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 july, 1912 A JOURNEY TO STAR LAKE COUNTRY AND TAHOE REGION 143 swampy meadow and was located hy the bird I'dislodging one of the eggs in leaving, which rolled out on the meadow grass unbroken. A hard climb forty feet up an aspen showed a nest of the Cabanis Woodpecker (Dryobates villosus hyloscopus) to contain four very small young. This is the earliest nesting woodpecker of the region. May 22 a tramp was taken to Cave Rock and return by the lake beach. Killdeers (Aegialitis vociferus) and Spotted Sandpipers (Actiris macularius) were common most of the way, and a nest of the former was noted. a slight - hollow in the sand lined with pebbles and bits of driftwood. with four eggs well along in incubation. A nest of the Blue-fronted Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri [ron- tails) in a Jeffrey pine six- teen feet up, was found to hold three near fresh eggs, while not far distant in the cavity of an old stump 27 inches above the ground and lined with grasses, bark strips and feathers, was the large complement of eight eggs of the Mountain Bluebird (Si- alia currucoides). Six of these appeared well incubated and two addled. The following day was de- voted to work at the Row- lands Marsh, where the cus- tomary colonies of the Red- wings ( A gelaius phoeniceus, subsp ?). Brewer Blackbird ( Euphagus cyanocephalus). Yellow-headed B 1 a c k b i r d (Xanthocephalus) and Black Tern ( Hydrochelidon nigra surinamends) vere found nesting. The only noteworthy finds were two nests of the Canada Goose (Branta cana- densis canadensis) described in a previous CONi)OR, and a nest of the Mountain Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia monta.a) at the May 24 a fully-fledged Fig. 59. STAR LAKE AT THE FOOT OF .IOB'8 SISTEr, IN LATE JUNE; ELEVATION NEARLY 9000 FEET Photo by Oluf J. Heinemann foot of a small willow with five young. On Western Robin ( Plancsticus migratorius pro- pinq-uus) was noted, xvhich is the earliest record I have for Lake Valley. Although many bird homes were located dnring the next two clays it was not until the 27th that I made a noteworthy find. This, a nest of the Sierra Hemfit Thrush I Hylocichla guttara sequoiensis), was found on the floor of the valley in a lodge-pole pine sapling and made of moss. grasses and stems and lined with fine grasses. It held four eggs. slightly incubated. Another nest of more than passing interest was one of the Mountain Song Sparrow (Mclospixa mclodia montana) placed in a lodge-pole pine eleven feet up, with