Bird notes taken at Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, California, v4495
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40 harsh saw-filing notes most of the time. May-31. Two Western Winter Wren seen and one killed. Read today that Partridges do not pair off in some places in a dry year? I think this is partially exemplified here (Redwood) this year and, if report be true, fully so in the Salinas valley. Heard the song of a Calif- ornia Towhee for the first time to recognize the per- former. I have heard it before I think but is not often to be heard. Probably only occasionally during the nesting season. It can hardly be consider- ed musical but never-the-less it is an attempt at song. The bird was seated first in a willow and then in a sycamore tree several feet from