they are made of twigs, strips of bark, weeds and coarse 
grasses, lined with fine rootlets. Their three or four eggs 
are laid in April or May; they are light bluish green mark- 
ed like the others with purplish or brownish black. Size 
.95 x .72. 
591.1a. Anthony’s Towhee. Pipilo crissalis senicula. 
Range.— Southern California and south through Lower 
California. 
A very similar bird to the last but 
sightly smaller and lighter below. 
The habits and nesting habits of 
these birds are in every way identi- 
cal with those of the California Tow- 
hee and the eggs cannot be dis- 
tinguished from those of that variety. 
They are fully as abundant in the 
southern parts of California as the Greenish blue 
others are in the northern. 
592. Abert’s Towhee. Pipilo aberti. 
Range. — Arizona and New Mexico north to Colorado 
and Nevada and east to southeastern California. 
This bird is wholly brownish gray both above and below 
shading into reddish brown on the under tail coverts; the 
face is black. They are abundant in the valleys of Arizona 
and New Mexico, but unlike the preceding species, they 
are generally wild and shy. They nest in chaparral thick- 
ets along streams, the nests being constructed similarly to 
those of the California Towhee. and the eggs are not easily 
distinguishable from those of that species, but they are 
usually more sparsely specked and the markings more dis- 
Greenish blue tinct. Size 1.00 x .75. 
592.1. Green-tailed Towhee. Oreospiza clnlorura. 
Range.- — -Western United States, chiefly west 
of the Rockies from Montana and Washington 
south to Mexico; wintering in southwestern 
United States. 
This handsome and entirely different pluniag- 
ed species from any of the preceding would, 
from appearance, be better placed in the group 
with the White-throated Sparrow than its pres- 
ent position. It has a reddish brown crown, 
the remainder of the upper 
parts, wings and tail being 
greenish yellow; the throat 
is white, bordered abruptly 
with gray on the breast and 
sides of head. These birds 
place their nests on the 
ground. The nests are built 
similarly to those of the east- 
ern Towhee, and the eggs, too, are similar, be- 
ing whitish, finely dotted and specked with 
reddish brown, the markings being most numer- 
ous around the larger end. Size .85 x .65. 
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