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THE CONDOR 
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long distance up the mountain. (See Nidologist, IV, p. 79). On June 14, 1898 I 
had the good fortune to discover a nest opposite the station at FytTe, it being 
built at the end of a small limb of yellow pine 45 feet up. The nest was located 
by searching at random and contained four eggs about one-fourth incubated. This 
set was described at length in The Auk (XVI, pp. 156-161). A half-tone of the 
nest and eggs is shown herewith. While walking through the timber at Fyffe on 
June 8, 1899 M*"- H. W. Carriger came upon a ne.st of this species but 2 j 4 feet up 
in a cedar sapling. It contained four eggs, advanced in incubation. (See 
Condor I, pp. 59-60). A nest containing young about four days old found by 
b}^ Mr. Price’s assistant at Fyffe on June ii, 1897, was placed twelve feet up near 
the top of a small cedar, next to the trunk and well concealed. Thus it is probable 
that Fyffe has afforded more nesting records of this species than has any other 
part of the state. In 1900 Mr. Taylor picked up a warbler’s nest at the foot of a 
large fir tree from which it had evidently fallen. It undoubtedly belonged to 
this species, having the distinctive composition noted in all the ne.st.s observed. 
This is shown very well in the illustration, the inner lining of cedar bark and 
soap-root fiber being always pre.sent. Young birds but a few days out of the nest 
were observed on several occasions, they being of a light gray color, with two 
white wing bands. 
[I have not found the hermit warbler where I thought it breeding above 
6ooo feet, but 1 have collected specimens both on Mt. Tallac and Pyramid Peak as 
high as 9000 feet. The adults are very rare during June and July in the neigh- 
borhood of my camp at Silver Creek, but late in July and early in August a mi- 
gration of the young birds of the year takes place and the species is very abun- 
<lant everywhere in the tamaracks from about 6000 feet to 8000 feet. A hundred 
or more ma}' be counted in an hour’s walk at my camp, 7000 feet, on Silver Creek. 
They are very silent, uttering now and then a “cheep,” and always busy .searching 
among the leaves and cones for insects. Among some fifty collected in the first 
week in August, 1856, there were onl}^ two or three adults. The young males 
have the most coloring, but they in no way approach adult plumage. These great 
flights of the hermit warbler are intermingled with other species, Hammond fly- 
catcher, Calaveras and lutescent warblers, Ca.ssin vireo, and sometimes I<oui.siana 
tanagers and red-breasted nuthatches. Each year the flight has been noted, it 
comes without warning of storm or wind, and after a few days disappears to be 
.seen no more. \V. W. P.] 
Geothlypis tolmiei. Macgillivray Warbler. Found commonly about F3'fl'e and 
as far up as Echo, alwaj’^s frequenting the brushy hillsides where grows the sev- 
eral species of Ceanothus. At Fyffe the species seemed very common in what is 
known as the “burnt district,” — an area which was swept by a forest fire some 
years ago and which has since grown up thickly to deer-brush and cedans. On 
June 9, 1897 a brood of young were travelling about in the brush with their 
parents. A day later Mr. Beck took a nest and four fresh eggs one foot up in a 
.small cedar. On June 14, 1901 I collected two male birds near Echo where they 
were found in the prickly Ceanothus cordulatus, in which they no doubt nest. On 
the whole Macgillivray warbler occupies territory of the same nature as does the 
Calaveras warbler in this region, the two often being found together in the brush. 
[Rather common up to 8000 feet in both the Silver Creek region and on Mt. 
Tallac. W. W. P.] 
Geothlypis trichas occidentalis. Western Yellowthroat. [I have seen a yellow- 
