January in Berkeley. 



the year, although less abundant during 

 the summer months. The California 

 brown towhee is another very common 

 resident, remaining with us both in 

 summer and winter. He is consider- 

 ably larger than a sparrow, although 

 belonging in the same family, and is 

 very soberly dressed in brown. His 

 sprightly ways and domestic haunts 

 make him a familiar and entertaining 

 dooryard neighbor. 



The trees are inhabited by a gay 

 colony of birds at this season, free from 

 all care save that of obtaining suffi- 

 cient food. Among the commonest of 

 them are the snowbird (more properly 

 called Oregon junco), the western 

 golden and the ruby-crowned kinglet, 

 the western and the varied robins and 

 the ever present wren-tit. The snow- 

 bird, or Oregon junco, is exclusively 

 a winter visitor, nesting in the Sierra 

 Nevada and Coast Range Mountains. 

 He is a sociable little fellow of the spar- 

 row tribe, always found in flocks during 

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