Two Birds New to the Lower Colorado River Region
Two Birds New to the Lower Colorado River Region
While collecting in the Yuma valley on the California side of the Colorado River, during November and December, 1916, I collected the two following birds, which are worthy of record:
Lophodytes cucullatus. When crossing over a small bridge that spanned an irrigation canal about three miles north of Bard, Imperial County, California, on November 26, 1916, I flushed a duck that had been feeding in the partially drained canal. On shooting the bird it proved to be a Hooded Merganser. It is an adult female and is now number 820 of my collection.
Toxostoma-curtirostre palmeri. On December 31, when starting out in the late afternoon to set my line of mouse traps, I noticed a Thrasher scratching on the shady side of a neighbor’s wood pile. On collecting the bird I was surprised to-find it to be a Palmer Thrasher. This is the first occurrence of the species in California. It is an adult female, taken three miles north of Bard, Imperial County, California, and is number 1020 of my collection.
Laurence M. Huey
San Diego, California, January 7, 1920
