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 8o THE C{)NI}}R [ V,,!. IV after the interests of an excursion of young naturalists at $usy Lake. For- rest Hanford has spent May and June working from Fyffe to the summit in company with L. E. Taylor, while Mil- ton S. Ray and party passed through the region for a several weeks' outing at Lake Tahoe. Mrs. H. B. Wheelock, a popular eastern bird author, spent The accompanying half-tone portrays Mr. Taylor ahout t. scientifically in- vestigate the nest of a white-headed woodpecker at about 4,8oo feet alti tude. The nest was ten feet up in a burnt stub and contained small young on June 5- While awaiting Mr. Tay- lor's arrival and watching the stub I saw one of the birds flying to the PHOTO By C. BARLOW. TAYLOR OPINING A H$T OF WHIT['H[AD[D WOODP[CK[R some ten days in the region, gleaning observations for a forth-coming work. The writer, joined by H. R. Taylor of Nidolo#ist fame, likewise endured the many jolts of the mountain stage that they might wander through the high Sierran forests and observe the alpine species in their summer retreats. nest. it alighted below the hole, chuckled a few times, when the brood- ing bird appeared at the entrance and at once flew out. The newcomer then took its place, the exchange consunfing but a noment. At Echo (altitude S7OO feet) June 6 Mr. Taylor found a ]est of the russ:t-