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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral
Date: June 22
Page Number: 2490

sheltered within the cavity, the nest being in-set in
bark and needle floor right against the charcoal
wall. Rim of nest (exposed side) marked by coarse
pine twigs and needles, scattering out towards opening
of cavity; latter 600 mm. high at peak, 480 mm.
wide at base of opening; rim of nest a little
higher, about 25 mm., than ground in front. Nest found
by watching old birds, with food perching around
quietly on stubs of fallen logs and lower branches
of big standing trees, finally flying down to side.
The yellow thickened corners of mouth and edges of
bill loom up a most conspicuous feature of young
in shade of cavity. On dry ridge top, open
forest of white fir, cedar, yellow and sugar pines.

Saw a Sharp-shinned Hawk in flight from direction
of camp, well above tree-tops. One or both of a
pair of Evening Grosbeaks were noted repeatedly in a
certain section of the woods. Mr. Hoffmann discovered
a Hammond(*) Flycatcher's nest^(5500 ft. alt.) fully 90 ft. up on a
horizontal sub-branch of a huge sugar pine - of course
inaccessible. The birds looked ^at that range and sounded, to me,
indistinguishable from the "Wright" Flycatchers I have
been getting down here with low brush-built nests.
However, only shooting of the birds can settle their
identity. I saw one of Hoffman's birds come clear
to the ground and flit about in small firs
and low snow-brush; yet both of the birds did
a lot of foraging fully 100 feet up, in firs and pines.

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nbahet

unknown1 - Can't quite ascertain a word here that renders the sentence appropriately; but thought it might be "loom."

kcorriveau

uknown1 changed to "loom"