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 200 THE CONDOR Vol. XV small lodgepole pine the birds were using the material of last year's abode, which hung from, the tip of a loftv pine branch a hundred feet away. While a much more restricted area, to lower elevation and more time afield 1 attribute the fact that we recorded a greater variety of birdlife at Phillips' Sta- tion than at Forni's. We found many nests at Phillips' but none were of any great rarity, being limited to those of the Western Robin, Sierra Junco and Audubon Warbler with both eggs and young, those of the Mountain Chickadee with young only, and of the Sierra Hermit Thrush and Western Wood Pewee with eggs or building. On June I5, after our retuna to Bijou on the shore of Lake Tahoe, I found a deserted submerged nest of the Wilson Phalarope (Steganopus tricolor) at Rowland's Marsh, with four eggs. The shells of these on examination proved to be very flexible; whether the condition was due to some peculiarity of the eggs lig. 54. DESOLATION VALLE'f, 8000 TO 8500 FEE'f ALTITUDE, NEAR PYRAlSilD PEAK, ELDORADO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA themselves or to the water in which they had lain for some time, I am not prepared to say. The day following, southwest of Bijon, I located a nest of the Ruby- crowned Kinglet with four pipp.ed eggs and three young, just out. Three other nests of this bird, one found June 23 at Phillips' with seven eggs, olde June 28 near Star Lake and another near the Sierra Hol_se July I, each with seven young, show this number to be a q. uite common complement. A nest of the Common House Finch (Carpodaats ne.vicm,us frontalis) was noted June 8, two eggs out of which were rather uniquely marked, the usual blackish spots and scrawls being replaced by those of a light brownish. From June I9 to 24 was consumed in making a second journey to Pyramid Peak to collect a nest, previously found, of Lc,costictc. With the exception of this, few n,otable nests were taken on th-e trip. One of the Sierra Junco was