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and the other in a dead quaking ash about twenty feet from the ground 
and at an altitude of about 7800 feet. 
In neither case was there any nest built, the eggs being deposited on 
the litter at the bottom of the hole. Diligent search did not secure the 
male birds. 
These nests were in the foothills about thirty miles nearly west south- — 
west from Pueblo, Colorado.— D. P. INGRAHAM, Beulah, Colorado. 
Nesting of the Short-eared Owl in Southern California.— On March 27, 
1896, Mr. H. L. Rivers and the writer found a nest of this bird (Aszo 
acctpitrinus) containing six eggs, the incubation varying from very slight 
to well advanced. The location was near low meadow ground about five 
miles from the coast in this County, but the nest was about twenty- 
six feet up in the top of a thick-foliaged oak, among some sycamores 
bordering a dry stream bed. Another unoccupied nest was placed two or 
three feet higher in the opposite side of the same tree. Both nests were 
composed of sticks, lined with oak leaves and a few feathers, the depres- 
sion in each being very slight. 
When within a few feet of the occupied nest the bird flew off and being 
joined by its mate, the pair held a ‘pow wow’ in the grass, uttering 
squeals like a rat. While the nest was being examined one bird perched 
almost at arm’s length in the foliage of the tree. 
Two weeks later, when I revisited the locality, neither bird was seen, 
but the nest, which had previously been empty, contained a dried up egg 
without a shell. 
Of this bird Captain Bendire said “it is not improbable that it may 
sometimes breed in California and Nevada.”—M. L. Wicks, JR., Los 
Angeles, Cal. 
Partnership Nesting of Valley Partridge and Long-tailed Chat.— The 
nest was discovered by a little girl, and was composed of grass and straws 
placed in a small depression of the ground above which it projected 
slightly ; over all was a dead eucalyptus limb to which the dry leaves still 
clung. The locality was this County, within five feet of a road which 
had been quite frequently traveled up to a week before, at which time the 
road had been changed. Not thirty feet from the spot a cluster of wild 
blackberry vines had been burnt down a few months previous; in them 
a Chat (lcterta virens luongicauda), probably the same one, had nested for 
years. 
The Partridge (Call:pepla californica vallicola) was flushed from the 
nest when first discovered; it had been covering two of its own and three 
Chat eggs, the Chat itself not being seen. On a second visit that.after- 
noon the Chat flew off; the Partridge was not visible. The next day at 
noon a third trip was made; the Chat was on the nest, the female Par- 
tridge being in the vicinity. The number of Chat eggs had been increased 
to four; the Partridge eggs were still two in number.— M. L. WIckKs, JR., 
Los Angeles, Cal. 
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