Breeding of the San Diego Titmouse on the Mohave Desert
Journal
Condor
Volume
24
Issue
2 (March-April)
Year
1922
Pages
63
Section
From Field and Study
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Breeding of the San Diego Titmouse on the Mohave Desert
April 12 of the present year, the junior writer collected a pair of San Diego Titmouses (Baeolophus inornatus murinus), five miles east of Palmdale. in the yucca-juniper association. The female had apparently laid but a short time previously, and there was undoubtedly a nest near at hand. Another pair was heard (but not taken) a few hundred yards away. These two birds are most like murinus, but are not typical of that form. They are grayer dorsally, and the wing of the male measures longer than that of any coast slope bird we have. These differences possibly indicate a tendency toward griseus.
D. R. Dickey, A. J. Van Rossem
Pasadeua, California, December 5, 1921
