. The oist . es of coarse grass; then as a liningwhich was very thick, fine grass topswere used. On the whole it was puttogether rath er substantially and wasroofed over or domed, the entrance ofwhich was about two or three inchesfrom the ground, being nearly two andone-half inches in diameter. Capt. Charles E. Bendire very ablydescribes its nests and I think that amuch better idea can be gotten con-cerning them by reading what he saysthan any description that I can offer,so I will quote it in full, as follows:All the nests of this bird vary totallyin structure from those of the otherspecies o
. The oist . es of coarse grass; then as a liningwhich was very thick, fine grass topswere used. On the whole it was puttogether rath er substantially and wasroofed over or domed, the entrance ofwhich was about two or three inchesfrom the ground, being nearly two andone-half inches in diameter. Capt. Charles E. Bendire very ablydescribes its nests and I think that amuch better idea can be gotten con-cerning them by reading what he saysthan any description that I can offer,so I will quote it in full, as follows:All the nests of this bird vary totallyin structure from those of the otherspecies of the genus Peuccea, as far asknown to me. They are all distinctlyroofed-over or domed, a feature onlyfound in the nest of a closely alliedspecies, Embernagra rufivirgata, theTexas Sparrow, which constructs asomewhat similar nest. They are cy-lindrical in shape, about seven or eightinches long by three inches in heightand four and one-half inches inner cavity it from three to four 66 I tOHMflSI .. CALIFORNIA VULTURE. Pseudographus colifornianus. THK UOLOGIST 67 inches in length, about two inches wideand one and three-quarters inch rear wall of the nest is about oneand three-quarters inches thick, thesides about an inch, and the roof a. lit-tle over half an inch in measurements xavy somewhat indifferent specimens. The nests are allconstructed out of dry grasses exclus-ively, and are lined with fine grass topsonly. Some are much more artisticallyand compactly built than others, theroof projects somewhat over the en-trance in all cases. So far I have neglected to say muchabout the contents of this nest. It con-tained lour eggs, of a dead whitecolor. [ knew the eggs must be of akind of Sparrow but what species Icould not positively tell. Took nestand eggs and started back home but asluck would have it, when I was goingthrough a strip of woods a twig turnedthe nest over and out rolled two of mybeauties, one smashed up while theother fell in some
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