. 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 Bush-Tits who take the initiative, and involuntarily direct the movements of the younger or more timid individuals which follow along after. During such slowly moving excursions, each individual is rapidly gleaning through the foliage, assuming all possible attitudes in its search for tiny insects among leaves and twigs. The attention of each is on himself as a usual thing, but each is continually uttering a faint but characteristic simple loca
. 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 Bush-Tits who take the initiative, and involuntarily direct the movements of the younger or more timid individuals which follow along after. During such slowly moving excursions, each individual is rapidly gleaning through the foliage, assuming all possible attitudes in its search for tiny insects among leaves and twigs. The attention of each is on himself as a usual thing, but each is continually uttering a faint but characteristic simple location-note, a note of all's-well which indicates safety and also the where- abouts of the main body to stragglers, and each individual to any ; The question of the number of Bush-Tits which may occur in a winter troupe perhaps deserves further atten- tion. While twenty may be a fair average, I recall having seen very much larger troupes near Santa Barbara. One day while working along a south- sloping oak- and chapar- ral-covered hillside be- yond the Riviera I saw what I judged might be a hundred birds cross a certain opening. Then as the route halted, the discharge tree, or posi- tive pole of the Psaltri- parine battery, was seen to be still "full" of Bush- Tits. Presently some fairy recall was sounded, whereupon seventy- seven birds, by actual count, returned across the open. Those who have fol- lowed the fortunes of these little gleaners with any degree of care must have heard at some time or other the confusion-. Taken in Washington NEST OF BUSH-TIT, IN SITU Photo by the Author 63O. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dawson, William Leon, 1873-1928; Dickey, Donald R. (Donald Ryder), 1887-1932; Pierce, Wright M; Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953; Brooks, Allan
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