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small lods^epole pine the lords were using the material of last year's abode, which 
hung- from the tip of a loft\- ])ine branch a hundred feet away. 
W hile a much more restricted area, to lower elevation and more time aheld 
I attribute the fact that we recorded a greater variety of birdlife at Phillips’ Sta- 
tion than at Forni's. W’e found many nests at Phillips' l)Ut none were of any great 
rarity, being limited to those of die Western Robin, Sierra Junco and Audubon 
Warbler with both eggs and young, those of tlie Alountaiii Chickadee with young 
only, and of the Sierra llermit Thrush and Western Wood Pewee with eggs or 
building. 
On June 15, after our return to Bijou on the shore of Lake Tahoe, 1 found 
a deserted sulimerged nest of the Wdlson I’halaroiie {Stcganopus tricolor) at 
Rowland's iMarsh, with four eggs. The shells of these on examination proved to 
be verv Hexible : whether the condition was due to some peculiarity of the eggs 
Eig. .54. Desolation Vallev, SOOO to 8.500 feet altitude, near Pyramid 
Peak, liLDORADO County, California 
themselves or to the water in which thev had lain for some time, I am not prepared 
to sav. The day following, southwest of Bijou, 1 located a nest of the Ruliy- 
crowned Kinglet with four pijiiied eggs and three young, just out. Tliree other 
nests of this bird, one found June 23 at Phillips' with seven eggs, one June 28 
near Star Lake and another near the Sierra House July i, each with seven young, 
show this number to be a (|uite common comjilement. A nest of the Common 
House Finch (Carpodacus iiic.vicainis frontalis) ivas noted June 18, two eggs out 
of which were rather uniciuely marked, the usual blackish s])Ots and scrawls being 
replaced liy those of a light brownish. 
From june 19 to 24 was consumed in making a second journey to Pyramid 
Peak to collect a nest, previously found, of F^ciicostictc. With the exception of 
this, few notable nests were taken on the triji. One of the Sierra Junco was 
