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located ten feet up in a willow thicket. It was built of large 

 coarse sticks and lined with fine dry rootlets, mud having been 

 freely used in cementing the structure together. Above the nest 

 proper was a roof-like arch, of sticks. This made the nest very 

 conspicuous. The top of the nest proper was not horizontal, but 

 slanted toward the south. There was considerable fecal matter 

 about and on it, and it consequently had a very disagreeable 

 odor. The nest cavity was 203 mm. (8 inches) in diameter, and 

 contained six eggs. A second nest was built in an elder {Sam- 

 hue us fjlauca). Its height above the ground was the same as 

 that of the one just described. This nest was built in every way 

 like the first except that the dome over it was constructed of 

 thorny rosebush twigs, which formed a rather open cover. This 

 nest had no definite opening, there being several possible en- 

 trances on the south. Contained in it were three young birds, 

 with Juvenal feathers just appearing, and three eggs. Another 

 Juvenal was found dead on the edge of the nest. The second 

 colony of magpies had all built in quaking aspens. These nests 

 had l)een occupied earlier in the season (they w'ere found June 

 15). Companies of adults and juvenals were several times heard 

 in their vicinity. The preferred height for nests w^as eight to 

 fifteen feet above the ground. The adults and young were 

 traveling about in company during the latter part of June and 

 the first of July. Frequently from thickets along a stream two 

 unlike series of harsh "squawks," evidently indicative of the 

 progress of feeding operations, would be heard, the squawks 

 being referable to parent and young one respectively. 



Aphelocoma woodhousei (Baird) 

 Woodhouse Jay 

 One was flushed from a willow-thicket near Quinn River. 

 This (no. 9093) was the only jay seen. Hoffman (1881, p. 234) 

 found this species rather common in Nevada. 



Corvus corax sinuatus Wagler 

 Western Raven 

 Noted only at Quinn River Crossing and Rig Creek Ranch. 

 Individuals were several times seen and heard about the former 



