The Townsend Solitaire 
Taken in Fresno County Photo by the Author 
YOUNG SOLITAIRES IN NEST 
character, remind¬ 
ing one more of the 
breathless rhapsody 
of the Lark Spar¬ 
row than the meas¬ 
ured accents of a 
Thrush. 
Nesting seems 
to take place at all 
levels, but it is, per¬ 
haps, most easily 
studied in the dark 
belt of Shasta firs 
which surrounds 
the mountain just 
below the snow line. 
The birds, indeed, 
appear to court the 
Taken in Fresno County 
Photo by the Author 
A NESTING SITE ON KINGS RIVER 
AN X AT THE UPPER RIGHT HAND MARKS THE EXACT SPOT 
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