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Mayhew
1949
Pheasant
June 18
2
Conaway Ranch, 2 miles east of Woodland, Yolo Co., Calif.
4 young pheasants, nearly as large
as an adult & flushed from the weeds
along a ditch bank.
3
This nest still had 3 eggs, but there was
no evidence of the & having returned
to it.
4
2 drop eggs were found in the barley.
This was a nest with 3 eggs that
was uncovered by the harvester. One egg
was robin's egg blue, one shaped like a
football, the other one looked normal. The
hen flushed from the nest when we
came by - the nest had been exposed
by another harvester a short while earlier.
On our next round she was looking
for the nest about 15 feet from the
standing grain. On our next round
she was farther out in the cut area.
5
This nest had 11 eggs in it, but 4 of
them had been broken.
8 pheasant eggs had been deposited
on the bare ground in a barley field -
it were in one group, 4 in another
group about 2 feet away. There was
no indication of a nest.
June 19
3
3 half-grown pheasants were flushed
from the weeds along a ditch bank.
There was no & present.
1
The & had gone. 2 eggs apparently
had hatched, 2 were on the point of