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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell-1925
Location: Mineral, 4800 ft.,
Date: June 20
Page Number: 2486

6262 Wright Flycatcher (male) ^testes [illustration] 12.5 g
6263 [Wright] [Flycatcher] (female) 12.7 g
} mates, with set 2/4. iris ^dark hazel ^brown in both.

The female had the abdominal skin thickly glandular,
the male not at all - from which I judge that the
female does all the sitting; also it was the female
which was sitting when I took the eggs. On blowing
these eggs appeared perfectly fresh; yet there was an
appearance of drying. I suspect that "photography"
is disastrous to a good proportion of the subjects - putting
an end to incubation by leaving the eggs exposed to
the hot sun or by chilling them when the bird is off
a long period, "getting accustomed to the camera!"

5:40 p.m. - Mrs. G. has just located a Green-tailed
Towhee
's
nest, containing 3 1/3-grown young, eyes open and alert,
but down still predominating. Nest halfway to top of
ceanothus cordulatus thicket, in which it is located;
rim 520 mm. above ground. Nest supported on slanting
stems and appertaining fine twigs of the snow-bush.
Mass of nest far less than in fox sparrow; basal loose,
coarse layer lacking - more like brown towhee's nest;
wall rather thin and compact.

June 21
Heard a Great Horned Owl hooting something during the
night.

8:00 a.m. - At Fox Sparrow's nest, found by Mrs. G.
several days ago, hardly 75 feet up the slope from our
camp-fire place; this is the nest, with two young (now about
1/3 fledged) that Dixon had been photographing. Both parents

Notes and Questions

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Nathani

As I recall, blowing an egg refers to punching tiny holes in each end and blowing out the contents with one's mouth. Agree with "disastrous", "less", and "hooting". "Appertaining" looks correct also.

kcorriveau

after "testes" at the very top, I write [insert drawing] as a reminder that Grinnell drew a picture here