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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Transcription
Nettium formosum.
The males give a call which sounds like somebody
working and old rusty hand pump over a well.
April 16, 1911.
The females and males both call; that
[illegible] being very harsh and raucous.
No sign of moult yet.
April 23, 1911.
Note in the two females that there are
a few fine fresh looking feathers in the
back and flanks among the old worn
ones. The feathers of the head in each
look worn.