15.

Sparrow, Golden-crowned, 16.

Sparrow, Song, 21, 22, 117.
nest, 83-84.
young, 83.

Sparrow, White-crowned, 16, 162.

Squirrels, ground, 11.

Swallow, 96.

Swallow, Eave,
drinking on wing, 17.
getting mud for nests, 16-17.
nests on sycamore, 114.

Tanager, Louisiana, 27.
a brilliant stranger, 131.

Thrasher, California, 163-164.
digging with sickle-shaped bill, 163-164.
in chaparral, 6.
song, 6, 169.
straight bills of young, 164.

Titmouse, Plain, 141, 184, 175-183.
building, 175-182.
gladly accepts feathers, 177.
needs no horsehair or straw, 179-181.
nesting sites, 175.
song, 175.

Tit, Wren-, 57, 60, 62, 189-193.
breaking up gnatcatcher's nest, 45, 46, 48.
skulking manners, 49, 59.
song, 6, 169.
usurping a mother's rights, 189-193.

Towhee, California, 28, 46, 47, 57, 58, 59, 92-95, 163, 189, 200.
call note, 92.
common and tame, 92.
nesting, 93, 94.
shy at nest, 93-94.
song, 93.

Towhee, Green-tailed, 162-163.

Towhee, Spurred, 18, 160, 162.
singing, 169.

Trade wind, 68-69.

Trees,
acacia, 189.
elder, 15.
eucalyptus, 211-220;
character of, 213-214, 219-220;
grove, 211-220;
raised for fuel, 211.
live-oaks, 5, 6, 21, 86, 159-170;
garden of, 159-160, 170;
sapped by mistletoe, 167.
pepper, 197.
sycamore, 15, 21, 24-25, 67, 68;
the big, 112-122, 159.
tobacco, 88.
willow, 123.

Turkey Buzzard. See Vulture.

Turtle Dove. See Dove.

Twin Oaks Canyon, 5-6, 159.

Ughland Canyon, 21, 38, 123, 159.

Vineyard, birds eating grubs in, 12-13.

Vireo, Hutton's, 140-146.
a devoted pair, 142.
building, 142, 145.
call note, 145.
fond of nest, 143, 145.
nest, 144.
nesting site, 141, 144.

Vireo, Least,
song, 6, 44, 169.

Vireo, Warbling, 27, 59.
building, 56.
scolding jay, 60.

Vulture, Turkey, 16, 97-98, 162.
circle over fighting snakes, 97.
eating woodpecker, 70.
eating skunk, 201.
queer attitude, 98.
scavenger, 97.
soaring, 97, 98.

Warbler, 160.
migrants, 6, 7, 123.

Waxwing, 69.

Whip-poor-will. See Poor-will.

Woodpecker, California, 65-80, 81, 123.
building, 28.
flycatching, 160.
hunting ground distant from nest, 69.
long intervals in feeding,