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1956
Pipilo fuscus.
Sept. 25 U.C. campus, Berkeley
Brown towhee singing intermittently
near Granieri as I was walking
to parked car at 5:30.
Nov. 18 Queens Rd.
f ad. very little fat.
60.0gm.
'957
April 25 Queens Rd., Berkeley
See notes for April 22
Most are around house since pair
removed on April 10. Only one
individual
April 30 Pair present; courting underway.
One individual (??) perched on wire
sitting quietly; other individual, flew
to wire and performed display of
nervous hopping and jumping, turning
body slightly with each move, holding
his head up slightly (done so strongly
in some cases of this display), fluttering
or flapping his wing with each move.
He approached the f, moving down another
wire; when he was a foot or 2 away,
she took wing and he followed.