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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral
Date: June 26
Page Number: 2497

out) up 35 feet or so, on trunk of cedar; fed
by both parents. Sierra Hermit Thrushes
in full song - 4 in hearing at once, day clear and
perfectly quiet.

7:40 a.m. - Watched a [female symbol] Hermit Warbler. When first
seen, she was fluffing herself, and attacking generally as tho
just off a nest. A male was singing at frequent
intervals from fir and sugar pines overhead. She
proceeded to forage, from the sprays of little fir close
to the ground; then down into a snow-bush thicket, then
actually on to the ground, continually picking at
foliage or litter, and now and then uttering a sharp
"tsip." Finally she went off thru young firs, and was
lost to view.

A pair of Canada Nuthatches foraged within 20 feet of
us, on fallen logs among snowbush; each kept uttering
low conversational notes "Tiys" - but not the nasal note
until after flying off to the big tree trunks.

8:45 a.m. - Just shot a Pygmy Nuth Hammond Flycatcher
from 2/3 the way up a all red fir in canyon at
about 6500 ft. alt. It was singing precisely like the one
Hoffmann & I heard (see p. 2495). There is no doubt
now in my mind but that hammondi is a bird of
the tall timber of Canadian zone, and keeps well up in trees, singing from the loftiest perches.

Also shot a singing Golden ^^(?) Pileolated
Warbler from batch of snow-depressed white alders
growing along the stream. Can hear a Cassin Vireo up on the ^^{warmer ridge.}