. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 467 scrub oaks and grease-wood brush that fringe deep mountain gorges. It begins to build toward the last of April, and by the last of May it is difficult to procure a per- fectly fresh set of eggs. The bird, he says, is a close sitter, often allowing one's hand to touch it before leaving the nest. The general character of the. nest is a coarse, rudely constructed platform of sticky, coarse grass and mosses, with but a very slight depression. Occasionally, however, nests of this bird are more carefully and elabor- at
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 467 scrub oaks and grease-wood brush that fringe deep mountain gorges. It begins to build toward the last of April, and by the last of May it is difficult to procure a per- fectly fresh set of eggs. The bird, he says, is a close sitter, often allowing one's hand to touch it before leaving the nest. The general character of the. nest is a coarse, rudely constructed platform of sticky, coarse grass and mosses, with but a very slight depression. Occasionally, however, nests of this bird are more carefully and elabor- ately made. It is. always well hid in the low scrub bushes. The usual complement of eggs is three, sometimes four and occasionally only two. They are light greenish- blue, with russet-brown and chestnut spots; average size Ten specimens measure , , , , ^.80, , , , .79, inches. 711. LECONTE'S THRASHER. Harporhynchus lecontei (hSLWT.) Geog. Dist.— Valleys of the Gila and Lower Colorado Rivers, south into Sonora. This is the least common of all the T^hrashers In the region whibh It InhabitSi and from all accounts it Is a very shy and difficult bird to obtain. Comparatively few of its eggs have yet appeared In collections. Mr. B. Holterhoff, Jr., discovered its nest and eggs at Flowing Wells, a station in the middle of the Colorado Desert, in California.* In the same region a number of the nests and eggs have been taken by Mr. P. Stephens and R. B. Herron. Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, U. S. A., met with this bird in the desert country, between Phoenix and Casa Grande, He' states that the song of this species Is remarkable for its loud, rich tone, and Is at least as fine as any of the genug. Deserts of sand, "covered in places with patches of sage-brush and groves of cholla cactuses, with a few mesquites and shrubs scattered along the dry ar- royos," are the favorite haunts of Le- conte'
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