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GAME BIEDS OF CALIFORNIA 



Table 18 — Data Relative to tlio Nesting of the Band-tailed Pigeon 

 in California 



I^OCALITV 



Laguna Mts., "20 miles 



north of Campo," San 



Diego Co. 

 Pine Mt., 3,250 ft., 



San Diego Co. 

 Pine Mt.. 3,250 ft., 



San Diego Co. 

 San Jacinto Mts., at 6,500 



ft.. Riverside Co. 

 San Jacinto Mts.. at 6,500 



ft.. Riverside Co. 

 Mt. Wilson, 5,500 ft., 



Los Angeles Co. 

 Cuyamaca Mts., 4 miles 



south of Julian, San 



Diego Co. 

 Palomar Mts., 



San Diego Co. 

 Pine Mt., 3,250 ft., 



San Diego Co. 



North Peak. Cuyamaca 

 Mts.. San Diego Co. 



San Jacinto Mts.. at Ful- 

 ler's Mill. 5,900 ft., 

 Riverside Co. 



Xear Woodside, 

 San Mateo Co. 



Mt. Wilson, 5.500 ft., 

 Los Angeles Co. 



Lagunitas, Marin Co. 



Barley Flats, 5,600 ft.. 



Los Angeles Co. 

 Barley Flats, 5,600 ft., 



Los Angeles Co. 

 Big Bear Lake, 



San Bernardino Mts. 

 Xear Redwood City, 



San Mateo Co. 



Datk Contk.nts of Nk.st Authoritv 



Mar. 6, 1877 1 egg (near hatching) Stephens (1913, p. 129> 



May 3, 1901 2 eggs (fresh) 



Sharp (1903, p. 16) 



May 11, 1902 1 egg (incubation well Sharp (1903. p. 16) 



advanced) 



May 14, 1897 1 squab (ju.st hatched) Oilman (1903, p. 134) 



May 14, 1897 1 .squab (half-grown) Oilman (1903. p. 134) 



May 23, 1897 1 egg (considerably Orinnell (1898, p. 20) 



incubated) 



June 4, 1896 Adult bird on ne.st, but Albert M. Ingersoll 



not flushed (in letter) 



June 21, 1910 1 egg 



Huey (1913. p. 152) 



June 24, 1902 1 egg (incub. far adv.: Sharp (1903. p. 16) 



same nest as Mav 11, 



1902) 

 Ju'v 1 (about) 2 squabs in one nest 



1910 

 July 1, 1908 1 egg (incubation 



slight) 



Huey (1913. p. 152) 



Orinnell and Swarth 

 (1913. p. 233) 



.July 3, 1914 1 squab 



(Sent to State Game 



Farm. Hay ward) 

 Orinnell (1898. n. 20) 



July 5, 1894 1 squab (about one 



week old) 

 July 30, 1912 1 egg (incubation .T. Mailliard (1912, 



far advanced) p. 194) 



Last of July, 1 voung (able to flv) Antonin Jay (in letter) 



1888 

 Last of July. 1 Aoung (able to tlv) Antonin Jay (in letter) 



1888 

 Aug. 11, 1913 1 egg (nearly fresh) Pierce (1913, p. 227) 



Aug. 23, 1914 1 es-g (half incubated) Chase Little.iohn 



(in letter) 



ness ill two recorded instances was one and four inches, respectively 

 (Sharp, 1903, p. 16; Grinnell, 1913, p. 31). Sometimes as few as 16 

 or 18 twigs are all that go to make up the nest (Huey, 1913, p. 152), 

 and again there may be more than a hundred (nest in Mus. Yert. 

 Zool.). The twigs range from a sixteenth to a quarter of an inch in 

 diameter and are of various lengths. Tliey are laid across one another, 

 with little or no weaving, forming a platform with numerous inter- 

 stitial spaces. A slight lining of pine needles was found in one nest 

 (Sharp, 1903, p. 16). As Gilman (1903, p. 134) well says, it is a 

 marvel how an egg can be kept warm enough to hatch while resting 

 on such an airy platform in the cool air of a high altitude. The nest 

 site, which is almost always on top of a large horizontal liml), seems 

 to be so selected that the incubating bird may flush directly and 

 rapidly from the nest when danger threatens. 



Of the actual construction of the nest, Willard. writing of an 

 observation in Arizona (1916, pp. 110-111), says: 



