Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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Zonotrichia leucophrys June 22 Miss B mist Vestport, Gray Harbor G., Wash. sea level different pitch, the bird coming in from across the road having a higher pitched sound. The chipping was because it a Parson which wandered over the brush, foraging, while the sparrows watched from a dead tree. They were not too upset. I shot one of the birds, 613, and the other stayed just where I could not get it for several minutes before it flew away. As I sat in the car writing these notes, I can hear a bird singing the song just described from here: -- =-- ll. It changed to -- 11 > ll , then to sort of a combination -- = A ll . This bird waits, but forages on with the bill. June 23. Miss B Vestport, sea level, Gray Harbor G., Wash. A bird singing from a root snag flushed, was joined by 2 others, and led me in a circle. Eventually one resumed singing from the same perch. It is 615. 616 sang once, a partial song, from a driftwood snag. I wounded it & it fled to the most prickly bush imaginable, but finally I got it. There was a bird singing 30 yds away, from a big clump of grass. It flew to less dense grass & when I sat there, there were 2. Got 617, one of them. Very close to reach. 618 led a long chase from the grass by the beach, to the sand, and back in behind the dunes. 619 was