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Rebs
1959
Zonotrichia leucophrys
14,
May 24, HorseH, boostt, 1 mis, 2 mi E Hobart Mills, Mer. C., Caly.
territorial and there was some singing, esp early in the morning ( till 10 ). The song is initiated by a long buzzy, followed by a series, descending in pitch, of rather forced buzzy putters, each of 2 or 3 notes, and ends usually with a note of terminal inflection. The whole song is buzzy, not clean whistled as in the Bay area. It can be diagramed:
The first bird shot was one fenc post along the top of the stream bank in sage, and was singing occasionally. It is REB 465. The second was quiet, in a dead low sage (REB 466) near where a mated (?) pair had taken refuge. I am sure there were 3 or 4 birds very close here. # 467 was shot after me, upstream a ways, and was with another bird, which got away. It was in Willow.
Middle Mantis Cr., boostt, 4 mi E, 2 mi S Indrea Place, Calf. Arrived here 3 PM. Along this small stream at the edge of Mantis Valley, saw one singing #, and another pair (probably) of White crowns, song as above. The singing bird was in a pine at edge of sage