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under a certain tree — so faint as not to be recognized as being- 

 made by a hummingbird — but after seeing this female so 

 close to the place our suspicions were aroused and we finally 

 succeeded in locating a nest, finding it to contain two young 

 almost ready to fly, and proving beyond doubt that the Cal- 

 liope Hummingbird was breeding in this locality. The parent 

 of this nest and the two young are respectively Nos. 19957, 

 19958 and 19954, C. A. S. The nest was saddled on a small 

 dead limb, close to where it came out of a bunch of larger 

 limbs that were alive, and situated in such a way that it was 

 well sheltered from sun or rain by the largest limb of all. 

 Barring the mountains in extreme northern and southern 

 California, this is the first absolutely reliable, published record 

 of the nesting of this species west of the Sierras and below 

 4000 feet altitude. 



Returning to the earlier visit to Glenbrook, on the morning 

 of April 30 I went up the old road to Adams' Springs before 

 spoken of to a little way past the nearest summit. The first 

 mile of this road at this end is entirely in the brush country, 

 manzanita, white lilac, chaparral, etc., which here is inter- 

 spersed with the Macnab cypress (Cupressus magnabiana). 

 Very few birds were seen until some timber near the summit 

 of the road was reached, in which were some vireos and 

 warblers, and among the latter was a male Calaveras Warbler 

 {Vermivora riificapilla gutttiraUs) , which was the only one 

 noted on the whole trip. Just beyond this stretch of woods 

 lay an open hillside field of perhaps ten acres in extent covered 

 with short green grass, near the middle of which was a 

 swampy spot, of maybe one acre or less, that was occupied by 

 a small colony of red-winged blackbirds. Being high up in 

 the hills, and surrounded by forest and brush, it was about 

 the last place in which one would expect to run across these 

 birds. 



There were several small colonies of them scattered through 

 Cobb Valley wherever swampy. Several specimens were 

 taken, in the valley and on the mountainside, which seem to 

 be in no way different from the Bicolored Red-wing (Agelaius 

 phoenicens calif ornicus) of Marin and Sonoma counties bor- 

 dering on San Francisco Bay. 



Both Audubon's Warbler (Dendroica auduboni auduboni) , 

 and the Black-throated Gray Warbler (Dendroica nigrescens) 



