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List of birds in Nevada: Black-crowned Night Heron (1); Canada Goose. (3 or 4 pers, about 4 goslings); Mallard (sev. jers) Cin.
Teal (sev. jers), Pintail (sev. jers), Turkey Vulture (see.)
Ring-necked Pheasant,
Gorbank (1 in nets), Spannous Hawks (1), Gambel Quail, Coot (fed),
Killdeer, Arroyo (2 pr), Gulls (Calif. ? - hrs large flocks, rose &
circles as if migrating), Forster Teal), Mourning Dove (heard),
Red-breasted Sapsucker (making hole in pine aspen), Flicker, W. Kingbird
Trill Flycatcher (mts. in willows), Horned Lark, Cliff, Barn, &p. Swallow
Black-billed Magpie (many), Crow, Sierra Creeper (mts.), House Wren
(Glendroth and in aspens at lunch palace), Marsh Wren (in lules),
Sage Thrasher, Robin (in mts.), W. Bluebird (was perched on door of auto
when I was reading inside), Yellow Warbler, Polynie Warbler, Yellowthroat,
Und. Warbler, Pale-sided Warbler, Yellowheaded Blackbird (many),
Nevada Redwing, W. Meadowlark, Brewer's Blackbird, W. Towager, Bullock
Aristle (Nevra), Black-billed Magpie, Lazuli Bunting, Eryx Sparrow), Linnet,
Green-Yellowfinch, Pine Siskin (esp. at Glendroth), Brew-Tailed Towhee (mts.),
Nevada Spotted Towhee (in sage), Nevada Savannah Sp., Foxsp. (esp.? in mts).
Nevada Sage Sparrowd, W. Cliffsping Sparrow, Mt. White-crowned Sp.(in mts)
Modoc: Dory Sp. Brewer Sparrow
Total 85
Additions along may 4
Berkeley, June 5.
Titmouse went into box; another alightes on top of
box fluttering wings (young bird?); Later family
Came for sunflower seeds (2am 5'); Twice a
blue jay flew at one viciously, striking at it with
his bill. Alarm note of titmousee when blue jay ap-
proached - tit, tit, tit, tit. When blue jay flew over giving
alarm note all titmouses stopped calling. Two
Titmouses seen walking in the pool.