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up, held two fresh eggs. I succeeded in getting a photo of this nest (see fig. 47). 
Both nests were found by watching the birds. Both were small and rather poorly 
made, of weed fibres. This hummingbird was quite common, but further search for 
nests was unsuccessful as usually the birds would dart off into the top of the high pines 
and firs anywhere from seventy-five to over a hundred feet up, at which distances one 
could not follow them. 
Sayornis nigricans. Black Phoebe. Seen several times on June 23 in a little can- 
yon near Pine Knot Lodge, and again on the same date near the dam. 
Empidonax wrighti. Wright Flycatcher. Wright Flycatchers were very common 
all through the western end of the valley, frequenting the buckthorn from the lake 
shore up into the little canyons and even up to the higher ridges. I failed to find any 
of these birds about the east end of Bear Lake or about Baldwin Lake. Many nests 
Fig. 47. Nest of Calliope Hummingbird, thirty feet above the ground; near Bear 
Lake, San Bernardino Mountains, June 24, 1916 
were located, nearly always in buckthorn from 2 to 3 feet up (see fig. 48). Two nests 
were found in manzanita and three in oak bushes. The sets were uniformly of four 
eggs. On June 22 nests with large young were found, and others with fresh eggs on 
the same date. Two nests just being built were discovered on June 29. Probably the 
later sets were caused by the first nests being destroyed. This seems to happen often, 
as several nests under observation were undoubtedly robbed by the chipmunks which 
infest all the brush in great numbers in this region. 
Passerella iliaca stephensi. Stephens Fox Sparrow. Considerable time was spent 
in trying to locate a nest of this species, but without results except that I am almost 
certain it nests either on the ground or very low down under the thick brush. Nesting 
