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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral
Date: June 24
Page Number: 2495

in that each has scattering ^^fine dots, mostly about the
big end, of dark brown. The [female symbol] on the nest allowed
me to get my hand within 2 feet of her, as I had an
excellent view, proving her ^^{to be} wrighti. Her tail is
abnormal in that only two old feathers remain, the
nest being new and only about 2/3 grown out. The
nest is usual size and construction and nests
chiefly within the forks of the main ceanothus stem which is
5/8 in. thick just below the forking. Taken nest + 3/4 + [female symbol] ^^parent.
9 a.m.-- Mr. Hoffmann shot a (female) Three-Toed Woodpecker
at 6:20 this morning out of a dead stub on ridge (Viola trail) hardly 10 minutes walk from camp, therefore not higher
than 5200 ft.!
10:30 a.m. Hoffmann and I up Viola Trail at about
5500 ft. listening to Hammond (?) [sic] Flycatcher on chosen
singing perch, which is very topmost snag-end of dead-topped
fir. Estimated height from ground 135 feet. Bird plainly
seen - breast to sun, appearing white. Bird continually
shifts body, most frequently head, from side to side.
Head thrown back with utterance of notes. Complete
"song" has three elements: se-'put [uttered rapidly],
taur-r-rp [roughly burred], tseep´ [rising inflection].
More of interval between first and second than second and
third. Sometimes second and third interchanged.
At camp - a Citellus douglasi, the first ground
squirrel I have seen around Mineral, appeared on our
"feeding log" this afternoon. It was a [female symbol] (teets showing)
and she filled her cheek pouches bulgingly before she went off ^^{thru [sic] the snow-bush.}