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three feet from the trunk of the tree. 

 Eggs, three. This nest was very con- 

 spicuous as no vegetation served to 

 conceal the nest. On May 26th I again 

 visited this nest and found the eggs 

 gone. 



In my experience the majority of 

 Brown Thrasher's nests are placed 

 from four to six feet up, though prob- 

 ably more nests would be found on the 

 ground except for the fact that ground 

 nests are of course less conspicuous 

 and hence less easily discovered. 



Emerson A. Stoner, 

 June 2, 1922. Benecia, Cal. 



information from the next spring's mi- 

 gration. Will they come back? 



— R. M. B. 



MORE DOPE ON THE BROWN 

 THRASHER 



Until I read Mr. DuBois' article in 

 the April Oologist, it had never struck 

 me as odd that I had never seen many 

 Thrashers nesting on the ground. Still 

 it seems as if I have been more than 

 lucky in this regard. 



Our whole great acreage of orchard 

 has been for some fifteen years care- 

 fully watched and protected until it 

 has become a bird haven. About eight 

 years ago, just twenty yards from our 

 house was a very thick clump of wild 

 roses. Then one season I discovered 

 the nest of a Brown Thrasher snuggled 

 up next the thickest clump of roots 

 and protected by the thick skins. The 

 pair hatched and the young were ma- 

 tured safely. For two years following 

 there was a ground nest somewhere in 

 that clump of bushes presumably built 

 by the same pair of birds. 



Since that time there have grown up 

 close by many other shrubs and the 

 cedar trees. There is always a Thrash- 

 er nesting close by the old brier patch. 

 At present there are four husky young 

 birds growing up in the cedar tree. 

 The two old birds I have recently 

 banded, and I expect both pleasure ana 



OLD PRICES AND NEW 



In view of the fact that we have re- 

 cently issued an Exchange Price List 

 of North American Birds' Eggs, we 

 thought it might interest the readers 

 of The Oologist to peruse the follow- 

 ing list of cash prices which came into 

 our possession at the time we pur- 

 chased the Christ collection a couple 

 of years ago — R. M. B. 



Western Screech Owl .$150 



Western Goshawk 2.00 



American Goshawk 1.50 



Sharp-Shinned Hawk 75 



Harris Hawk 2.00 



Swainson's Hawk 1.50 



Red-tailed Hawk 1.25 



Western Red Tailed Hawk 1.50 



Red Shouldered Hawk 1.00 



Red-bellied Hawk 1.50 



Rough-legged Hawk 1.25 



Mottled Owl 60 



Western Owl 1.25 



Rocky Mountain Screech Owl.... 1.25 



Yellow Billed Cuckoo 20 



Lewis's Woodpecker 40 



Black-Backed Three-toed Wood- 

 pecker 1 50 



Black (Pileated) Woodpecker 90 



Cuban Nighthawk 1.25 



Great Crested Flycatcher 20 



Least Flycatcher 15 



Wood Thrush 20 



Gray Checked Thrush 75 



Robin 04 



Maryland Yellow Throat 20 



White Bellied Nuthatch 50 



Summer Yellow Bird 15 



Downy Woodpecker 30 



Fox colored Sparrow 20 



Texan Cardinal 75 



