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sooty than the Eastern congener, and the 
spurred towhee, resembling our chewink and 
of equally cheerful disposition. There are 
also a Western gnatcatcher, a Western ruby- 
crowned kinglet, a Western blackcap—the 
pileolated,—and Audubon’s warbler, which is 
merely a westernised myrtle bird. These 
four migrate down the Pacific Slope to Mex- 
ico and are as abundant in the tulipans 
and guavas of the State of Morelos as in the 
live oaks here. From Alaska comes the 
golden-crowned sparrow—like all of his race 
a sad-voiced bird—to winter round about 
Eden, while the redshafted flicker, the West- 
ern counterpart of the highhole, is as native 
to the live-oak belt as to the aspen-covered 
slopes of the Rocky Mountains. 
Some birds are cosmopolites; others, fa- 
miliar spirits of the grove. Among the lat- 
ter are the California towhee, California 
jay, California woodpecker, and California 
thrasher. This towhee is a demure and 
domestic-looking bird, attired more like the 
green-tailed towhee than like the tribe of 
chewinks, but possessing none of the green- 
tail’s power of song. The jay is an un- 
crested bird, less pert than our bluejay, but 
every whit a jay, none the less. His voice is 
