The Townsend Solitaire 
sustained as with this species, lasting as it does for several minutes, some¬ 
times without a break.” 
And here is an appreciation in which the bird is surely as much 
indebted to the poet as the poet to the bird. It is from the gifted pen of 
Forrest S. Hanford: 2 ‘‘So rare a singer is the Solitaire that during my 
mountain rambles, extending over a period of thirteen years, I have heard 
the song on only five occasions. The first time was in the forenoon of 
one of those bright, exquisite days of early spring at Lake Tahoe, when the 
warring elements 
Taken on Ml. Shasta 
Photo by the Author 
A NOT-QUITE-SO-CLOSE-UP 
ANOTHER NEST, ALSO AT THE BASE OF A SHASTA FIR 
truce and were at rest for a time. The little shadowy canyon wherein I 
rested enjoyed a hushed and solemn tranquility not diminished, but 
rather added to, by a drowsy murmuring from a bright brook splashing 
on its way to the lake. This, I thought, could be none other than the 
haunt of a Solitaire, and I wished that 1 might see the bird; and as in 
answer to my prayer came one, a small gray ghost of a bird that flitted 
silently in and out of the leafy corridors of its retreat, finally resting on 
2 Condor, Vol. XIX., Jan., 1917. pp. 13 - 14 - 
