Field notes, v506
Page 457
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Spizella breweri 11 June 1957 Indian Spring, 1 mile Mt. MacInnes, 7300 ft. Esmeralda Co., Nev. Flushed a bird from a nest. Shot her. It was ♀, with eggs in oviduct. She was apparently incubating 3 eggs already in nest. Flushed her yesterday A.M. also may have been incubating then. The nest is 2 ft. high in a sage. Three eggs are small, size of sage sparow eggs. Light blue ground color, spotted on large end, mainly in a ring, with brownish + rusty spots. A very few spots on all surface except large t. Nest is of sage twigs & bark shreds lined with brown & tan black hair like tendils or root fibers. These birds are very common around this area. They sing often, the song is very distictive series of buzze of various sorts, quite extended. Later, watching another pair carry food to a nest near an "clim". They fly low, just over sage brush tops, in an undulating flight which takes them below brush level often. 12 June 1957 ½ mi. S. Pigeon Spring, 6400 ft. Esmeralda Co., Nevada Shot 2 birds low, both ♀ with testes 5 or 6 mm. Made them both into skeletons. Shot one out of spinion after flushing it home sage brush, got the other in sage.