Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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Banks 1954 Zonotrichia leucophrys 30 June 23 4 mis Westport, sea level, Gray Harbor Co. Wash. in the high grass near the beach, singing the common -- ( ) . 620 flushed silently, without a chip or song. 621 sang -- ( ). A bird I can hear from 626's perch sings: -- ( ) June 24 Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC. -- As I was driving thru town, heard a bird sing this pattern: -- ( ) June 25 1 1/2 mi S Ladysmith, 200 ft, Vancouver Is., B.C. 62H was singing -- -- -- -- from small alders in a field of tall grass. 623 sat silently one stump in this field, where there was more broken, less grass. It had 2 spittlebug type insects in its mouth. 624 was in a fir clump near 623, and may be its mate. There was, however, another bird here in just a minute. 4 mi. S Ladysmith, Vancouver Is., B.C. 62H was one of 2 birds sitting on a dead limb in this cleared field. As I shot, 2 or 3 others flew, probably a family. Have seen several fully grown young in this vicinity. 626# was or had been singing the standard local pattern, -- -- -- from a dead tree. Several. The Ladysmith area has a lot of birds, but there are few places one can shoot. Today's journal describes onea. Many of the