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the fine inner bark of Juniperus occidentalis. The whole mass is 

 well woven together, and makes quite a warm, comfortable struc- 

 ture. The outer diameter of the nest is eight and a half inches ; 

 the inner, four and a half; depth inside, three and a quarter inches; 

 outside, five inches. The two eggs measure respectively 1.22 by 

 .95 inches, and 1.20 by .90. Ground color, light grayish-green, 

 speckled and blotched with grayish, principally about the larger 

 end. On the smaller egg the spots are finer and more evenly dis- 

 tributed, a few of them being rather of a lavender color than gray. 

 These eggs resemble in shape those of Maximilian's Jay (Gymnokitta 

 cyanocephela), two of whose eggs I have from Mr. Aiken out of the 

 nest found by him in Colorado. The markings on those, however, 

 are darker and thicker than on those of Clarke's Crow, and the 

 eggs are a little smaller. 



All the nests I have seen were placed in pine trees, well out on 

 the limbs, and generally twenty to forty feet from the ground. 

 Trees with plenty of branches seem to be preferred, and the edges 

 of the pine timber to the interior of the forests. Now that I know 

 where to look for these nests, I have no difficulty in finding them, 

 and feel certain of getting a number of nests if I am here next 

 year. I regret that I did not discover one a few weeks earlier. 



The female seems to be a very close sitter, and the birds seem 

 very devoted to their young and eggs. "When the first nest was 

 visited the bird would not leave it at all, and though the man 

 pulled out part of its tail in taking it off, it came back again before 

 he left the nest himself. On the second visit, in order to see how 

 much disturbance these birds would bear when on the nest, I fired 

 a charge of shot into the limb on which the nest was placed from 

 which I took the two eggs, and about two feet from the nest, and 

 no bird leaving I threw sticks at it and hit the base of the nest 

 once or twice, but still no bird appeared. Then I had the man 

 who was with me climb the tree, and only after he was within a 

 foot of the nest and in plain sight of the bird did it fly off. The 

 young one left in the nest had grown very much during the five 

 days since the first visit. 



