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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Apr. 27 - La.
palm heads. There must be 10 spars to one of all other birds combined. Too bad the Commission can't weed out a lot of the sparrows and give the others birds a show! Other species seen as follows: Mockingbird (perhaps 25 all told, in two hours we spent about the Park; some on golf lawns like robins, mostly in shrubby hedges, many in full song, several juveniles "squealing"); Orchard Oriole (about 12, singing beautifully, marvellously like Scott Oriole! One loud singer was a green, black-throated bird, probably a 2nd year &; green f's very shy); Rose-breasted Grosbeak (1 & clearly seen, and probably others heard); Summer Tanager (1 & watched for some time in top of live oak); Boat-tailed Grackle (fully 20 seen; males often expand their tails prodigiously, and in