Bird notes, v4398
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1941 of three or four small twigs at the junction of these twigs and the branch and the stems of the mistletoe meet through the cup of the nest. The nest was quite closely felled and covered with fuzzy lichens. It was quite a deep cup. We did not hear any calls or song. One Channingpelea, we saw had a very short tail. It was not seen near this nest and must have belonged to another pair a little farther up stream. We saw it also at a barn across the road. A little farther still was another pair. So I feel sure there were three pairs at least, possibly or rather probably more. Knightsbirds were very scarce and did not seem to be concerned with mates or nesting. Only two Western K. were seen. Blue Ash-throated Flycatcher was heard, near the P.'s nest and across the dream near another barn we saw a Say Phoebe. It was seen repeatedly flying from the fence to a shed. I felt pretty sure it had a mate and it was building somewhere about the shed but we could not get across to it. It alighted also on a pipe which runs from a pump near the stream to the top of the bluff near the shed. I have never before seen it in Arroyo Mucho though it does nest at Corrall Hollows and Nortonville.