INDEX. 



225 



Oriole, 27, 104, 130, 131. 



Oriole, Arizona Hooded, 



building, 89. 

 Oriole, Bullock's, 102. 



attacking an owl, 139. 



nest, 117. 



song night, 184. 

 Owl, 105, •215-210. 



asleep in window, 137. 



diet of rats and mice, 137. 



hiding in wells and mining shafts, 

 137, 138. 

 Owl, Bain, 



an old crone, 139. 



nesting site, 139. 

 Owl, Burrowing, 119, 212. 



battles with a collie, 11, 12. 



feeding young, 11, 12. 



nest not shared with rattlesnakes, 

 11. 



screws head off, 11. 

 Owl, Western Horned, 



devices to protect young, 8, 9. 



mobbed by neighbors, 138. 



Pewee, Wood, 101-102. 



building, 57, 59, 01. 



nesting site, 57, 00. 



nest moved, 00. 



perch, 02, 101. 

 Phainopepla, 194-210. 



a distinguished bird, 194. 



building (done by male), 199, 203, 

 204, 205, 20G. 



call, 205. 



eating pepper berries in door-yard, 

 197. 



nest, 205. 



nesting site, 199. 



song, 205. 

 Phcebe, Black, 115, 128-130, 189. 



brooding under a pump, 129. 



in the hen-house, 130. 



nest, 130. 



nesting site, 117, 128-129, 130. 

 Pipit, American, 10. 

 Pond, made by spring rains, 



rendezvous of birds, 5, 14-17. 

 Poor-will, Dusky, 



call, 101-102. 



rlycatching, 101. 



Quail, Valley, 

 call, 5. 



night of covey, 30. 

 in chaparral, 55. 

 in vineyard, 73. 

 tracks, 43. 



Rabbit, 



cottontail, 94, 118, 104. 

 jack, 5, 29, 94-95, 97. 



Road-runner, 98-101. 



around ranch-house, loo 



drowned in windmill tanks, 100, 



eating with hens, 100. 



Heetness, 98. 



hunting cocoons, loo. 



love call, 101. 



nest, 99, 210. 

 Robin, 8, 92. 



Shrike, White-rumped, 124-127, 128. 



absence of birds in neighborhood, 

 120. 



building, 125, 120-127. 



gentle at nest, 125, 120. 



invading blackbird premises, 124- 

 125. 



nest, 125. 



nesting site, 125, 127 

 Snakes, 



gopher, 43, 71, 120, 187-188. 



racer, 108. 



rattle, 43, 120, 121, 203. 



ringed, 55. 



water, 15. 

 Sparrow. 15. 



Sparrow, Golden-crowned, 1G. 

 Sparrow, Song, 21, 22, 117. 



nest, 83-84. 



young, 83. 

 Sparrow, White-crowned, 1G, 1G2. 

 Squirrels, ground, 11. 

 Swallow, 9G. 

 Swallow, Eave, 



drinking on wing, 17. 



getting mud for nests, 10-17. 



nests on sycamore, 114. 



Tanager, Louisiana, 27. 



a brilliant stranger, 131. 

 Thrasher, California, 103-104. 

 digging with sickle-shaped bill, 1G3- 



1G4. 

 in chaparral, G. 

 song, 0, 109. 



straight bills of young, 1G4. 

 Titmouse, Plain, 141, 184, 175-183. 

 building, 175-182. 

 gladly accepts feathers, 177. 

 needs no horsehair or straw, 179- 



181. 

 nesting sites, 175. 

 song. 175. 

 Tit, Wren-, 57, GO, 02, 189-193. 



breaking up gnatcatcher's nest, 



45, 40, 48. 

 skulking manners, 49, 59. 

 song, 0, 109. 



usurping a mother's rights, 189- 

 193. 

 Towhee, California, 28, 40, 47, 57, 

 58, 59, 92-95, 103, 189, 200. 



