. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. THRUSHES 245 abandoned Woodpecker hole, corners oi barns and out- buildings, and even under the eaves of porches or houses; in parts of the West, old abandoned mine shafts are utilized; the nest is built almost entirely of dried grass, and is lined occasionally with a few feathers and hue strips of cedar or other tree bark. Eggs: From 4 to 7, usually 5, plain greenish-blue. Distribution.— Mountain districts of western North America; north to Mackenzie and Yukon Territory; breeding southward to higher mountains of Xew and Arizona (San Francis
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. THRUSHES 245 abandoned Woodpecker hole, corners oi barns and out- buildings, and even under the eaves of porches or houses; in parts of the West, old abandoned mine shafts are utilized; the nest is built almost entirely of dried grass, and is lined occasionally with a few feathers and hue strips of cedar or other tree bark. Eggs: From 4 to 7, usually 5, plain greenish-blue. Distribution.— Mountain districts of western North America; north to Mackenzie and Yukon Territory; breeding southward to higher mountains of Xew and Arizona (San Francisco and MogoUon Mountains), and Chihuahua, eastward to eastern Wyo- ming (Black Hills) and northwestern Texas, westward to the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges; wintering southward from southern California and Colorado to Guadalupe Island, Lower California, northern Sonora, and northwestern Chihuahua and eastward to Kansas. Oklahoma, and Texas. Though it is somewhat larger, and has a jiro- portioiiately shorter tail, the Mountain liluebird presents a general appearance very similar to that of its eastern relative. As its name indi- cates, however, it has a distinct liking for the mountains. A\'ells ^^'. Cooke found the birds in Colorado above timber-line to at least 13,000 feet. Another observer records being greeted by a little family of them near the summit of San Antonio Peak (" Old Baldy,") in southern Cali- fornia, at an altitude of nearly 10,000 feet, at that time far above the clouds, through whose dense billows the highest of the surrounding peaks protruded like islands in a motionless sea. The indescribable weirdness of the scene, and the unearthly quiet, which had deeply imjiressed the lone wanderer, had no apparent efifect upon the Bluebirds, whose warbling was- as sweet and gentle up there above the clouds as that of their eastern brethern in a Connecticut X'alley orchard. Their insect food is obtainable at all times of the year, and the general diet vari
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