--The following notes on the results of stomach examinations of several different species of birds should be of interest. The stomach contents does not represent in all cases the usual kinds of food' taken by the species. The greater interest generally attaches to the unusual It is important that both the usual and the unusual articles of diet be known. Por=ana noveboracensis. Yellow Rail Rincon Valley, Sonoma County, California, November 17, 1912. Stomach contained 18 dover seeds (Triœolium sp.) and grass. irchibuteo ferrugineus. Ferruginous Rough-leg. Cotati, Sinroma County, California, November 25, 1912. Stomach .contained seven meadow mice (Microtus caliœornicus). This appears to be the first definite record of a Fe:ruginous Rough-leg taken within the state fo'r a number of years. Bubo virginianus pacitcus. Pacific Horned Owl. Berkeley Hills, Berkeley, California, December 15, 1912. Stomach contained two meadow mice (Microtus caliœornicus) and 27 Jerusalem crickets (StenopeImatus sp.). Geococcyx californianus. Roadrunner. San Diego, San Diego County, California, Sep- tember, 1912. Stomach contained a large horned toad (Phrynosoma blainvillei blainvHlei). ChordeiIes virginianus hesperis. Pacific Nighthawk. Dutch Flat, Placer County, Cali- fornia, August 22, 1912. Stomach comained 1 wood-boring beetle (Elaphidion sp.), 17 wood-boring beetles (Criocephalus agrestis), 3 click-beetles (Elateridae), 3 curculios (Bal- aninus sp.), 3 metallic wood-boring beetles (Melanophila sp.), 1 grasshopper, 16 moths, 3 stink-bugs (Podisus sp.), and 2 stink-bugs. All of these insects are considered iniurious. The specimen from which this stomach was taken is no. 23181, University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Sturnella neglecta. Western Meadowlark. Los Banos, Merced County, California, April 21, 1911. Stomach contained over 40 plant lice (Aphis brassicae) along with parts of 8 ground beetles (Pterostichus sp., Blapstinus sp., Conicntis subpubescens), 1 snout. beetle (order Rhynchophora) and parts of 12 crickets (GryIlus pennsylvanicus). Planesticus migratorius propinquus. Western Robin. Orchard, Big Pine, Inyo County, California, January 23, 1911. Stomach contained 192 small cutworms.--H. C.