Accounts of birds, mammals, amphibians, and plant catalogue, v4551
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Mayhew 1947 May 28 Western Robin 39. U.C. campus, Alameda Co., Calif. she were breathing very hard. Then she settled down completely. At 3:55 P.M. the & left the nest & flew to a tree about 150 feet south where she began to preen her feathers. At 3:57 P.M. she flew down to the lawn beneath the tree she had been preening in. At 4:05 P.M. the & returned to the south edge of the nest, fed one youngster, then settled on the nest facing west. At 4:10 P.M. she stood up & probed in the bottom of the nest with her bill. At 4:12 P.M. she settled down facing west. At 4:30 P.M., on inspecting the nest in the Persea lingue tree near Oxford Circle, it was found to be empty, & the bottom had been torn up. Perhaps this explains why no young hatched in this nest. At 4:44 P.M. the & left the nest in the Adina decodra tree, uttering a single note as she flew. She landed on the lawn about 100 feet south of the nest. Then she began to look for worms, working back toward the nest. At 4:48 P.M., when she was about 50 feet from the tree, she flew to the west side of the nest & fed one youngster. She then ate one experiment pellet, then she settled on the nest, facing north. At 4:50 P.M. she flew north from the nest. At 4:54 P.M. the & returned to the west edge of the nest where she stood