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 Mar., 1914 SOME DISCOVERIES IN THE FOREST AT FYFFE 59 seasonal conditions. At a forest edge a Red-breasted _.Nuthatch (3'itta canaden- sis) was noted drilling well np in a lofty dead tree trunk, while a Spurred Towhee (Pipilo maculatts megalonyx) fluttered off from an unfindable nest in a patch of mountain misery, that softest and greenest of all Sierran carpets. It was not my original intention in the afternoon, in a sort of preliminary surxey, to climb in traveling clothes the pitchy pines or charred dead tree trunks, but the ornithological temptations proved stronger than my resolutions. Edg- ing on the road I noted four rich buffy eggs of the Mountain Partridge (Orcortyx Fig. 25. IN THE FOREST AT I'yFFI. THIS RATHIR OPIN VIEW WAS POSSIBLIE ONLY BIECAUSIE OF TH CLEARING ALONG TH DITCH; LSWHR THe. FOREST WAS GNRALLV SO DS AS TO PR- CLUD PHOGRAPH. ON MAY 20 A NST OF TH SIERRA JUNCO w,s [oc.vv cos o v o sic v sv.. picta phtmi[era) lying in a grass and kaf-lined hollow which a dead pine branch and surrounding weeds partially concealed. As I headed northeast into the greta forest the rich mebdy of Thick-billed Sparrows (Passerella ilia meg'arncha) came floating from the brush-covered clearings, while from all sides came a maze of warbler songs, incessant, varied and low. I had now gone a number of miles, and had visited, though without result, several p.aicular points mapped and described with great care by Carriger. The