Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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Banks 1961 Zonotrichia leucophrys 1. Old Creek, Cayucos, 50 ft., San Luis Obispo Co., Calif. Apr.23 Here, 5 of town, near cemetery, is a large trench filled with brush, adjacent to a brushy pasture. A couple pairs of White-crows here. The birds fly long distances when flushed. The song is a buzzy - I -- \ . Took 2 breeding birds, 1B, 1F. 5 road mi. N Cayucos on Rt.1, ca. 200 ft., SLO Co., Calif.- Along the brushy roadside, just N of Villa Creek Rd, White-crows were heard. Flushed a bird which I thought was a breeder, but it flew across road. It joined a flock of White-crows + golden-crows, and I took one of the flock. The one I got was not a breeding bird, but an emaciated pygetensis 4. This place in catalog is: 4 1/2 mi.W, 1 1/2 mi.N Cayucos, 200ft. 4 1/2 mi.W, 1 1/2 mi.N Cayucos, 150 ft., San Luis Obispo Co., Calif. In coastal scrub along shore or cliffs here, there is a good population of White-crows, although the area is limited. Took several birds. #4 and 5 were both mated, and I thought #5's mate (see catalog - this is not so) was singing - -- Bird 8 was mate of 9, the latter carrying a moth in its bill. #10 also had food in its bill. #12 was a singing bird. Flushed a ? from a set of 3 eggs in this area, but could find no other nest. Apr.19-28 San Francisco, San Francisco Co., Calif. - Several birds trapped at SF State Coll. campus by Mrs. Betty Little, given time to sorting.