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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral, 4800 ft.
Date: July 26
Page Number: 2530

of the nest she has under observation - Robin ^^{(2 eggs)}, Wright
Flycatcher ^^{(3 eggs)}, Green-tailed Towhee (3 small young). She is keeping
full, formal notes on all these, so I won't repeat.
The most astonishing thing is the second set of eggs
of Wright Flycatcher in the same nest a brood of
4 was raised in, this season. As far as I can
see, the nest is in excellent condition, clean and
compact; of course is might have - probably was - re-
lined and otherwise renovated at the beginning of the
second mating.

Jumped a fawn here by camp, from a lying-down
place under a very small fir surrounded by dense ceanothus
cordulatus save for a poorly marked entrance gangway.
The deer somehow got thru [sic] the mass of entanglements
opposite me as I came in along the "gangway"; I noted
mentally that it was a "jack rabbit" until it bounded
into the open beyond, behaving, in movements, just like an
old deer, tho it certainly wasn't more than 1/4 grown.

July 27

6293 Calaveras Warbler [male symbol] im. 8.1g. Shot out of hemlock, 25 feet up,
where looked much larger than it proved to be.

6294 Sierra Crossbill [male symbol] ad. 29.6g. Shot out of top of hemlock
about 25 feet above steeply sloping mountain-side. Testes [testes illustration].
With at least 5 others scattered about in tops of
closely adjacent hemlocks, these latter abundantly
producing the green pendant cones. I was mentally
sure the crossbills were feeding on these cones;
if even when skinning the bird shot, and I