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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