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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.