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Banks
1957
Melospiza melodia
26
2 May
2 of Men's Fox. Club, West W
0653 R-1 14.9 gm. 8+4 Prim. 19 mm.
Very quiet on balance. Head stripe barely
beginning to show up. Outer rectrix 8mm.
Under tail coverts out. Pt. 8+4, left 1st.
greater prim. covert + alenin 1/3 grown
seem to be only feathers not thru sheaths.
L-1 14.4 gm. 8+4 Prim. 14 mm.
New wt. after defecation 14.1 gm.
Left Prim. 2,5,6 are out, more on rt.
2 greater prim. cov. on rt. as at,
more on left. Most humeral out.
a few back + thigh, most of all
mental + flank. Noe out on head.
Outer rectrix 2mm; no tail feath. out.
Both birds cling to nest bottom.
5 of Natural Research Next U?
No change at 0730.
1855 2 of Men's Fox. Club - W.
1855 L-1 13.7 gm. 8+7 Prim. 15 mm.
Pt. greater prim. coverts 2+7 out, no rt.
primaries. Rt. prim. 2,4,5,6,7 out, no
greater covts. All but one nt. secondary
& cell but inner 2-3 sec. coverts out, few
sec. + coverts on left. Head has no feathers
out, Mid-back well-feathered, upper
lower back hardly, a few rectrices & upper
tail coverts starting thru. Outer tail
feather 3+mm. Banded 24-180312 on
right leg. Sec. coverts mostly out on
right wing, fewer on left.
R-1 Jumped from my hand to a reader.
could not work with him, so collected him.