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Collector: Grinnell-1925
Location: Mineral
Date: June 22
Page Number: 2489

sitting closely, nearly touched before she flew off. Nest
1750 mm out to south of trunk of cedar, which
is a small tree, 8 in. diam., growing beneath sugar
pine and white fir. Taken; incubation of eggs ^^{well begun. (1/4).}

8:05 a.m. - Mt. Chickadee's nest, with well-feathered
young, in old woodpecker (?) hole in barkless broken-off
pine stub 2 ft. in diam.; lower edge of entrance, 1950
mm. above ground. Diam. of entrance 40 mm.; ^^{38 mm. nest diam.;} Both old
birds are bringing food to young.

Just followed up a song which puzzled me. The
producer would stay ^^still, perched 75 to 100 feet up in firs
or yellow pines. Sang a sustained, vigorous, dry trill,
but dropping toward end. Quietly chipping sparrow-
like, but this falling at the end made me suspect an orange-
crowned warbler. The bird, finally seen clearly, was a
Chipping Sparrow.

One or more Golden-crowned Kinglets in a clump of
young fir. A Solitaire "creaking" in the distance.
A Pileated Woodpecker, flying thru the woods, giving
its resonant "Kuk" slowly and irregularly in a long
series. At least two singing Calaveras Warblers
on this dry ridge in vicinity of some smallish
black oaks, but singing from all sorts of places, up
to 75 feet up in firs and cedars. Tho
Ch Calif. Purple Finches in full song nearby.

10:12 a.m. - Solitaire's nest, on level of ground
inside a cavity (old burn) in base of ^^living sugar pine
2 1/2 feet in diameter. The four young are wholly