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Chapter 28: FOOTNOTES:
By Florence Merriam Bailey
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A series of field sketches and natural-history notes records seasonal birdlife in a small coastal valley of southern California. The writer rides through the landscape to follow migrants and nesting birds, describing behaviors, nests, songs, and interspecific interactions; many chapters focus on particular species or local habitats such as oak groves, sycamores, and eucalyptus avenues. Entries blend identification remarks, nest and egg descriptions, occasional mysteries or tragedies, and practical hints for observers. Illustrations and a species list supplement close studies of wrens, hummingbirds, orioles, thrashers, and other residents and migrants, yielding a lively portrait of resident bird communities and habits.

INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.

Bee-birds, 13.
Blackbird, Brewer's, 13.
Buntings, Lazuli (old and young), 189.
Bush-tits (birds and nest), 104.
Bush-tit (nest in oak), 108.

Chewink, California (head), 93.
Chewink, Eastern (head), 93.
Chewink, Green-tailed (head), 163.

Eucalyptus Avenue, showing pollarded trees, 212.
Eucalyptus Wood stored for Market in a Eucalyptus Grove, 214.

Gnatcatcher, Western (birds and nest), 39.
Grosbeak, Black-headed (head), 8.
Grosbeak, Rose-breasted (head), 8.

Hummingbird, Black-chinned (nest), 157.
Hummingbird, Black-chinned (on nest), 148.

Mountain Billy Deserted, 220.
Mountain Billy under the Gnatcatcher's Oak, frontispiece.

Oaks, Live, 160.
Oriole, Arizona Hooded (head), 89.
Oriole, Baltimore, Eastern (head), 89.

Phainopepla's Nest in Oak Brush, 198.
Phainopeplas on Pepper-tree, 194.
Phœbe, Black (head), 129.
Phœbe, Eastern (head), 129.

Quail, Valley, 99.

Road-runner, 99.

Sycamores, Along the Line of, 124.
Sycamore, The Big, 114.

Titmouse, Plain (at nest), 176.

Valley in Coast Mountains, 4.

Woodpecker, California, (head), 66.
Woodpecker, California (young), 78.
Woodpecker, Red-headed, Eastern (head), 66.
Wren-tit, 189.
Wren, Vigors's (at nest), 173.
Wren, Western House, 32.
Wren, Western House (singing), 20.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] In classification and nomenclature this list conforms to the American Ornithologists' Union 'Check-List of North American Birds,' Second Edition, 1895. L. S. Foster, New York.

[2] As this little pair dressed like twins, I could only infer which was which from the song and the actions of the two, which were quite distinct.

[3] The difference in the dress of the woodpeckers is so slight that the sexes were not distinguished at this nest.

[4] Since this paper was written, I have consulted an authority on nests, who thinks that this nameless bird was probably Hutton's vireo.

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