Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
1957
Pipilo fuscus
May 12 Queens Road, Berkeley, Calif.
♂ 1st - all rectrices old lost. 58.5
R3,4 which are both 2/3 grown.
Ova to 11 mm. Shell dbl-layered.
Light fat
May 13 ♂ 1st all rectrices old. 49.8
Testis 12 mm. No fat.
Shell dbl-layered.
On May 9, this pair seen moving
around patios, male going thru short
periods of precopulatory display - head-up,
tail raised, wings held out and quivering,
jumping skittering.
Removal of this pair leaves pair to the
NW again the only one present nearby.
This morning they were already
moving to SE side of house. The male
did not engage in chase when they
were nearby.
July 8 - Pair which was evidently the same as
that mentioned above nested,
placing the nest in laurel 10 feet
above ground, 4 eggs laid. Clutch