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50. Sayornis sayus (Bonaparte). Say's Phoebe.— Say's Phoebe was 

 fairly common on the open flats below Lake Burford, and was heard calling 

 plaintively in the evenings. Occasionally tbey were seen hovering over 

 open flats in much the same manner as the Mountain Bluebird. The 

 call note is a whistled phee-ur. A nest found on June 9 in a deep, narrow 

 arroyo was placed on a narrow shelf three feet above the bottom, where 

 the overhanging bank concealed it from view. This nest was composed 

 of a few bits of weed stems and rootlets, bound together with spider 

 webbing, and was felted firmly with a mass of sheep's wool gathered from 

 the surrounding sagebrush. The interior was made almost entirely of 

 wool, and was very soft and resilient. It contained four pure white 

 eggs. 



51. Myiochanes richardsoni richardsoni (Swainson). Western 

 Wood Pewee. — The Wood Pewee was fairly common among the Yellow 

 Pines on the hills above Lake Burford. 



52. Empidonax wrighti Baird. Wright's Flycatcher. — This small 

 flycatcher was common among junipers and pines in the dry hills back of 

 Lake Burford. It was first seen on May 25, but was probably present 

 on my arrival. These birds were found over the dry hillsides above the 

 gulches, perching near the ground, or, at times, mounting thirty or forty 

 feet in the Yellow Pines. Sometimes they hopped restlessly from one 

 perch to another, trying several in succession before being satisfied. The 

 birds were often shy and difficult to approach. The ordinary call note 

 was a loud tsee-wick, given almost as one syllable, that when heard near 

 at hand was startlingly like the chebec of the Least flycatcher. At a dis- 

 tance however this resemblance was lost. The males had a peculiar 

 jerky song divided into couplets with slight pauses between that may be 

 represented by the syllables see-wick, tsee-ee, se-wick, tsil-ly tsee-ee. 



53. Pica pica hudsonia (Sabine). Magpie. — One or two pairs of 

 Magpies nested near the eastern shore of Lake Burford. The birds were 

 seen almost daily and one or two old nests were observed. 



54. Cyanocitta stelleri diademata (Bonaparte). Long-crested 

 Jay. — This Jay was common among the Yellow Pines on the hills above 

 Lake Burford. Well grown young out of the nest were observed on June 

 16. 



55. Perisoreus canadensis capitalis Ridgway. Rocky Mountain 

 Jay. — One was seen on a high hill east of the lake on June 16. 



56. Corvus corax sinuatus (Wagler). American Raven. — Common 

 around Lake Burford and nesting along the cliffs in the canyon below the 

 lake. Ravens came over daily to feed along the lakeshore and in the 

 sage-brush above it. On May 28 one alighted near the cabin and picked 

 up and ate several white-footed mice that I had trapped in the cabin 

 and thrown out near the door. 



57. Corvus brachyrhynchos hesperis Ridgway. Western Crow. 

 Several pairs nested about the lake and came down daily to the shore. 



