Transcribing the field notes of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Collector: Grinnell - 1925 Location: Mineral Date: June 26 Page Number: 2499

glandular abdomen and hence sitting) from bole of red fir about 60 feet up. It was actively pecking at the fissured bark and dislodging tufts of the conspicuous yellow lichen which grows profusely on the trunks of some of the trees. Saw also a Red-breasted Sapsucker, and punctured red fir in the vicinity. Can hear from this point: Solitaire, Tanager, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Mt. Chickadee, Canada Nuthatch, Warbling Vireo, and Audubon Warbler. Saw a [female symbol] Calliope Hummingbird at snow-plant (Sarcodes); these plants now coming up commonly under red firs and of brilliant colors.

6265 Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker [male symbol] testes [illustration] [therefore long past functioning] wt. 73.5g.; iris dark hazel brown. Note "spurious" outer ^^(?) tail feathers!

6266 Hammond Flycatcher [male symbol] testes [illustration]; wt. 10.2g. [see p. 2497].

6267 Pileolated Warbler [male symbol] wt. 7.1g. [see p. 2497].

6268 Lutescent (?) Warbler [female symbol] jv. wt. 7.8g. [see p. 2498].

5:00p.m., at camp: collected a set of four eggs 4/4, nest and female parent, of Wright Flycatcher. Rim of nest 1130mm above ground; nest on nearly upright stem of snow-bush, supported in part by accessory twiggery; 600 mm. more of snow bush, living leafy branch, above nest. Site in sea of snowbush on gently sloping hillside; two tall cedars 75 feet away, nearest trees; but firs and pines farther away. Eggs nearly fresh;

Collector: Grinnell - 1925 Location: Mineral, 4800 Date: July 2 Page Number: 2513

With Mrs. G. around and thru [sic] willow bogs and thru [sic] adjacent tracts of lodgepole pines on "Battle Creek Meadows." Associates in one area of willow thickets, tall grass, blossoming herbs, and luxurious verotrum, with here and there fallen lodgepole pines, snags, and some standing trees of same species, were: Song Sparrow, Lincoln Sparrow, Lazuli Bunting, Traill Flycatcher, Sierra Junco, Golden Pileolated Warbler and Yellow Warbler. A nearby abundance of Labrador tea emphasized the Canadian Boreal complexion of this aggregation - and yet there were the Buntings and Song Sparrows. We spent a good deal of time in our efforts to collect males of the latter - I don't shoot females of adult birds now, for really all of them are obviously concerned for young, either in the nest or at large but still dependent. Heard a Grouse "hooting" in the same tract of lodgepoles where we found the young on the 20th (June). It appears that the males, at least here, do stay in the vicinity of their broods and that they continue to "hoot" long after the actual mating season.

In a tract of good-sized, much branched lodgepoles across the highway in the main big meadow, we found a Calliope Hummer's nest. I heard the hum overhead and caught sight of the female just in time to see her go on to the nest, where she staid a minute moving about. Later we watched her 50 yards or so off plucking web from dead branches in the shade 10 feet up, which web she took to the nest. She