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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral, 4800 ft.
Date: July 2
Page Number: 2515

different from that of wrighti. Hammondi is a
bird of the woods, both in nesting and foraging, and
it stays high up; 25 feet up, in the tract of lodgepoles
where today's nest was found, is quite equal to
90 feet up in the high sugar pines and white firs on
the ridge up Viola Trail. Hammondi forages about
among and through the branchwork of the trees well up,
not in chaparral where wrighti is at home. The
latter is much the noisier bird, too.

6277 Hammond Flycatcher [female symbol] ad. 11.2g. With nest, as above. ^^{Shot in lodgepole pine.}
6278 Yellow Warbler [male symbol] ad. testes [testes illustration]. 9.2g. Shot in white alder.
6279 Lincoln Sparrow [male symbol] ad. testes [testes illustration]. 18.3g. Shot in willow.
6280 Song Sparrow [male symbol] ad. testes [testes illustration]. 20.3g. Shot in willow.
6281 [Song] [Sparrow] [male symbol] ad. testes [testes illustration]. 20.4g. Shot in willow.

6:50 p.m. - At Hammond Flycatcher's nest again.
Stu up the tree - sees young in the nest, he thinks.
With string, we find the nest to be 28 ft. 9 in. above
the ground (guessed this morning at 25 feet). Stu
does the tree work, tying a rope out as far as he
can reach, taking a couple of turns on a limb
above, and then chopping off the nest limb, which
latter is then lowered slowly, the branches below
helping to ease the process. In spite of considerable
tilting the nest, and four small young it contained,
reached the ground without injury. The nest [taken]
proved to be 13 feet out from the trunk of the tree.
I heard the male call from the treetops in the
vicinity, but he did not come to the nest while after

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral, 4800 ft.
Date: July 2
Page Number: 2515

different from that of wrighti. Hammondi is a
bird of the woods, both in nesting and foraging, and
it stays high up; 25 feet up, in the tract of lodgepoles
where today's nest was found, is quite equal to
90 feet up in the high sugar pines and white firs on
the ridge up Viola Trail. Hammondi forages about
among and through the branchwork of the trees well up,
not in chaparral where wrighti is at home. The
latter is much the noisier bird, too.

6277 Hammond Flycatcher [female symbol] ad. 11.2g. With nest, as above. ^^{Shot in lodgepole pine.}
6278 Yellow Warbler [male symbol] ad. testes [testes illustration]. 9.2g. Shot in white alder.
6279 Lincoln Sparrow [male symbol] ad. testes [testes illustration]. 18.3g. Shot in willow.
6280 Song Sparrow [male symbol] ad. testes [testes illustration]. 20.3g. Shot in willow.
6281 [Song] [Sparrow] [male symbol] ad. testes [testes illustration]. 20.4g. Shot in willow.

6:50 p.m. - At Hammond Flycatcher's nest again.
Stu up the tree - sees young in the nest, he thinks.
With string, we find the nest to be 28 ft. 9 in. above
the ground (guessed this morning at 25 feet). Stu
does the tree work, tying a rope out as far as he
can reach, taking a couple of turns on a limb
above, and then chopping off the nest limb, which
latter is then lowered slowly, the branches below
helping to ease the process. In spite of considerable
tilting the nest, and four small young it contained,
reached the ground without injury. The nest [taken]
proved to be 13 feet out from the trunk of the tree.
I heard the male call from the treetops in the
vicinity, but he did not come to the nest while after