Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
N. Calif. Shrike
Date May 4, 1921
Set M. 7 1/8
AGU No. 6226
Local. Arroyo Seco Falls, Los Angeles, Calif.
Incub. fresh
Colby Alden Mills
Nest in oak very well
Rim lined as gravel. 15 A.M.
bird very exited
N. White-rumped Shrike
Date May 29, 1921
Set M. 35 1/8
AGU No. 642 a
Local. Lancaster Mohave desert Calif.
Incub. advanced
Colby Alden Mills
Nest in tree yucca well lined
Rim. ballay, birds very wild 7 A.M.
as thou 622a of Palm Springs
bird did not come around and fight
in the yucca belt
N. White-rumped Shrike
Date Mar 26 1923
Set M. 7 1/8 well marked set
AGU No. 622 a
Local Palm Spring Old Desert Calif.
Incub. slight
Colby. Alden T Smith
Nest made almost entirely of
Rim willowed bark. Placed in a
mesquite tree in a clump of flowering
mistletoe. The tame birds shot.