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 100 THE CONDOR Vol. XIX beautiful spot, the most beautiful of any seen in the region. From a mountain spring the water came tumbling d9wn a narrow wooded gulch between moss- covered banks and among mossy logs and clusters of tall spreading fern fronds into the clear pool of the reservoir, shadowed by a brotherhood of noble hem- locks, their branches hung with swaying pale green moss. I-Icrc in the solemn conclave of Druids, where the wind sings with hushed voice, from the moss VARIED THRUSH From Bailey's' "Handbook of Birds of the Western United States." By courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Company. and ferns of the rich earth carpet came the call of the little brown woodiander, the Winter Wren, a lover of just such forest depths. And it was easy to ima- gine a band of the great Pigeons hooting solemnly from the tree tops overlook- ing the clear water of the beautiful pool.