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Mar., 1914 SOME DISCOVERIES IN THE FOREST AT FYFFE 59 seasonal conditions. At a forest edge a Red-breasted _.Nuthatch (3'itta canaden- sis) was noted drilling well np in a lofty dead tree trunk, while a Spurred Towhee (Pipilo maculat?ts megalonyx) fluttered off from an unfindable nest in a patch of mountain misery, that softest and greenest of all Sierran carpets. It was not my original intention in the afternoon, in a sort of preliminary surx?ey, to climb in traveling clothes the pitchy pines or charred dead tree trunks, but the ornithological temptations proved stronger than my resolutions. Edg- ing on the road I noted four rich buffy eggs of the Mountain Partridge (Orcortyx Fig. 25. IN THE FOREST AT I?'yFFI?. THIS RATHI?R OPI?N VIEW WAS POSSIBLIE ONLY BIECAUSIE OF TH? CLEARING ALONG TH? DITCH; ?LS?WH?R? THe. FOREST WAS G?N?RALLV SO D?S? AS TO PR?- CLUD? PHO?GRAPH?. ON MAY 20 A N?ST OF TH? SIERRA JUNCO w,s [oc.v?v c?os? ?o v? ?o? s?i?c v? sv?.?. picta phtmi[era) lying in a grass and kaf-lined hollow which a dead pine branch and surrounding weeds partially concealed. As I headed northeast into the greta forest the rich mebdy of Thick-billed Sparrows (Passerella ili?a meg'ar?ncha) came floating from the brush-covered clearings, while from all sides came a maze of warbler songs, incessant, varied and low. I had now gone a number of miles, and had visited, though without result, several p.a?icular points mapped and described with great care by Carriger. The