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A JOURNEY TO THE STAR LAKE COUNTRY AND OTHER NOTES 
FROM THE TAHOE REGION 
By MILTON S. RAY 
WITH THREE PHOTOS 
T he spring of 1910 at Lake Tahoe was remarkable for being one of the 
earliest known to old settlers. At a time when usually grass in the 
meadows is just springing up and willows and aspens budding out, the 
meadow grass then (May 20) was already fast becoming dry. the willows and 
a.s]>ens were fully leaved, the roads were dusty and the weather sultry, giving 
one the impression of late June. Thus, when I encountered young-of-the-year 
Juncos on the day after my arrival (May 21) I was not greatly surprised: but 
I soon learned that the earliness of the season had not affected all species 
e(|ually, and this, with the usual wide variation in Sierran ne,sting dates, made the 
effect of the early s])ring much less marked than it would have been otherwise. 
My first day afield resulted in finding .some very strange-looking eggs of 
the Redwing lllackbird (Agelaius phoeniccus, subsp?). Instead of the usual 
lilackish scrawls about the larger ends these specimens are mottled, in .some 
cases over the entire surface, with various shades of brown and pale purplish, 
which I hope to describe and illustrate more fully in .some future paper. Among 
other finds were two nests of the Sierra Junco (Jwico hycmalis thnrheri), 
each with four fresh eggs. One of the nests was placed beneath a log in a 
