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Patelka
1943
Zenaida macroura.
June 12-15 2 mi SE Beegum, 1650 ft., Tehama Co., Calif.
Fairly common throughout the area covered by our collecting. Feeding and perching in the woodland primarily, although an occasional bird or two was flushed from open stands of Adenostoma.
One nest was found (June 14) on the valley flat in a blue oak, 9 feet above the ground. It contained young. The nest was built almost entirely of thick grass stems, and appeared as substantial as any Morning Dove nest I've ever seen. The nest was saddled on one of the main lower limbs of the tree, about 3 feet from the trunk.
June 16-18 2 mi E Hayfork, 2400 ft., Trinity Co., Calif.
Regularly distributed, but not common in the open pine-oak woodland, especially about openings and in the vicinity of fields and pastures.
June 25-26 1 mi W Hyampom, 1200 ft., Trinity Co., Calif.
Several seen or heard during hunting on the Hyampom flat and the south-facing slope north of Camp. They occurred chiefly in the open Garry oak woodland near the base of the slope and along the woodland edge bordering on the open flat.