Part 19

Bush-tit, California, 28, 56, 59, 103-111, 117, 161, 162, 166. building, 105-107, 108, 110, 184. call notes, 109, 110. common bird, 103. destroys olive scale, 103. legend of firefly lamps, 105. local name, 56. nest, 103, 104, 105. nesting site, 103. nest roof falls in, 106. second nest better built, 107, 109. snake in nest, 108.

Butcherbird. See Shrike.

Butterflies, migrating, 160.

California, southern, 147. colors, 212. marsh in, 118. natural irrigation, 21. sky, 67.

Canello, 2. afraid of boggy land, Mexicans, and rattlesnakes, 2-3, 127-128. indifferent to water snakes, 15. made nervous by hummingbird, 7. miring, 17-19. visiting feathered tenants with, 123-139.

Chaparral, 5, 6, 55, 61, 94, 100, 103-104, 159, 167, 197, 201.

Chaparral cock. See Road-runner.

Chat, long-tailed, 163.

Chewink. See Towhee.

Chickadee, 103, 176.

Coast Mountains, 1, 4, 6, 15, 102, 104, 112, 113. valley in, 1, 2, 4, 5, 20, 112. at morning, 5, 68, 112, 137. in evening, 19, 101, 102, 121, 122. under moonlight, 102.

Coyote wolves, barking, 91, 102. chasing a dog, 119. in eucalyptus, 214.

Crow, killed bee-bird, 92. nest, 212.

Dove, Mourning, 21, 118, 141, 161, 169, 219. a gentle pair, 166. brooding, 67. friendliness, 42, 45. nest, 216. nesting site, 40, 166, 216. perches, 57, 160. superior airs of male, 116, 117. timidity, 41, 42. trailing, 215.

Eagle, 13.

Egret, White, 17.

Finch, Western House, 117, 160. avoids shrike neighborhood, 126. bathing, 16. courtship, 90. common birds, 92. discussions, 28. examining wren's nest, 25. implicated in tragedy, 171-174. nesting sites, 90, 96, 172, 186. songs, 90. stealing wren's material, 171. using swallow's nest, 96.

Flicker, Red-shafted, 136-137, 160. building, 136. nesting site, 27, 136. notes, 136. works as if wound up, 136.

Flowers and Plants, blue sage, 61, 147. chilicothe, 168. dodder, 89-90. 'fly flower,' 160. forget-me-not, 128. mallow, 128. mustard, 14, 67, 119, 123, 127, 147. on border of pond, 15. poison oak, 167. 'poppy,' 160. primrose, 69, 147. wild celery, 120. wild gooseberry, 147.

Flycatcher, 140. in chaparral, 6.

Fog, 19, 68, 101, 112.

Goldfinch, 21, 44, 164, 215, 219. feeding, 7. nest, 23. nest destroyed, 27. nesting site, 184, 186. note, 215.

Gnatcatcher, Western, 38-64, 81, 123, 161, 205. building, 48-60, 61, 62. calls, 43, 44, 45. comical parents, 63, 64. defending nest, 45, 57, 58. egg broken by wren-tit, 46. eggshell carried away, 46. feeding young in new way, 63-64. jaunty nervous manners, 38, 39, 40, 41, 44, 56, 63. nest, 39, 41, 60, 168. nesting site, 39, 48, 60, 61, 167. nest moved, 60. spelling each other, 43, 44, 62. talkative, 41.

Gophers, 70, 136.

Grosbeak, Black-headed, migrants, 8, 58. song, 170.

Grosbeak, Blue, 120.

Hangbird. See Bush-tit.

Hawk, Buteo, building, 135. more likely to eat gophers than birds, 136.