A Winter Record for the Macgillivray Warbler
Journal
Condor
Volume
17
Issue
2 (March-April)
Year
1915
Pages
102
Section
From Field and Study
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Winter Record for the MacGillivray Warbler
On December 17, 1914, a bird of this species (Oporornis tolmiei) was located by its note in a dense hedge of cypress close by the old ranch house at the La Brea Fossil Beds. Nearly all the morning it called frequently from almost the same spot, where it kept closely to the densest place, whence it ventured occasionally a few feet into a bed of horehound adjoining. It refused to leave cover even when a grocer’s wagon drove within eight feet. When finally secured it proved to be minus all rectrices, a fact that may account for the specimen furnishing what appears to be the only winter record for California.
L. E. Wyman
Museum History, Science, and Art, Los Angeles, California
