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A second nest, in a somewhat similar situation, was discovered, 

 unfinished, on June 8. Both birds were around at that time, hut they 

 deserted this home before any eggs were laid. 



The solitaires did not sing much but the call note was uttered con- 

 tinually. From our rooms in town at Telegraph Creek, this was one 

 bird note that could be heard hour after hour, monotonously repeated 

 nearly the whole day through. To our ears it sounded so nearly like 

 the distant barking of a California ground squirrel (Citellus heecheyi) 

 that the sound would surely have been disregarded as a bird call had 

 we been in a region where the squirrels occur. 



Fig. PF. 

 placed in a 

 full benefit 

 1919. 



Townsend solitaire (Myadestes townsendi) on nest. This nest was 

 cut bank at the side of»a road, a southern exposure that received the 

 of the sun 's rays. Photograph taken near Telegraph Creek, June 9, 



At Glenora, early in July, and at Doch-da-on Creek, toward the end 

 of the same month, solitaires were seen at intervals, single birds, and 

 apparently migrating, though nearly all that were seen were still in 

 the Juvenal plumage. "While none was observed by us any farther 

 down the river, the capture of one at "Wrangell on April 30, 1919, by 

 E. P. Walker (no. 41286) indicates the possible occurrence of the 

 species at any point in the Stikine Valley during the migrations. 



Two specimens were collected, a male and a female, both in juvenal 

 plumage, taken at Glenora on July 5 and 7, respectively (nos. 40286, 

 40287) . Compared with Californian birds at the same stage, the Stikine 

 River specimens show some difference in coloration. The ground color 



