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Beards
1954
Passerulus sandvicensis
June 18 Nuttalls Bay Spit, near Leland, Tillamook Co., Oregon - There are many of these birds on the spit, in close association with White-crowns. Their territories (little species) seem in complete overlap. They will often be right together in flocks, and join in alarm notes when I am close. Collected one bird, #586.
July 1 Harts Pass, 6200 ft., Oregon Co., Wash. - This locality is way off the shaded area of the map in Birds of Wash. I quite distinctly heard the birds sing several times on the S slope of Slate Peak, about dusk, at an elevation of probably 6400 ft. Could only get glimpses of the birds. /// Heard these birds today, saw one flush with a White-crown. Collected #662 after I had heard one sing from a clump of 2-4 ft. This in very wet meadow snow not more than 15 ft. away. In the afternoon, found a nest with 5 eggs. Nest is on the ground, partly roofed by grass and leaves, and is composed of dead grass. About 8 ft. from a Douglas Fir.
July 3 This bird seems to be one of the most abundant in the area, perhaps the most abundant. The nest today still had the 5 eggs.