. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 89 WHITE MALLARDS. A white mallard duck, the only albino aallard reported during the past open eason, was killed in December, 1916, lear Live Oak, California, by Sam jamme, keeper of the West Butte Coun- ry Club. The bird, a male, has been Qounted and is on exhibition at the club- louse. Newspaper publicity has uncov- red the fact that another mounted pecimen of an albino mallard is in the •ossession of Colon
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 89 WHITE MALLARDS. A white mallard duck, the only albino aallard reported during the past open eason, was killed in December, 1916, lear Live Oak, California, by Sam jamme, keeper of the West Butte Coun- ry Club. The bird, a male, has been Qounted and is on exhibition at the club- louse. Newspaper publicity has uncov- red the fact that another mounted pecimen of an albino mallard is in the •ossession of Colonel J. W. Dorsey of San Francisco. Still another specimen, , female, taken at Gridley, Butte County, everal years ago, is in the collection of he California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.—H. C. Beyant. BIRDS LOSE THEIR WAY IN FOG. During the early part of October sev- ral reports appeared in newspapers that umerous song birds alighted on ships far ff the coast during heavy tule fogs, lost of the references to the kind of birds lighting on ships were couched in such eneralities as: "hawks, blackbirds, spar- ows and ; Although we have at- empted to secure more specific informa- ion the following facts only have been erified. A large number of birds, of several dif- erent species, alighted on the Danish lotor ship "Chile" when sixty miles off he Golden Gate, in October, 1916. One f the birds, obtained and held in captivity >r a short time by Mrs. M. C. Terry, from detailed description appears to have been spurred towhee (Pipilo maculatus). Dr. M. C. Terry, of the United States 'ublic Health Service, saw a number of English sparrows and a warbler of some sort on the deck of the Norwegian steam- ship "San Joaquin," which docked on Oc- tober 21, 1916. These birds were said to have come aboard the ship when it was off the lightship, about ten miles off "the ; The pilot of the ship reported that blackbirds and a small owl also c
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