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or more, four birds whose call, form and flight none of us could identify. That 

 they were new for the Lake Valley check-list we all felt sure. Little John, with 

 a really remarkable shot, succeeded in bringing down one of the birds, which 

 proved to be a Piny on Jay (Cyanocephalus cyanocephalus) , the first we had 

 ever seen in the field. 



In meadow land on June 6, we noted the Wilson Snipe (Gallinago delicata). 

 This is the second time I have seen this bird in the region, and it is not unlikely 

 that it will be found nesting here. A long day afield yielded no collectable speci- 

 mens, except a nest of the Audubon Warbler, found by Carriger, with five well 

 incubated eggs, all the others being of the more common species which already 

 had full representation in our cabinets. 



Fig. 7. Henry W. Carriger chopping out a newly drilled nest-cavity 

 of the Williamson Sapsucker; Forni's, 8000 feet, near Pyramid 

 Peak, Eldorado County, California, June 12. 



On June 7, although we invaded new territory, what we found was a repeti- 

 tion of previous outings: nests of the Audubon Warbler, Red-shafted Flicker, 

 Sierra Red-breasted Sapsucker and Williamson Sapsucker. The typical nest of 

 the latter here is in a trunk of sound wood outwardly, but soft in the interior. In 

 one place some of the trees had been used for years and contained many entrances 

 to former nests and many blind holes. I do not believe the latter are excavated 

 for use as decoy cavities, but believe that they are rather the result of the birds 

 finding the wood too sound for easy penetration. 



June 8 was full of surprises. The first of these came when I found a nest 

 of the Calliope Hummingbird. This held one fresh egg, and was seven feet up on 



