SUMMER BIRDS OF THE 

 REDWOODS. 



MONO the coast valleys 

 and lower mountain ranges 

 of northern California flour- 

 ishes the peerless redwood 

 tree, second only to the big trees of the 

 Sierra Nevada valleys. In the more 

 northern portions of its range it grows 

 in vast forests, but in Sonoma County, 

 and thence southward to San Francisco 

 Bay, and below, its domain is invaded 

 by the oaks, madrono, manzanita and 

 chaparral. In this region during the 

 midsummer season, when the fog hangs 

 in an almost perpetual curtain over San 

 Francisco Bay and the land adjacent to 

 it, it is a delight to slip away among the 

 secluded redwood groves and see what 

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