J.G.Hall 1952 7 Independence Lake to Sagehen Creek, 24 June Nevada Co, Calif. Saw a sparrow-sized bird - bright rufous cap which seemed to be erectile. Blue-yellow washing on crissum & wing coverts, may have been a green-tailed Towhee [Green-tailed Towhee] or rufous-crowned sparrow. It was in bushes about 15' from stream on a dry rocky hillside. Going through this stuff (canadensis), manzanita & alder unbelievably tough at times. Met the 2 Hoff- men's about 3 and we continued to make a circuit of his red+white fir area. Crossed the main trib which flows N into Sagehen & found some old beaver cuttings. Not very extensive and aspen rather common but not nearly so thick as it is on some stretches of the main stream farther down. Scared a little sparrow-like bird off her well-concealed nest on the ground beneath some prostrate canathus. Her nest was 15 or 20 feet from the stream,