On 19 October 1974 a party of us flushed a Sprague’s Pipit (Anthus spragueii) from a cutover alfalfa field in the Tijuana River Valley just south of Imperial Beach, San Diego County, California. Additional searching of this field on the 19th revealed at least three Sprague’s Pipits, and continued checking of the area during the next two weeks indicated one or two individuals were present through 27 October. On 24 October I collected an adult female weighing 20.3 g from the field, and it is now No. 38980 in the San Diego Natural History Museum.