the wash miles from water. It proved to be a Fulvous Tree Duck; the bird was much emaciated and had no doubt, from weakness, settled there from a passing flock.
Mr. J. S. Torrance reports a flock of twenty about the grounds of the Chico Bolsa Gun Club near Newport, Sept. 25. October IO a specimen in fine plumage was shot in the San Gabriel river bottom near Whittier. This bird also was much emaciated.
FRANK S. DAGGETT. Pasadena, Cal.
