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FAP
1957
Pipilo fuscus
April 3 Queens Road, Berkeley
Collecting nesting material - pair present around house and at least January.
April 7 attempted copulation.
April 10 gathering of nesting material still
One member of pair seen pulling on long strands grasshites
continuing. Both members of pair above
around ground
taken today.
♀ 1st-year Ova only to 2 mm.!
No skull windows. 54.3g
Retrices 1-1 & 6-6 retained, others new
{Small skull windows on both sides of crown,
in supraoccipital region}
♂
{1st
L testes 14mm. 56.9
Retrores 1-1 & 6-6 retained, others new.
}
April 10 U.C. Campus
Brown Turke seen gathering nest material
April 22 Queens Rd
Chipping hard soundslope suggests territorial activity locally. Possibly a new individual or new pair is again spreading into this area.