Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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Banks 1959 2. leucophrys 28 June 22 4 mi W Westport sea level Gray Harbor Wash. Landed on a fencepost. For a long while I chased 609 around the same driftwood pile where 607 had been. They are probably mates. 610 was singing -- -- - from a fir. This may be bird that flew this direction after singing from a driftwood was a hundred yds. or so away. 611 is one of a pair of birds who led me a long chase. 612 is the other. Both both with one shot, altho the second bird flew a way + I wasn't sure. One of these had been singing the simple song -- - - This seems, contrary to what I have said earlier, to be the most common type bee. A variation adds 2 or 3 notes -- to the end. This last pair, in their chase, had outlined a territory of about 50 x 30 yds. 2 mi S, 3 mi E Westport, sea level, Gray Harbor Wash. Barbed at this area and across the road from it. Quiet when I arrived about 7:30 P.M., but soon at least 2, perhaps 3 birds started singing, one far off. As I stood quietly near a pile of dead brush, a bird appeared + perched for several minutes. It began to chip, and another bird joined it from across the road, also chipping -- it had been singing -- - - - . This is the same place I heard a bird sing a different song yesterday morning. The chipping was on a