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Mayhew
1947
May 19
Western Robin
10.
U.C. campus, Alameda Co., Calif.
It moved its head from side to side
occasionally. At 2:15 P.M. it began
to preen its feathers, while remaining
on the nest. There is no evidence
of the other adult anywhere around.
At 2:19 P.M. a Song Sparrow landed
on a branch of the tree about 10
feet from the nest, sang his song
though once, and departed without
arousing the bird on the nest at all.
At 2:23 P.M. the bird left the nest &
flew north to the branch of a small
oak tree about 60 feet from the nest.
It then hopped down to the ground,
where it began to look for worms.
At this time I was able to see that it was
the ♀. I was also able to see that
its left leg had been injured at some
time so that it had to hop about.
At 2:26 P.M. it flew on farther north
across Oxford Circle & out of my
sight. At 2:29 P.M. the same bird
returned to the nest, and after standing
on the west edge of the nest trying
to swallow something I couldn't make
out, she settled on the nest again
facing east. She continued to struggle
with the object in her mouth until
she succeeded in swallowing it.
At 2:34 P.M. two white-crowned