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The Quarterly Journal of Western Field OrnithologistsVol. 49, No. 2
March 2018
Western Field Ornithologists

Contents
MAIN ARTICLES
Nevada Bird Records Committee Report for 2016
Jeanne Tinsman and Martin Meyers
Attempts to Establish Colonies of the Purple Martin in Nest Boxes in California: First Success and Evaluation of Failures
Daniel A. Airola, Stan Kostka, and Corinna Elwood
NOTES
The Alaska Red-tailed Hawk
William S. Clark
River Warbler (Locustella fluviatilis) at Gambell, Alaska: First Record for North America
Paul E. Lehman
Attempted Kleptoparasitism of a White-tailed Kite by a Peregrine Falcon
Faith Rigolosi and Floyd E. Hayes
Onshore Foraging by an Eared Grebe
Jeffery T. Wilcox
Novel Function of Flutter Display in the Black-backed Woodpecker
Andrew N. Stillman and Frankie Tousley
Western Screech-Owl (Megascops kennicottii cardonensis) in the Sierra la Asamblea, Baja California, Mexico
Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, Gonzalo de León-Girón, and Philip Unitt
Nesting of the Crested Caracara in Organ Pipe Cactus National
Monument, Arizona
Joseph L. Veverka and Tyler H. Coleman
Book Review
Ryan A. Phillips
In Memoriam: Jon P. Winter, 1941–2014
W. David Shuford and David E. Quady
Featured Photo: First Record of Melanism in a Myiarchus Flycatcher
Deborah J. House
Front cover photo by © Greg Scyphers of Sparks, Nevada: LeConte’s Sparrow (Ammodramus leconteii) at Dyer, Esmeralda County, Nevada, 24–27 October 2015. It represents the fifth Nevada record of this species that is characteristic of the Central Flyway of North America and reaches the western states only as a vagrant, primarily in late fall.
Back cover “Featured Photo” by © Deborah J. House of Bishop, California: melanistic Brown-crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus tyrannulus) at China Ranch, Inyo County, California, 25 May 2008. Though this represents the first record of melanism in the genus Myiarchus, the existence of several sooty or black species in other genera of flycatchers suggests that melanism like this has played a role in the evolution of the family Tyrannidae.