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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Moore.
Hylocichla guttata
December 7, 1929
One individual was secured in Lincoln Canyon 1300 ft. Swomiss of Redlands, San Bernardino Co., California as it perched on a dead branch over the stream in the wash bottom. On Dec. 8 another individual was obtained about 1/4 of a mile further up the stream among the ferns and dead leaves in the creek bottom.
The bird seemed very tame, and nonchalantly perched on a twig within fifteen feet of the observer. The intelligent looking white ringed eye of the bird scanned the observer interrogatively, and then the bird hopped down into the ferns and disappeared from sight, and could not be found after a quite diligent search of the surrounding territory in which it disappeared. These sagacious looking birds seem to fit in admirably with the quick morning atmosphere of a foggy day. Another bird was seen about the hunter's home in the city of Redlands, in company with a group of Song Sparrows, white crowned sparrows, and Anthony thrushes.