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of our Tree Pipit’s. Another of the Sparrow tribe is 
Thurber’s Junes, which represents the Snow Bird of the 
Eastern States, with black head and throat, and slaty back 
blending into brown. In the winter they stole about the 
gardens in pairs. In summer and autumn I met with them 
amongst the mountains and in the far north of California. 
The Green-backed and Western Goldfinch frequents the 
roadsides. 
One of the most showy birds that frequents the gardens 
in Pasadena is the Arizona Hooded Oriole, resplendent in 
its plumage of orange-yellow and black. Its nest is made 
entirely of palm fibres, curiously woven together, and is 
hung to the underside of a banana leaf. Near the end of 
June I saw a nest containing two young birds which swung 
about in a very perilous way. The banana leaf was old 
and had bent over till the nest could be reached from the 
ground. 
Another bird of confiding habits that frequents the 
houses is the Black Pewee, a kind of flycatcher, black 
above and white beneath. Its nest is placed like the 
House Martin’s, against the side of the barn. 
The little grey Bush Tit hangs its bottle-like nest to a 
pendant bow of a pepper tree in one of the City Avenues. 
On the west of Pasadena is a valley with steep banks 
and a river bed, dry during most of the year, called the 
Arroyo. Beyond this are hills covered with stiff spinous 
bushes known as chaparral, intersected here and there by 
wooded valleys. 
From these hillsides comes the weird call of the Valley 
Quail, or Californian Partridge, ‘‘cu, cu, cu, pe-check, ah, 
hoy, hoy.” In summer, when the young are strong, thirty 
or forty will sometimes rise together and scatter over the 
scrub. 
Where there are trees there are Woodpeckers. Fourteen 
species are found in California. Of these, I met with 
eight. By far the commonest is the Red-shafted Flicker, 
the western representative of the Golden-winged Wood- 
pecker of the Eastern States. 
One of the most striking birds of California is the Road 
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