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13; five adult females, February 26; March 4; three, March 13. 

 Common everywhere in the timber. These birds had the same 

 habits and notes as the eastern variety. I shot a female one 

 day which hung in a tree, and a male came bustling around 

 with spread wings and tail, and pecked and pulled at it until 

 it fell to the ground. He seemed more curious than anything 

 else, and not at all alarmed. 



33. Sitta pijgmea Vig. — Pygmy Nuthatch. Nine adult 

 males, February 23, March 4, 13, 19, 21; five adult females, 

 February 23, 24, March 2, 13 and 21. This was the most com- 

 mon bird of the pines and was usually found in small flocks. 

 They were very active, crawling up and down the tree-trunks 

 or hunting through the limbs in regular warbler style, giving 

 their soft, rather peevish notes continually. They frequently 

 lit on a dead limb just above my head and scolded me vigor- 

 ously. When the first warm weather came they began to 

 mate, and paraded around in true nuthatch style with spread 

 wings and tail. 



34. Bseoloplms inomatus griseus Ridgw. — Gray Titmouse. 

 One adult female, taken March 8. Seen only on this one day, 

 when I found a pair by their harsh scolding notes on the side 

 of Crater Mountain. The male gave a clear whistled pete, 

 pete, pete, like that of Bseolophus hicolor, but having only one 

 syllable instead of two. They were working rapidly through 

 the brush, and when one w^as shot the other disappeared. 



35. Penthestes gambeli Ridg\^^ — Mountain Chickadee. 

 Six adult males, February 26; two, March 2, 8, 21 and 25. 

 Four adult females, February 26, March 8, 11 and 17. Com- 

 mon. This species had the same habits and was found in the 

 same localities as Penthestes atricapillus frequents in the east. 

 The notes were harsher, like those given by the young of the 

 eastern bird in July and August. I also heard them give a 

 clear whistled Phoe-be with the last note sometimes repeated 

 twice. They were very tame and appeared to pay no atten- 

 tion to me at all. 



36. Psaltriparus plumheus Baird. — Lead-colored Bush- 

 bit. Four adult males, March 25. Two adult females, March 

 25. One flock of about fifteen seen on Crater Mountain, feed- 

 ing rapidly through the bushes. They were very quick and 

 active, searching every nick of a limb. I heard them give three 

 call-notes, two of them low and weak, like tsit, tsit, tsee, tsee, 



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