Field notes, v1313
Page 431
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Turdus migratorius Julien 1949 Aug 9 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. Found the general vicinity of a nest in the dense thimbleberry - salmonberry thicket on the west side of the first bend in Maple Creek W of the bridge. I could hear the young in the nest and the two parents were chirping vigorously nearby. Aug 11 - same locality - Found an empty robin's nest about 10 feet up in a crotch formerly [a crossed-out line] a mass of small branches coming out of the trunk of a 6 in cedar. Nest mostly of moss with a little bit of grass woven in - lined with a mud cup. Aug 25 Coyote Peak, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 speckle-breasted young collected in a Fir - Maple Forest (see journal p. 154-155) a little way below the spring at [illegible] feet on the west side of the peak. I heard an adult in the same area and 1 or 2 other young birds after this one was collected. The immediate forest was composed of Bay, Chinquapin, Madrone, Big-leaf Maple and Vine Maple with a damp substrate, little muddy pools, and moss covered rocks and logs. The trees were all extremely tall and slender for the