Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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from a sage brush where
formed its nest & 4
eggs in a crotch three
feet up. Incubation begun.
Wetter beat back
& forth at random
in the sage, now and
then catching a glimpse
of a Rufous- crowned or
screaming its song.
But any attempt (at)
watching one to its
nest seems a most
improbable thing. At
this season the birds
are very secretive and
while I can work
up to within gun-shot,
the birds were ready to