Transcribing the field notes of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Collector: Grinnell - 1925 Location: Mineral, 4800 ft. Date: July 8 Page Number: 2525

observation apply. We have often ^^before head or seen one or both old birds here within a 100 yards radius. For the most part they stay up in the trees above the 25-foot level, but occasionally they forage. For example, last evening I watched one fly-catching down about the bases of pines and firs, and within the rank ground vegetation, often stooping to the very ground to snap up an insect, with a little bill-click. This bird all the while uttered the faint soft "pit" of the species. this morning I located the pair by hearing the rather sharp "see-put" or "see-pert" of the male, and then the "pit" of the female. Soon I located the objects of their interest, four young out of the nest, tails not yet full length, perching near together among the branches toward the center of a lodgepole about 25 feet up. The old [female symbol] I shot, unintentionally, instead of a young one. The latter, now one and then the other, fly out after him, there is a melee, and evidently it is fed. The "pit" note has not been given since I shot the [female symbol], only the "see-pert." Just shot one of the young Hammond Flycatchers out of a lodgepole, fully 40 feet up; the others are similarly aloft. I can heard a faint food-call from them - "chlip."

One or more Crossbills just flew over, saying "chup - chup - chup" - sharp notes in 3's, somewhat after the manner of a Willow Goldfinch.

Repaired to the place where the Calliope