Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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Banks 1959 Zonotrichia leucophrys 5. Pebble Beach, sea level, San Mateo Co., Calif. Apr. 18 shot in thick low briny brush, and another bird, while I aimed was its mate, flushed from nearby; a flock of Golden-crows had just passed through. Bird #6 (RMB 390), shot feeding in the open, is 8 x 4 testes 8x5, wt. 27.2g. 1 mi N Gonzales Beach, 150 ft., San Mateo Co., Calif. Bird #7, badly shot, 13 yr. plumage ♂, testes 7x5, 4 t, 29.2. This bird shot in company with another, which I never managed to get. Bird #8, (RMB 392) was a ♀ with tes. 9x5mm. This bird had 3 Nematode worms in the cavity of its left eye socket, another extending into the nasal cavity. Wt. 30.1 gm. Bird #9 (393) was in the same fence now. This bird, ♂, had well developed brood patch, large oviduct, but small (23mm) ova—perhaps one fairly recently ovulated follicle. Wt. 30.0gm. Had a large tick on side of neck. #10, in same now, is ♀ of 27.5 gm, small ova, oviduct slightly enlarged, brood patch not well developed, best in ventral area. Bird #11 (RMB 395) weighed 29.4 gm; same fence now; ♂, tes. 11x6mm. Bird #12 (RMB 396), same now, ♂, tes. 11x6mm., 31.1gm. 3♂, 2♀ from this row: #12, 2 thick, was paired with either #9 or #10, (prob. #?). #15 (RMB 397) ♀, tes. 9x6, 31.4gm. Apr. 19 Bird #16(398) is ♂, tes. 11x6mm. Wt. 30.8 gm. In company with another bird which I could not obtain.