Bird Records from Merced County, California
Bird Records from Mereed County, California
On April 6, 1936, a friend, Mr. T. D. Southward of LeGrand, Merced County, who has been banding birds for a year or more, called on me with a strange sparrow in his cage. After consulting Corms’ Key and asking the opinion of Mr. J. A. Neff, I determined it to be a male Harris Sparrow (Zonotrichia querula) in molting plumage.
The specimen is now in my Merced County collection. Another young friend of mine from near LeGrand, Mr. Calvin Stevens, who also bands birds occasionally, has a record or two of interest. On February 28, 1936, he captured a male juvenile White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrickia albicollis). On March 1, 1936, he added a Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) to Merced County records. On February 2, 1936, he shot a beautiful adult male Goshawk (Astur atricapillus) on the bank of a creek in Merced County near the Sierra Nevada foothills.
R. H. Beck
Planada, California, April 8, 1936
