56 EGG CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
color, impure white, with splashes of umber and a few small spots of pale 
lilac blended together, covering the whole of the larger end, the remaining 
surface being covered by small and separate markings of the same colors 
in a little lighter shade ”’ 
16. Harporhynchus redivivus. 
Californian Thrasher. 
This bird appears to be confined to the coast of California, It begins 
nesting early in February. The nest is usually placed three feet from the 
ground and is always well hid in a clump of bushes. The bird is very 
tame when nesting. The eggs, three in number, are of a greenish-blue, 
marked with reddish and light-chocolate spots. 
26. Phatnopepla nitens. 
Black-crested Flycatcher. 
Prof. B. W. Evermann, who has kindly furnished me with a large 
number of notes on the nesting habits of the birds of California and whom 
I will frequently have occasion to refer to here, has made some interesting 
observations concerning the nesting habits of this bird. As to the number 
of eggs that this bird lays, he says: ‘‘I do not consider ¢ivee eggs to be an 
unusual number, in California at least, Eighty per cent of the sets I 
found contained ¢irvee eggs. Captain Bendire, I know, never found more 
than ¢wo in a set in Arizona. The probabilities are that fo broods are 
raised in Arizona while but ove is raised farther north, and those indi- 
viduals that nest north try to make up in /arge sets what they lose in 
number of sets. The facts, I believe, will bear out this theory.”’ 
A nest of this species, containing three eggs, collected by Prof. Ever- 
mann in Ventura County, California, is in my collection. It is rather a 
flat structure composed of twigs, stems, mosses and vegetable fibres. It 
is lined with finer vegetable substances. Its size is three and a half inches 
in width by two deep. 
Ten sets of eggs, together with the nests of this species, collected 
between the 25th of May and June 28, 1883, by R. B. Herron, near San 
Gorgonio Pass, Cal., are in my collection. Each of these nests, how- 
ever, contains two eggs. 
61. Thryomanes Bewtcke. 
; Bewick’s Wren. 
On the 17th of May, 1882, Dr. Howard Jones, of Circleville, Ohio, 
obtained what are believed to be the first nest and eggs of this species 
ever taken in the State. 
