. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 383 Mr. A. W. Anthony notes this as one of the most common birds of Northwestern Oregon, rearing three and often four broods in a season. He states that the birds nest in various locations; in hollows of the ground under low bushes, the nest being built flush with the surface; also in holes among the roots of bushes and trees, and many nests are found under wood-piles. Some were found built on the shelf of a rail- road cut, which was screened by a thick curtain of vines. Nesting begins about the last of March, or fir
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 383 Mr. A. W. Anthony notes this as one of the most common birds of Northwestern Oregon, rearing three and often four broods in a season. He states that the birds nest in various locations; in hollows of the ground under low bushes, the nest being built flush with the surface; also in holes among the roots of bushes and trees, and many nests are found under wood-piles. Some were found built on the shelf of a rail- road cut, which was screened by a thick curtain of vines. Nesting begins about the last of March, or first of April. The materials of the nests are dry grasses rather loosely put together with a lining of cow-hair. The eggs are usually four, rarely five in number. In a large series of the eggs of this race of Juned there appears to be no distinguishable difference in coloration from those of J. hyemalis. The average size of ten eggs is . S67o. Oregon Junco. 5676. SHTJi'ELDT'S JTJITCO. Junco hyemalis shufeldti Coale. Geog. Dist.— Rocky Mountain region, west in the mountains of the Great Basin to California; in winter south to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Northern Mexico. Accidental in Michigan, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, etc. Mr. Henry K. Coale, of Highland Park, 111., has named this variety of Junco in honor of Dr. Robert W. Shufeldt, TJ. S. A., who collected the specimens from which the descriptions were made and presented them to TJ. S. National Museum.* The nesting habits and eggs of this bird are identical with those of the Oregon Junco. 567c. THTJRBER'S JUNCO. Jmico hyemalis thurberi Anthony. Geog. Dist.— Sierra Nevada, and deserts and southern coast rangesiof California. The general habits, nests and eggs of this subspecies appear to be precisely the same as J. h. oregonus. Mr. C. W. Crandall has just added to his extensive oological collection an authentic set of four eggs of this bird, taken by Edmund Heller, in the San Bernardino Mountains,
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