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Banks
1959
Zenotrichia leucophrys
25.
June 18 6 mi S, 3 mi W Tillamook, 400 ft. Tillamook Co., Ore.
The enlellished song spoken of is the same song as before, with 3 notes on the end:
- - - =', the last 3 rather run together.
566 is the mate of the bird who was singing this latter song. They may have had young out of the nest.
Netarts Bay spit, sea level Tillamook Co., Oregon
571 flew toward me and sat on a lupine.
572 had a mouth full of caterpillar larvae.
573 was nearly, flushed & chipped when I approached. Its damn started chipping by another bird. This bird led me back into the territory of 572, where I think there was a fourth bird, but I couldn't get any more. There may have been young present there. 574 flushed ahead of me, and sat on telephone wires several times, where he was finally shot.
A bird here on the spit is singing: [illegible] - = - -
or - [-] - -, sometimes omitting last note.
Chasing this bird and one he joined led me back 2 telephone poles to 574's area, and even then it flew on back toward where 572 + 573 had been. 575 sat on a lupine. It appeared to have food in its mouth. 576 sat on a wire & chipped after I had passed, then flew down to the sand. 577 was in some way thick stuff, nick, blueberry, Rose, bracken. 578 was on the