Quiet in manner, indefinite in color and faint-voiced — a low pit — these birds could be easily overlooked in the Alpine coniferous forests they frequent. If the young are raised in low altitudes, the family makes a vertical migration to cool mountain recesses in summer.
NEST: of weed stems, bark and vegetable-down, located in bushes or trees, from 3 to 50 feet up.
EGGS: 3 or 4; creamy white, rarely specked with small brown dots.
Western North America from southwestern Alaska to southern California and Colorado.
A tree 100 feet high, distributed in vallies of southern California.