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GAME BIRDS OF CALIFORNIA 



Table 18— Data Eelative to the Nesting of the Band-tailed Pigeon 

 in California 



Locality Date Contents or Nest Authoeitv 



Laguna Mts., "20 miles Mar. 6, 1877 1 egg (near hatching) Stephens (1913, p. 129) 



north of Campo," San 



Diego Co. 

 Pine Mt., 3,250 ft., May 3, 1901 2 eggs (fresh) 



San Diego Co. 

 Pine Mt., 3,250 ft., May 11, 1902 1 egg (incubation well Sharp (1903, p. 16) 



San Diego Co. advanced) 



San Jacinto Mts., at 6,500 May 14, 1897 1 squab (just hatched) Gilman (1903, p. 134) 



ft., Eiyerside Co. 

 San Jacinto Mts., at 6,500 May 14, 1897 1 squab (half-grown) 



ft.. Riverside C3o. 

 Mt. Wilson, 5,500 ft.. May 23, 1897 1 egg (considerably 



Los Angeles Co. incubated) 



Cuyamaca Mts., 4 miles June 4, 1896 Adult bird on nest, but 



south of Julian, San ' not flushed 



Diego Co. 

 Palomar Mts., June 21, 1910 1 egg 



San Diego Co. . 

 Pine Mt., 3,250 ft., June 24, 1902 1 egg (incub. far adv.; Sharp (1903, p. 16) 



San Diego Co. same nest as May 11, 



1902) 

 North Peak, Cuyamaca Ju'y 1 (about) 2 squabs in one nest 



Mts., San Diego Co. . 191,0 , , 



San Jacinto Mts., at Pul- July 1, 1908 1 egg (incubation 



ler's Mill, 5,900 ft., " "' 



Riverside Co. 

 Near Woodside, 



San Mateo Co. 

 Mt. Wilson, 5,500 ft., 



Los Angeles Co, 

 Lagunitas, Marin Co. 



Barley Flats, ,5,600. ft., 



Los Angeles Co. 

 Barley Plats, 5,600' ft., 



Los Angeles Co. 

 Big Bear Lake, 



San Bernardino Mts. 

 Near Redwood City, 



San Mateo Co. 



slight) 



July 3, 1914 1 squab 



July 5, 1894 1 squab (about one 



week old), 

 July 30, 1912 1 egg (incubation 



far advanced) 

 Last of July, 1 young (able to fly) 



1888 

 Last of July. 1 young (able to fly) 



1888 

 Aug. 11, 1913 1 egg (nearly fresh) 



Sharp (1903, p. 16) 



Gilman (1903, p. 134) 



Grinnell (1898, p. 20) 



Albert M. IngersoU 

 (in letter) 



Huey (1913, p. 152) 



Huey (1913, p. 152) 



Grinnell and Swarth 

 (1913, p. 233) 



(Sent to State Game 



Farm, Hay ward) 

 Grinnell (1858, p. 20) 



J. Mailliard (1912, 



p. 194) 

 Antonin Jay (in letter) 



Antoniai Jay (in letter) 



Pierce (1913, p. 227) 



Aug. 23, 1914 1 e^K (half incubated) Chase Littlciohn 



(in letter) 



ness in two recorded instances was one and four inches, respectively 

 (Sharp, 1903, p. 16; Grinnell, 1913, p. 31). Sometimes as few as 16 

 or 18 twigs are all that go to make up the nest (Huey, 1913, p. 152), 

 and again there may be more than a hundred (nest in Mus. Vert. 

 Zool.). The twigs range from a sixteenth to a quarter of an inch in 

 diameter and are of various lengths. They are laid across one another, 

 with little or no weaving, forming a platform with numerous inter- 

 stitial spaces. A slight lining of pine needles was found in one nest 

 (Sharp, 1903, p. 16). As Gilman (1903, p. 134) well says, it is a 

 marvel how an egg can be kept warm enough to hatch while resting 

 on such an airy platform in the cool air of a high altitude. The nest 

 site, which is almost always on top of a large horizontal limb, seems 

 to be so selected .that the incubating bird may flush directly and 

 rapidly from the nest when danger threatens. 



Of the actual construction of the nest, Willard, writing .of an 

 observation in Arizona (1916, pp. 110-111), says: 



