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senible the set of eggs I have of the Gray-crowned Rosy Finch. The specimens 

 easily equal in glossiness any eggs in my series of the Modoc Woodpecker or 

 Williamson Sapsucker, and measure in inches as follows : .95x.63, .83x.60, .95x 

 .64, .97x.60 (Davie gives average size of eggs of the Cliff Swallow as .82x.56). 



At dusk we reached Phillips' Station, where much of the country was still 

 covered by deep snow, and next evening, June 11, we made Forni's at the base 

 of Pyramid Peak. Here too the whole region lay under deep snow. In some 

 places the drifts were of such depth that the bare willows and other small trees 

 were almost completely buried. Carriger located a nest of the Mountain Chicka- 

 dee near Phillips' with seven (well spotted) eggs, another near Forni's with 

 eight, and still another near our cabin the day following with six ; all three sets 



Pig. 8. Nest of Siekka Junco, at Phillips', in the Sierkas of Eldorado 

 County, California, placed in absolutely open view in the corner of 

 an empty box. this site may have been selected on account of the 

 deep snow which at this date (june 13) covered the ground all 



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were fresh. He also found eight feet up among strips of the bark of a fir, a nest 

 of the Sierra Creeper (CertJiia familiaris zelotes), made of fine twigs, soft gray- 

 ish bark fibers, moss and soft bits of wood, and containing two fresh eggs. Later 

 he excavated a dwelling of the Williamson Sapsucker, shown in the illustration 

 (fig. 7), which proved but newly drilled. The only other nest found was by the 

 writer, a freshly built one of the Blue-fronted Jay {Cyanocitta stelleri frontalis). 

 Littlejohn closed the day's work by bowling over a lone coyote in the snow. 



One June 13, on the way back to Phillips', Littlejohn noted for a second 

 time the Tolmie Warbler (Oporornis tolmiei) , and at Phillips' Carriger and I 

 came upon a nest of the Sierra Junco {Junco oreganus tJiurberi) that would 

 have gladdened the heart of a novice. Close to the hotel the birds had built in 



