. . IMI. tT A. •- MwliFMO. <wiHl 4) PINK-SIDED JUNCO. (Jiinco annectensK Life-siz«. FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 885 them more interesting than when in flocks, because theyare now leading individual lives; but they are still the sametrustful, gentle birds, ready to come into camp or to letyou examine their nests. During the cooler seasons theirfood consists of seeds of weeds and grasses and the crumbsfound in the dooryards. In the summer time, however,they destroy a large number of adult insects and theirlarvae and eggs. The Pink-sided
. . IMI. tT A. •- MwliFMO. <wiHl 4) PINK-SIDED JUNCO. (Jiinco annectensK Life-siz«. FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 885 them more interesting than when in flocks, because theyare now leading individual lives; but they are still the sametrustful, gentle birds, ready to come into camp or to letyou examine their nests. During the cooler seasons theirfood consists of seeds of weeds and grasses and the crumbsfound in the dooryards. In the summer time, however,they destroy a large number of adult insects and theirlarvae and eggs. The Pink-sided Junco passes the summer season in theRocky JVIountain region of Idaho and ^Montana, where itmakes a home among the pines. It has been found at anelevation of nearly ten thousand feet. ISIr. Davie describesa nest that was found at an elevation of eight thousand says this nest was under a shelving stone, in a littlehollow dug out by the parents. It was rather large andcompactly built, composed of coarse, dry grasses and withan inner lining of fine yellow straw and hair of the momi-tain sheep. At the approach of winter these birds retr
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