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13. Harelda glacialis, Leach. Long-tailed Duck. — "Obtained by 

 Professor Stein at Mt. Carmel, in December, 1874." Exceedingly abundant 

 on Lake Michigan every winter. 



14. Graculus dilophus var. floridanus, Coues. Florida Cormo- 

 rant. — "In the spring of 1874, several very fine specimens of the Florida 

 Cormorant were obtained at Mt. Carmel by Mr. S. Turner and my brother, 

 John L. Ridgway, and others were obtained during the succeeding sum- 

 mer, the species being abundant along the river. This form is a summer 

 resident, while the true G. dilophus occurs only in winter and during the 

 migrations." 



NOTES ON THE BREEDING HABITS OF CLARKE'S CROW 

 (PICICORVUS COLUMBIANUS), WITH AN ACCOUNT OF 

 ITS NEST AND EGGS. 



BY CAPTAIN CHARLES BENDIRE, U. S. A. 



[The following account of the breeding habits, nests, and eggs of Clarke's 

 Crow is based on observations made the present year in the vicinity of Camp 

 Harney, Oregon, by Captain Bendire, and is compiled, with his permission, 

 from his letters addressed to the writer. The only previous account of the 

 nest and eggs of Clarke's Crow seems to be that given by Mr. J. K. Lord (in 

 his " Naturalist in Vancouver "), who found this species nesting near Fort Col- 

 ville, in Washington Territory, in the top of a high pine, two hundred feet 

 from the ground. — J. A. Allen.] 



On April 22, 1876, I succeeded in finding two nests of Clarke's 

 Crow. One contained three young, possibly four days old ; the 

 other, one young bird and two eggs, one of the latter already 

 cracked. The nests were placed in pine trees. On the 27th I 

 again visited the mountains, and made thorough search near where 

 the first nests were found, and discovered another in which the 

 young could not have been more than one day old. One of the 

 nests discovered on the first visit I brought away in excellent 

 order. It was placed on the extremity of a branch, on a pine 

 (Pinus ponderosa), about twenty-five feet from the ground, and well 

 protected from view by longer branches projecting both above and 

 below the nest. It is a bulky affair, like all the others I have 

 seen, but looks quite small as viewed from below. The nest proper 

 rested on a platform of small sticks of the white sage, placed on the 

 pine branches, and is composed of dry grasses, vegetable fibres and 



