Sept, 1912 DISCOVERY OF NEST AND EGGS OF CALIFORNIA PINE GROSBEAK 
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more were seen in that locality, but in July of the same summer I saw two or 
three individuals in fir woods on Pyramid Peak, but secured none. 
“Last summer, 1896, I again visited Pyramid Peak, and was fortunate in 
getting a fine series of Pinicola, 20 specimens in all, and of which all but 4 were 
available for examination in making the present report. I was assisted in my 
field work by Mr. C. S. Dole and Mr. P. O. Simons, and to their efiforts is greatly 
due the large and interesting series. 
“The greater number of adults were taken on the edges of Alpine pastures 
where salt is placed on fallen logs for stock. The Pine Grosbeak visits these ‘salt 
licks’ in company with Cassin’s Purple Finch and the Western Evening Grosbeak, 
and was at all times exceedingly fearless and unsuspicious. The males have a 
p'ig. 62. UPPER PORTION OF THE FORNI MEADOW, LOOKING NORTH; THE FORNI CABINS 
CAN BE SEEN AT THE EXTREME UPPER END TOWARDS THE BASE OF PYRAMID 
peak; photographed on our first visit JULY 7, 1902, ON WHICH 
DATE THE SNOW HAD ALMOST ENTIRELY DISAPPEARED 
very pleasing song, and hearing it upon one occasion, 1 thought it resembled the 
song of CarpodacHS cassini. Their call note is not loud and grating like the note 
of the Evening Grosbeak. 
“They breed late, as attested by two nestlings brought to me July 29, by a 
camper, who found them on the lower branches of a fir in a wild glen at the 
western base of Pyramid Peak, at about 9000 feet elevation. He did not see 
any nest, nor did the parent birds put in an appearance. The same day Mr. 
Dole and Mr. Simons each obtained a young specimen, perhaps five days older. 
They could fly quite easily. On August 3, while collecting in a forest of fir 
east of Pyramid Peak. Mr. Dole obtained two additional young, which were 
