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June 22nd. Nearly all day after the 

 Grosbeaks with usual luck, several 

 birds seen but nothing indicating 

 nesting, from the limb of a fir about 

 thirty feet up I collected a set and 

 four fresh eggs of the Western Tana- 

 ger, one egg unusually large and 

 other a runt. Several Juncoes con- 

 taining incubated eggs were noted 

 but left alone. 



June 23rd. Worked along the river 

 and located a Cal. Yellow Warbler 

 with incomplete set and heard many 

 Trails Flycatchers; in an open pine 

 I located another nest of Callippe 

 Hummer with small young. While 

 watching a Ruby-crowned Kinglet 

 building in a fir about fifty feet high, 

 I saw a Calliope Hummer go to a 

 nest that was built somewhat differ- 

 ent from others seen. It was on low- 

 est limb of a very large pine and 

 about twelve feet from body of tree 

 and twenty feet from the ground, this 

 was a very hard nest to secure but 

 as I had no eggs of this bird I de- 

 termined to get this one, by cutting 

 down a small tree I managed to get 

 to first limb and started out for he 

 nest but as the limb began to crack I 

 climbed back and hunted up some 

 wire and lashed limb to one above 

 and out I went and though it con- 

 tinued to crack I got that nest and re- 

 turned safely to the ground. 



As stated before, the nest and eggs 

 are very similar to the Anna Hummer 

 and just as large. Much time was 

 spent after Olive-sided Flycatchers 

 and I was rewarded with a fine set of 

 n-4 from fir tree about twenty feet 

 from the ground. Also got today a 

 nest and three eggs of Trails Fly- 

 catcher from some vines on river, lo- 

 cated Russet-backed Thrush with in- 

 complete set. 



June 24th. Rained all night and 

 showers all day, so I kept well along 



roads as I was not desirous of getting 

 wet owing to the fact that I expected 

 to sleep out at night. Two sets n-3 

 of Western Wood Pewee were collect- 

 ed from the low Aspen trees along 

 the road and a fine set n-4 Thick- 

 billed Sparrow from the Derr Brush. 



June 25th. Fully sixty feet from the 

 ground in the top of a large cotton- 

 wood tree a Cooper Hawk had a nest 

 and the limbs were few and far be- 

 tween. I must see what was in that 

 nest and gathering some large spikes 

 from the railroad sheds and about 

 forty feet of rope I managed by spik- 

 ing and roping to get to the nest and 

 found two small young and two pippeci 

 eggs, the bird made one sv/oop at me 

 and she then flew from tree to tree 

 uttering that familiar cak-cak-cak. As 

 I had rope I decided to take the King- 

 let's nest previously found and got it 

 with eight fresh eggs, getting King- 

 let's nest is rather a trying feat, one 

 has to climb the tree well above the 

 nest and then tie a rope and then 

 crawl down and tie tne rope to some 

 other tree and slide down rope after 

 the nest. While packing a Hummer 

 flew past me and went to a nest in 

 open pine, which on climbing I found 

 to contain two young just out of eggs. 

 Two nests of Pileolated Warbler were 

 found with small young, nests were 

 sunk even with ground under bashes. 



June 26th. This was my last chance 

 at Grosbeaks and as I left the hotel 

 five birds, four males and one female 

 were eating at the kitchen door, as 

 they flushed I noted direction they 

 went and worked up after them but 

 never saw a sign of birds during rest 

 of day. From a rocky hillside a female 

 Nighthawk was flushed from a set of 

 two eggs placed in a gravelled place 

 in rocks, found several nests of West. 

 Warbling Vireo and found them with 

 from one to three eggs, incubation far 



