. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Lincoln Sparrows. such, come with full force and fresh- ness at a hundred yards to the listeners of the trail around Bluff Lake in the San Bernardinos, or at Camp Ahwahnee in the Yosemite. Indeed, how could any creature, however trivial, gaze upon the sub- limities unfolded along the hallowed reaches of the Merced without burst- ing into song! Be that as it may, I shall never recall the vision of Yo- semite Falls, as seen from the road just bel
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Lincoln Sparrows. such, come with full force and fresh- ness at a hundred yards to the listeners of the trail around Bluff Lake in the San Bernardinos, or at Camp Ahwahnee in the Yosemite. Indeed, how could any creature, however trivial, gaze upon the sub- limities unfolded along the hallowed reaches of the Merced without burst- ing into song! Be that as it may, I shall never recall the vision of Yo- semite Falls, as seen from the road just below the village, without hearing the wild music of the Lincoln Song Sparrows sounding like a pibroch above the solemn thunders of this majesty. And if one set out to collect a photographic series of favorite haunts of the Lincoln Spar- row, he would have a muster roll of California's finest: Tahquitz Ridge, the Simpson Meadows, the Yo- semite, the eastern flank of the Warners, Sisson, and Mt. Shasta—these are a few of the trysting places of lincolni within the author's experience. And these are but a drop in the bucket as compared with the uncharted multitude of beauty spots which the careful taste of lincolni has honored. Nests of the Lincoln Sparrow are hidden at the base of bush clumps or grass tussocks, in the depths of the local swamp. The female slips off as unobtrusively as a mouse, and threads the mazes in swift pedal retreat be- fore taking to wing. The youngsters, too, according to Mr. Aretas Saunders1 move over the ground with astonishing proficiency before ever they are able to fly. After the young have quitted the nest the solicitude of the parents becomes very manifest. The birds follow one about with soft little chips of remonstrance, and they are very jealous of avian intruders. The scolding note has nothing of the sharpness exhibited by the Song Sparrow (M. melodia), nor of the asperity of the J unco, although it most resembles that of the latter in its residu
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