Field notes, v4514
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about. Many males singing and pairing off yet also several young birds with the light colored backs. While returning I happened to pass by a different patch of the scotch broom (6" tall) and flushed a female Dwarf Savannah Sparrow off of 5 eggs. This subspecies is neat but perfectly good to say Junk. Also the nest was very hard. Bowles has never found one and he has only one set that Brooks took at Vancouver, These are the only sets Bowles knows of. The bird came close and it certainly is small and very dark. The bird flushed at a distance of 7-10 ft altho the eggs were advanced in incubation and were blowing strongly. Remember the Nevada Savannah sat very close and also the "beldingi". The ewary note is typical Nevada Savannah, we did