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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



of several accentuated notes, so modulated as to suggest 

 a query, and at the proper and measured interval, its 

 reply. This dignified and emphatic refrain resounds 

 rather loudly through the incense cedars and black oaks, 

 forming an appropriate accompaniment for the shrill 

 songs of the warblers. 



This is surely a paradise for the warblers, using this 

 last term in the restricted sense as designating a certain 

 family of small foliage-frequenting birds. No less than 

 eight species were in evidence on the valley floor, all 

 doubtless nesting, though not all in exactly the same 

 places. The "rare" hermit warbler, with yellow head 

 and black throat, was not rare at all in certain stretches 

 of young yellow pines and black oaks. One was seen 

 hurriedly gathering nest material from the roadside; but 

 she laid her zigzag course too far off among the trees to 

 be followed successfully, and we had to give her up. The 

 hoarse-toned drawl of the black-throated gray warbler 

 indicated its presence wherever the dense-foliaged golden 

 oaks clothe the talus slopes, as up the Yosemite Falls 

 trail. 



Audubon warblers were as common high in the lodge- 

 pole pines of Eagle Peak Meadows and Little Yosemite 

 as on the valley floor, and thus bore the distinction of 

 ranging through as great an altitude as the golden pileo- 

 lated warbler, which we saw in the willow thickets on 

 the Happy Isles trail, and in a patch of leafless poplars 

 close to snow-banks in Eagle Peak Meadows, 3000 feet 

 above. The California yellow warbler adhered closely 

 to the deciduous trees of the valley floor, though con- 

 trariwise the only nest we found was in a young incense 

 cedar. The MacGillivray warbler was found only in the 

 willow thickets and fern patches on the valley floor. One 

 Western yellowthroat was closely observed. May 29th, at 

 the margin of a meadov/ near Stoneman Bridge. 



The find productive of intensest delight was a nesting 

 site of the Calaveras warbler. Several of the birds were 

 seen, always along the foot of the cliffs, and one day, 



