Man, 1914 
SOME DISCOVERIES IN THE FOREST AT FVFFE 
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held two eggs, and while I was unable to reach it I felt quite sure of being able 
to do so next day with proper equipment. 
With a long rope swung from a bough above I succeeded in getting witliin 
a few feet of my unknown nest next morning (May 15), but closer proximity to 
the eggs, which liow numbered three, was unnecessaiAn Tlie owner lit close by 
and proved to be that most common bird of these altitudes, the Western Chipping 
Sparrow, which usually, however, nests in very low situations. C.'hester Barlow 
and other writers relate, too, how they have had similar and rather laughable 
experiences endeavoring to reach nests, almost inaccessible and of apparent rar- 
ity, which afterwards turned out to be of this exceedingly common species. 
Most of the day was spent in Webber Canyon, wdiere a number of Western 
Fig. 27. Nest and Eggs of the Hermit Warbler, the rarest of the .Sierran 
WARBLERS. This nest was situated in a yew growing in the dense forest 
NORTH OF FyFFE. ThE SET SHOWN IS THE’fIRST TO BE FOUND CONTAINING FIVE EGGS. 
Winter Wrens (Nanniis hieinalis pacificus) were noted. Two Band-tailed Pigeons 
{Colimiba fasciata) , flying high in an easterly direction, were also seen. Two 
ne.sts of the Black-headed Grosbeak {Zamclodia mclanocephala capitalist, a bird 
which is very abundant here, were also noted, one with three fre.sh eggs and one 
building. Along the south bank of Webber Creek, six and a half feet up in a 
small cedar that was half hidden amid a number of clumpy-foliaged pine saplings, 
I came across a nest of the Blue-fronted Jay (Cyanocitta stellcri frontalis). The 
sitting bird quietly slid off the nest, a bulky affair of coarse twgs, jjine-needle 
lined, disclosing four eggs, very slightly incubated. The parent showed the char- 
acterstic wariness of the species, for although I waited three-quarters of an hour, 
sh.e did not return, nor did I hear the distinctive call-note within the nesting pre- 
