Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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Banks 1960 Peniceros canadensis June 12 Sand Flat, 6800 ft., Mt. Shasta, Siskiyou Co., Calif. - While I was walking in the afternoon, saw one of these birds come into a pine tree at the edge of a flat. Shot it. While retrieving it, another landed in the tree. Took it also. First one shot was a & second 8. June 14 A pair came into my camp while I was getting breakfast. They landed in a fir. One flew down toward the table on which I was cooking, scared sharply as it was about to land on the burning Coleman stove, and flew back to the tree. Both birds worked up into the higher branches of the tree, then disappeared. Did not hear a sound from either of these pairs of birds. June 15 Wend Crescent Lake, Klamath Co., Ore. - Saw one bird in the camp. June 16 [illegible] W Crescent Lake, Klamath Co., Ore. - Saw 2 birds come silently into a nearby tree, then they flew to another tree. One came very close to the other and appeared to feed it something. June 17 Elks Lake, Deschutes Co., Ore. - On the ridge just W of the lake, about 5 p.m., saw 3 of these birds in immature plumage. I stood still, and they came very close to me - 10 ft. Collected one. A short time later, saw 2 ad. and 2 imm. Probably the same family, at least one of the young begged for food, squeaking and fluttering its wings. I could not see for sure, but don't think it was fed.