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K Dixon
1949
3.
Pama wollweber
Apr 24. Sawmill, 27 mi. NE Globe 5600 ft, Gila Co. Ariz.
Clear, mild morning; intermittent breeze 5-6 mph from E after 7:30. I worked hill north of camp beginning at 7:50 AM. General exposure SE -> SW, rather dry with somewhat wider spacing & plants - chiefly oak and juniper, yellow pine rare - shrubs chiefly Cercocarpus dispersed among oaks & junipers which ranged mainly from 10-12 ft in height.
Heard no titmice until 9:15 when I heard a call see see see dee very similar to P. inornatus - then another call mickadee dehdeldh deli do (m-- ----) repeated with an ending that was almost filled and somewhat nasal, a call I had taken to be that of a Bewick's Wren a few minutes before. The two titmice were in an oak perhaps 9 feet above ground. A Black-throated Gray Warbler and a Chipping Sparrow flew in almost immediately as if this were an "owl mobbing" signal. The titmice led the way upslope continuing to give the nasal tuell, the warbler and sparrow following as though in a flock for a while. I lost track of the titmice by 9:21 without seeing anything of their foraging habits. Both before and after I heard light tapping on wood much as heard cracking of Plain Titmouse in California but couldn't determine the source on any occasion.
About 10:00 I hear a titmouse singing downslope near the edge of a large grassy clearing. As I approached the bird stopped his song (pit-pit-pit, titmit like) and gave a high-pitched thin see see see as it