Nesting Time. 



form' an irregular ring. The thrush 

 builds a rather bulky nest in a bush or 

 thicket, often near a stream, and its eggs 

 are bluish green spotted with brown. 

 The black-headed grosbeak makes a 

 very flimsy apology for a nest out of 

 sticks and rootlets, in which are deposited 

 three or four greenish eggs, heavily 

 spotted with brown. The loud, sweet 

 and clear, but monotonous song of the 

 male bird is uttered from morning until 

 night. It may be expressed by the 

 syllables cherrie', cherried cherrie' chee^ 

 chee^ chee' I 



The list of loiterers who do not 

 begin to breed until during the latter 

 half of May is small, including the 

 mourning-dove, which lays two white 

 eggs upon the merest platform of twigs, 

 the western kingbird, a rather rare 

 breeder in the immediate vicinity, the 

 Oregon towhee, and probably the ash- 

 throated flycatcher, although eggs of 

 this last species are not recorded before 

 the ninth of June. The Oregon tow- 

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