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Clapr), Roger 
19o4 2 
One of the small bluer gray Kingfishers (Ha lye on chloris) was 
seen to fly from the edge of a hank with a an® 11 green lizard in its 
bill. The bird subsequently flew to its nest in the bank and was 
greeted by a chorus of young birds. The lizard which was about 2 inches 
long was apparently intended as food for them. On a second trip the 
Kingfisher brought a katydid - bettlgoniid type grasshopper to the 
young. 
At the top of the pass was a shorebird in a small 100 square yard 
area filled with short -grasses and muddy ground. As it flushed it 
gave the call notes of a Wandering Tattler. 
While the swift lets are usually silent sailing by on slightly 
down bent wings, occasionally they give a high pitched "twi -tweet" note. 
Their flight is much more leisurely and graceful than that of the chimney 
swift. This species sails more. 
The Kingfisher nest was located at the top of a *J-0 foot rock and 
earth cliff and was dug under the rootlets where the soil overhung the 
edge of the cliff. 
Upon another occasion the Kingfisher brought another grasshopper 
this one green in front with reddish tegmna . 
Prom the way the bird fed the young at the entrance of the burrow 
(the young having clambered to the burrow entrance) it seems that 
the young are pro bably fairly far along in their development. 
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During the period in which the adult is absent from the nest the 
young constantly keep up a buzzy-rasping "aaah" note which makes the nest 
site very conspicuous. 
