Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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2. Lessophy June Coyote Peak, 3000+ ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. The white-worms are rather sparse, but not as much as it would seem at first. They are in the burned area, which consists of charred standing trees and logs, grass, an occasional small clump of brush. Shot #470 by a dead tree, near where a ♀ had been singing. While getting this one, the singing bird sang a couple times nearby, then flew. 471 was one of several birds singing back & forth. 472 was sitting low singing on a branch of a fallen tree. 473 was singing antiphonally with another bird. The song pattern in this area is rather standard. The introductory note is followed by three rather buzzy, lower pitched notes, usually followed by a buzzy upswing on the end. 474 was a little ways from the last 3, and sang after I flushed it. It had also been singing before, however, & also earlier this a.m. In some several areas as 470. Bird 470 had an egg in her oviduct, also a 9mm ovarian ovary, only 1 broken follicle - apparently had not laid yet. Brood patch well developed. 471, although I thought it was singing, is a ♀, others ♂. In the afternoon, out again, got 475 - mouth full of insects, around Maple seedling clump.