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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