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notes of a silvery sweetness “chcterec, cheteree, cheteree." I have heard the win- 
ter sonja^ of this bird along- the coast but it hears little comparison in richness and 
inelod}- to that heard here in its sninnier home. 
At the .A.l-Tahoe marsh on June lo a second nest of the Sora Rail was found, 
with thirteen eggs in varying stages of incubation. The nest, of dry tides, was 
Fig. .37. Nest .\nu ]3ggs ok the Wilson Phalarope, Photographed 
June 19, 1909, Near Rake Tahoe: thick Grass, Originally 
Standing in Front ok Nest, Cut Away to Afkord 
an Unobstructed View 
laced to tides above water three feet deep. As with the nest of the Phalarope 
it was necessary to cut away some of the thick growth to make a successful 
jiicture. Pesides the nest of the rail two noteworthy ones of the Red-winged 
Black'bird were found. One held the rather rare complement of five eggs; the 
other, a set of four, contained two infertile runts, which in every res])ect but size 
