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grass for lining. Bird gave the dong or creak note after we had taken the nest. 
Male afterwards sang snatches of song in the distance, but neither put in an ap- 
pearance. 
This makes the sixth set of Townsend Solitaire which we have taken in ten 
days. It is altogether probable that this species is the commonest and best dis- 
tributed in the Shasta fir belt and the mixed belt immediately below. If we 
reckon the belt at three miles wide and fifty long, and allow for each pair of birds 
aun area one-quarter of a mile square, we have fifteen hundred as the Solitaire 
population of Shasta, a figure I believe to be well within the mark.. 
Mr. Vrooman was particularly successful in finding old nests, as well as 
Fig. 5. NESTING SITE IN DWARF MANZANITA. LOCA- 
TION OF NEST 218/4-16 IS INDICATED BY WHITE X, 
new. He showed me another ancient relic in a rotten stump three feet up, and 
told me of four which he had found in upturned roots of fallen trees. Besides ; 
this he showed me an abandoned claim in a cranny formed by a broken but not 
completely severed tree, where the birds had deposited a few twigs, a bit of moss 
and several blades of grass. The evidence was scanty but sufficient. But also 
the cause of dissatisfaction was manifest, for the quarters were quite too narrow. 
Santa Barbara, August 4, 1916: Having still to blow the eggs of V150/ 
3-16 T. S., I pause to note exact colorings. In ground color the three eggs repre- 
sent the two types of coloration spoken of by Grinnell in his San Bernardino Re- 
