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rather less loud. We always found this little bird to be exceedingly con- 

 fiding and unsuspicious ; so much so, indeed, that when collecting its eggs 

 on the Toyabe Mountains, an attempt to catch the parent bird with the 

 liand, as it sat upon the nest, proved successful in nearly every instance. 

 One specimen was, on this occasion, frightened from off its eggs by our 

 stumbling against the sapling containing the nest before the latter was dis- 

 covered, and alighted in another bush some distance off; it was fired at but 

 apparently missed, for it flew and disappeared; we were therefore consider- 

 ably astonished, upon returning to secure the nest, to find the bird again 

 upon her eggs, where she remained without making the least attempt to 

 escape, and suffered herself to be caught, when it was found that several of 

 her quill and tail-feathers had been carried away, and one toe cut off, by 

 tlic shot we bad fired. 



Lint of specimens. 



208, <J ad; eastern .slope West Humboldt Mountains, September 21, 1807. 5}|— 

 8i — 2| — -i—^ji — i — 2-j\ — IJ. Upper mandible, uniform deep black, lower mandible 

 dilute chrome-yellow; iris, hazel; tarsi and toes, deep black. 



508, <J aci.; Carson City, Nevada, April 21, 1868. 6j5-_9|— 3— 2i. Upper man- 

 dible, black, lower dilute brownish-white, dusky toward end; whole interior of mouth, 

 intense yellow; iris, deep sepia; tarsi and toes, deep black. 



827, nest and eggs (4); 828, nest and eggs (3); 829, nest and eggs (2); 830, ne.st 

 and eggs (4j; 831, nest and egg (1). Austin, Nevada, July 3, 1808. No. 827 in 

 mountain-mahogany bush, on extreme summit of hill, about 2,000 feet above camp, 

 or at an aUitiule of 9,000 feet; the others all in aspen thickets, and within reach of the 

 hand. 



832, ? ad. (parent of No. 828, caught on nest, by hand!) ; Austin, Nevada, July 3, 

 18G8. 5J — 8-f'^ — 2| — 2-j^g. Upper mandible, sepia-black, lower dilute sepia-brown, 

 yellowish basally; iris, dark sepia; tarsi and toes, deep black. 



833, ? ad. (parent of No. 827, caught on nest, by hand !) ; Austin, Nevada, July 3, 

 1SG8. 6^— 8f— 2^— 2-fV Same remarks. 



8G7, ? juv.; Camp 19, East Humboldt Mountains, August 10, 1808. ^—^—{l)— 

 -k- Upper mandible, black, lower, with terminal half, 'light yellowish, basally more 

 pinkish ; interior of mouth, lemon-yellow; iris, dark sepia; tarsi and toe.s, deep black. 



895, $ ad.; Camp 23, East Humboldt Mountains, September 0, 18GS. 5i|— 8f— 

 (?) — 2j't. Upper mandible, black, lower dilute brown, paler and more yellowish 

 basally; interior of mouth, orange-yellow; iris, umber; tarsi and toes, deep black. 



890, ? ad.; Camp 23, East Humboldt Mountains, September 0, 18GS. 5fi— 9— 

 (?) — 2/j. Same remarks. 



897, $ ad.; Camp 23, East Humboldt Mountains, September 0, 1808. C— 9— (?)— 

 2'i. Same remarks. 



