CArRIMl'LGID.K — THE GOATSLTKKIia 4|(j 



siii;4le specimen, shot near the town of San Antonio, where it was of iin- 

 couinion occurrence. He receivetl also another specimen from Fort Stock- 

 ton. During liis stay at Alatamoras he did not notice tiiis hirtl, hut was 

 informeil that a kiml resemWing this species was very common at a rancho 

 about twenty-Hve miles distant, on the Monterey road. l)r. Coues tound 

 this species particularly abundant throughout Arizona. At Fort Whipple it 

 was a summer resident, arriving there late in April and remaining until 

 October. So numerous was it in some localities, that anjund the camp- 

 fires of the traveller a i)erfect chorus of their phiintive two-syllabled notes 

 was continued incessantly through the night, some of the performers being 

 so near that the sharp click of their mandilAes was distinctly audible. 



Mr. J. A. Allen found this sjHicies abundant on the lower i)arts of the 

 mountains in C'oloratlo, and heard the notes of scores of them near the 

 mouth of Ogden Canon on several occasions after nightfall. Though so 

 numerous, all efforts to jjrocure specimens were futile, as it did not usu- 

 ally manifest its presence till after it became too dark for it to be clearly dis- 

 tinguished. He saw it last, October 7, during a severe snow-storm on the 

 mountains north of Ogden. It had been quite common during the gi'eater 

 part of September. He also met with this bird at an elevation of 7,()00 

 feet. He had previously ascertained its presence throughout Kansas from 

 Leavenworth to Fort Hays. 



From these varied observations the range of this species may be given as 

 from the valley of the llio Orande and the more northern States of Mexico, 

 throughout New Mexico, Arizona, and the Great Plains nearly to the Pacific, 

 in California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. 



The egg of this species (13,587) was obtained among the East Humboldt 

 Mountains, by Mr. Robert liidgNvay, July 20, 18G8. Its measurement is 

 l.OG inches in length by .81 of an inch in breadth. It is of a regularly 

 elliptical form, being equally rounded at either end. Its color is a clear 

 dead-white, entirely unspotted. The egg was found deposited on the bare 

 ground beneath a sage-bush, on a foot-slope of the mountains. The nest 

 was nothing more than a bare spot, apparently worn by the body of the bird. 

 When found, the male bird was sitting on the egg, and was shot as it flew 

 from the spot. 



Mr. Salvin (Ibis, III. p. 64) mentions taking, April 20, 1860, on the moun- 

 tains of Santa Barbara, Central America, a si)ecies of Antrostomus, a female, 

 with two eggs. This is spoken of as nearly jdlied to, perhaps identical with, 

 A. vociferus. Its eggs are, however, spoken of as white, measuring 1.05 

 inches by .80 of an inch, almost exactly the size of the eggs of this species. 

 Mr. Salvin adds : " I do not quite understand these eggs being white, except 

 by supposing them to be accidentally so. In other respects, i. e. in form 

 and texture, they agree with the eggs of other species of Caprimuhjidir. 

 These eggs, two in number, were on the ground at the foot of a large pine- 

 tree. There was no nest." 



