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gan to sing and continued the warblings until 

 a late hour in the afternoon. These daily bird 

 musicales were on a scale that is seldom one's 

 good fortune 'o be a listener to. A street 

 with blocks of canary bird stores facing each 

 side would no more than rival the bird 

 melody in volume and sweetness that was 

 produced by these songsters in their free and 

 wild state. 



These birds are about the size of the Gold 

 Finch or Wild Canary so common about this 



part of the country. The black and yellow 

 markings on the males of both species are 

 somewhat similar. In fact the similarity in 

 size and coloring is sufficient to mislead all 

 but students of bird life in identifying the 

 warbler when it visits our section, but its song 

 is very different and when heard at once 

 marks it a stranger. Besides the Gold Finch 

 is a seed eating bird, while the warbler feeds 

 on insects and is classed as a fly-catcher. 



LAKE OF THE DIABLO COUNTRY CLUB, SHOWING THE BATH HOUSE 



AND PLATFORM 



