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INDEX. 



call note, 92. 



common and tame, 92. 



nesting, 93, 94. 



shy at nest, 93-94. 



song, 93. 



Towhee, Green-tailed, 102-103. 

 Townee, Spurred, 18, 100, 102. 



singing, 109. 

 Trade wind, 08-09. 

 Trees, 



acacia, 189. 



elder, 15. 



eucalyptus, 211-220 ; character of, 

 213-214, 219-220; grove, 211- 

 220 ; raised for fuel, 211. 



live-oaks, 5, G, 21, 86, 159-170 ; 

 garden of, 159-100, 170 ; sapped 

 by mistletoe, 107. 



pepper, 197. 



sycamore, 15, 21, 24-25, 07, 08 ; 

 the big, 112-122, 159. 



tobacco, 88. 



willow, 123. 



Turkey Buzzard. See Vulture. 

 Turtle Dove. See Dove. 

 Twin Oaks Canyon, 5-0, 159. 



Ughland Canyon, 21, 38, 123, 159. 



Vineyard, birds eating grubs in, 12- 



13. 

 Vireo, Button's, 140-140. 



a devoted pair, 142. 



building, 142, 145. 



call note, 145. 



fond of nest, 143, 145. 



nest, 144. 



nesting site, 141, 144. 

 Vireo, Least, 



song, 6, 44, 109. 

 Vireo, Warbling, 27, 59. 



building, 50. 



scolding jay, GO. 

 Vulture, Turkey, 1C, 97-98, 1G2. 



circle over fighting snakes, 97. 



eating woodpecker, 70. 



eating skunk, 201. 



queer attitude, 98. 



scavenger, 97. 



soaring, 97, 98. 



Warbler, 160. 



migrants, 0, 7, 123. 

 Waxwing, 09. 



Whip-poor-will. See Poor-will. 

 Woodpecker, California, 65-80, 81, 

 123. 



building, 28. 



flycatching, 160. 



hunting ground distant from nest, 

 69. 



long intervals in feeding, 69. 



lying in wait for prey, 141. 



nesting site, 28, 71. 



notes, 09. 



old birds poisoned (?), 70. 



rescuing the young, 71-73. 



young orphans, inherited instincts, 



75, 70, 78, 79 ; notes, 78. 

 Woodpecker, Red-headed, 00, 09. 

 Wood rat, 



in chaparral, 55. 

 Wren, 9-10. 

 Wren, Vigors's, 170-174. 



linnets quarreling over materials, 



nesting site, 171. 



young buried alive by linnets (?), 



172-174. 

 Wren, Western House, 20-37, 05, 07, 



69, 81, 84, 112, 117, 123, 100, 



219. 



building, 22, 25, 30, 90, 128. 

 common birds, 95. 

 feeding young on insects, 31. 

 nesting takes six weeks, 35. 

 nests in sycamore holes, 22, 128. 

 odd nesting sites, 95. 

 song, 22, 30, 96, 97. 

 tremulous motion of wings, 30, 33 



Yellow-bird. See Goldfinch. 

 Young birds, 

 Bluebird, 185. 

 Brewer's Blackbird, 87. 

 Burrowing Owl, 11-12. 

 Bush-tit, 28, 110, 111. 

 California Jay, 85. 

 California Woodpecker, 69-80. 

 feather tracts, 79. 

 fed at long intervals, 155. 

 fed on insects, 31 , 30, 70, 82. 

 first flights, 36, 73-74, 88, 156. 

 Gnatcatchers, 63-64. 

 Honied Owl, 9. 

 Hummingbird, 23, 24, 88, 155-157, 



217, 219. 



interest in each other, 78, 79. 

 Lazuli Bunting, 189-193, 217; 



adopted by wren-tit, 189-193. 

 Mourning Dove, 47. 

 Owl, 137. 

 Sparrow Hawk, 135 ; subdued on 



leaving nest, 36 ; time kept in 



nest, 69. 



Titmouse, 182-183. 

 Vigors's Wren, 171, 172, 174. 

 Western House Wren, 33-37. 



