424 ' NESTS AND EGGS OF 



cinity, of Santa Cruz, though not in abundance. Retiring in habits, their nests and 

 eggs are rarely found. April 7, 1874, I found a nest placed ten feet from the ground, 

 suspended from a dead branch of a Ndffundo, containing three eggs incubated about 

 five days, March 30, 1875, I found another nest placed eight, feet from the ground, 

 suspended from the small twigs of a Frangula. The nest — a neat, compact, structure, 

 composed of fine vegetable fibres, bits of paper, and grasses covered on the outside 

 ■with green and gray mosses, lined with fine grasses — measures 3.25 inches in diameter 

 outside, 1.75 inside; depth 2.25 outside, 1.50 inside. The eggs, four in numbfer, are 

 white (a delicate blush-color before blown), marked with minute dots of reddish- 

 brown, more numerous towards the larger end. They measure respectively, .70x.52, 

 .70x.51, .69x.51, .68X.52. Two other nests were found; each containing four eggs. 

 They were placed, one in a Negunda, thirty feet high, the other at the extremity of an 

 oak limb, twenty-five feet from the ground."* Mr. Walter E. Bryant notes a pair of 

 these Vireos (observed by C. W. Knox) which built in the outer branches of a live 

 oak, only a few feet above the exhaust pipe from, a steam pump, where at times they 

 were compelled to suspend work, owing to the dense vapor which enveloped them. 

 Four eggs were laid in this nest. 



632a. STEPHENS'S VIBEO. "Vireo huttoni stephensi Brewst. Geog. Dist. — 

 Arizona, Western Mexico and Lower California. 



This new race was first described by Mr. William Brewster, from specimens col- 

 lected by Mr. F. Stephens in the Chiricahua and Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. It 

 is stated that he also took its nest and eggs near Fort Bayard, New Mexico, In 1876, 

 but there appears to be no published account of them. The late Maj. Chas. E. Bendire 

 describes a nest of this bird containing three fresh eggs, taken by Lieutenant Benson 

 on June 21, 1887, near Fort Huachuca, Arizona, which are now in the National 

 Museum.t The nest was attache^ to the fork of a small twig of some species of 

 buttonwood, growing in a canon of the Huachuca Mountains, and was well con- 

 cealed. It is very peculiar looking, being outwardly exclusively composed of a 

 yellowish-buff plant down, with similarly colored grass-tops incorporated, giving the 

 nest a uniform light color, not unlike a very fine cup-shaped sponge. It Is lined with 

 the extreme tops of grasses, also of a golden tint, and measures externally two and 

 three-fourth inches in width by two and one-half inches in depth. The inner 

 diameter is two inches by one and three-fourth inches. The three eggs are ovate 

 in shape, pure white in color, with little gloss, sparsely spotted about the larger 

 end, with fine dots of dark umber-brown and brownish-red; sizes .72x.53, .70x.52, 

 .69X.52 inches. 



6336. ANTHONY'S VIBEO. Tireo huttoni ohscurus Anthony. Geog. Dist.— 

 Pacific coast, from Oregon to Southern British Columbia, south in winter to Cali- 

 fornia. 



This Vireo, which inhabits the Pacific coast region, is similar to 7. h. stephensi 

 in coloration. I have nothing pertaining to its nests and eggS which I can consider 

 authentic, but more than likely they do not differ from those of Stephens's Vireo. 



* Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, III, p. 68. 



t Notes on a Collection of Birds' Nests and Eggs from Southern Arizona Territory. 

 By the late Major Charles E. Bendire, U. S. A. Proceedings of the National Museum, 

 1887, DP. 556-557. 



