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ular attention since I noticed in THE Conpor that a set of their eggs had been 
taken at Palo Alto. I know of three junco nests being found about Redwood 
City last summer. These were built about the eaves of oceupied dwellings and 
in one case inside the attic and all of them were of pinosus.’ 
Westward, in sequoian environment, pinosus has been found breeding in 
the vicinity of King Mountain. The late Chester Barlow, under date of May 
16, 1901, wrote me as follows: ‘‘I took a set of four eggs of pinosus near King 
Fig. 39. THE COLOR DESCRIPTIONS OF THE EGGS OF THE SIERRA JUNCO IN THE.PRESENT ARTI- 
CLE ARE BASED UPON THE TEN SETS SHOWN ABOVE. THESE, AS ARRANGED, ARE NUMBERS 15, 
48, 12, 74, 56, 33, 38, 53, 42, 30, READING LEFT TO RIGHT. 
Mountain last Sunday. I shot the female parent, which does not differ from 
breeding birds taken farther south in the range’”’ 
Southward from Stanford in the redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Moun- 
tains pinosus is the only form of the genus recorded by Richard C. MeGregor 
in his ‘‘Birds of Santa Cruz County”’ (p. 14), while eastward from Stanford 
and Palo Alto a wide sweep of salt marsh runs out to San Francisco Bay, a re- 
gion wholly unsuitable for birds of this character. 
San Francisco, July 28, 1919. 
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