154 OREGON GROUND ROBIN. 
bush, usually by the side of a stream. Five 
eges is the number generally laid. 
OrEGoN Ground Rosin (Pepilo oregonus, 
Bell).—This quaintrestless bird is very abundant, 
from the coast to the summit of the Rocky 
Mountains, and is also very common on Vancouver 
Island. They arrive in April and May, and fre- 
quent dark woods and thick tangled underbrush. 
Stealthy and shy, its habit is to hide, but a love 
of hearing its own ugly voice invariably betrays 
the place of concealment. The ery—for it is not a 
song, but something like the squall of the cat-bird 
—comes from the most unlikely places, often 
startling one into a momentary belief in ghouls 
and wood demons. I found a nest, after days of 
tiresome waiting and watching; it was placed on 
the top of a stump, round which young shoots 
had grown like a fringe, completely hiding it from 
the sharpest eye; the birds descended to it 
through the twigs, that formed a vegetable tube. 
Not a neat nest, but clumsily put together with 
varied materials, lined with hair, and in it six 
egos. 
GREY-CROWNED Fincu (Leucosticte tephrocotis, 
Swainson ).—My first acquaintance with this very 
rare and beautiful bird was made on the summit 
of the Cascade Mountains, on a hill we named 
