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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral, 4800 ft.
Date: June 28
Page Number: 2501

7:45 a.m. - At Mountain Quail's nest (see p. 2481). The
fourth egg was laid on the 20th at a few minutes of
2:30 p.m.; for I was "collecting" a set of Wright
Flycatcher
s less than 60 feet away from 3:00 to 3:40.
When I came at 3:00, there were 3 eggs in the quail's
nest. In spite of my proximity and and my have [sic] shot
twice (in getting the two flycatchers) the quail came
to the nest and unobserved and was on at 3:30, sitting
closely. A little later Dixon visited the site and
saw 4 eggs, the bird being gone. The circumstance
recited on p. 2481, of the eggs being covered (when there
were three) was evidently adventitious; nothing of the
sort has been repeated. Mrs. G has visited the
nest daily, and found one egg to have been
added each day, laid about 3 or 4 in the
afternoon when visits were so timed as to
determine this point. On the 25th there were
8 eggs, and the next day the bird was on, sitting,
and was not disturbed. Each visit since, she
has been on and not flushed - until now, when
there are nine eggs. Evidently one was laid the
day the bird began to sit. She is very "broody",
flattened out in circular form on the nest, head
drawn in, only the tail projecting from the "circle".
She stayed on until a branch of ceanothus just
above her was lifted, my hand scarcely a foot
away, when she sprang off to the ground and
disappeared, with noise other than the flit

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