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Vol. XIV 
find of importance was a nest of the Wdiite-crowned Sparrow, with four eggs 
advanced in incubation. It was placed 28 inches np in a lodge-pole pine sap- 
ling, and made of weed stems and lined with fine grasses and horsehair. 
The most important find on the meadow was a nest of the Cassin Purple 
h'inch [Carpadacus cassiiii) with three eggs in a .state of advanced incubation. 
The nest was placed on almost the top branch of a pine, about thirty feet np, 
on the edge of the meadow. It was of particnlar interest as nests of cassiiii 
are not often located or easy to reach, and the birds being also quick to desert 
and the nesting season a long one make it difficult to obtain a proper set of eggs. 
Although 1 have spent a number of summers at Lake Tahoe cassini, oologically. 
is still unrepresented in my cabinet, and when Carriger called from the tree-top 
that the nest held three well-incubated eggs 1 felt that another Tahoean oological 
mile post had been passed. Carriger also examined two nests of the Audubon 
Idg. 61. conu CUIOKK MIOADOWS IN LATN .JUNN: ELEVATION 7500 FIOEl'; 
KREEirS PEAK AND .lOB'S SISTER IN BACKGROUND 
W'arbler ( Dcndroica atidiiboni aiiduboiii) . each with four fresh eggs, and two of 
the Sierra Jnnco, each with five fresh. 
In a lodge-pole jdne twenty feet up, placed on the end of the bough. 1 
found another nest of the Cassin Pnrple h'inch with four fully-fledged young. 
.\ot to mention numerous nests of the We.stern Robin and Western Chipping 
Sparrow, the only other of note I found was one of the Audubon Warbler with 
fonr fresh eggs. 
On June 6 I noted two very early nests for this elevation of the House 
h'inch iCarpodaciis inc.vicanns frontalis) placed in lodge-pole pines twelve and 
fifteen feet iq), both with five fresh eggs, heater in the day I fonnd four eggs, 
incui)ation advanced, of the White-crowned Sparrow, and four eggs, fresh, of 
the Sierra Hermit Thrush. A nest of the Western Chipping Sparrow {Spisiclla 
socialis ari::onac) was collected with a set of four eggs one of which was an in- 
fertile runt measuring only .55x.43 : the others were normal averaging .71x.53. 
