. Bird notes afield; essays on the birds of the Pacific coast with a field check list . IN SIGHT OF SHASTA. T THE head of the great Sacramento Valleyrises the snow cone of Mount Shasta, one ofthe commanding peaks of the Sierra for a summer upon the bank besidethe river tumbling and swirling down the rockson its way toward the plain, I watched thebirds. Great yellow pine trees stood round about, and througha vista up the river loomed the sublime peak. The forest screen crowded down to the edge of the on-flowing river. Of conifers there were the spruce trees withdrooping boughs, s
. Bird notes afield; essays on the birds of the Pacific coast with a field check list . IN SIGHT OF SHASTA. T THE head of the great Sacramento Valleyrises the snow cone of Mount Shasta, one ofthe commanding peaks of the Sierra for a summer upon the bank besidethe river tumbling and swirling down the rockson its way toward the plain, I watched thebirds. Great yellow pine trees stood round about, and througha vista up the river loomed the sublime peak. The forest screen crowded down to the edge of the on-flowing river. Of conifers there were the spruce trees withdrooping boughs, short fragrant needles and small cones, cedarswith ruddy stringy bark and flattened plume-like masses ofyellowish-green verdure, and venerable old yellow pineswith bark in big scale-like plates of a tawny yellowish hue,and tufts of long needles, on boughs outstretched from the tallsymmetrical trunks. Crowding amidst these were maples andblack oaks, with alders by the waters edge, and near by inthe arroyo, willows, their slender leaves showing silver to thebreeze. Upon the very margin of the river, dabbl
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