June 1 Lancaster 95 Thayer is just now sending W.W. Burns to head of Gulf of Calif. to get Pallid Horned Lark, just because this is only subspecies of 2toons he now lacks! But Thayer's folly certainly results in careful preservation of a great quantity of rare specimens, and this will doubtless ultimately go to some public institution. I should ask Thayer for gift of certain from California birds to MVZ, where he has large series. Wild finds I saw around Lancaster were: Bobolink (15 in full song-flight over meadow); Meadowlark (2); Chipping Sparrow (6); Red-eyed Vireo(1); Robin (about 12, including a bob-tailed young ); Bronzed Grackle (10); Starling (4);