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song which they used to sing in Illinois. A nest I found in June was 
placed in a spnice bush, about three feet from the ground, and contained 
four fresh eggs. After getting the first brood off their bills, the White- 
crowns become scarce in the Park but numerous among the stunted bushes 
above timberline, where they raise a second brood; thus making a double 
migration in the breeding season, and keeping their love-song in fashion 
until late in the fall. In September they again become plentiful in the 
Park, and, haunting the roads, linger until October. 
4 6. Chondestes grammica, Bp. Lark Finch.— Common in the Park 
all summer. Though I found no nests, I am confident it breeds here. 
47. Pipilo maculatus arcticus, Coues. Arctic; Towhee. — Found in 
April ; very shy ; probably breeds. 
48. Pipilo chlorurus, Bd. Green-tailed Towhee.— Common from 
April to November. A sweet songster in the breeding season, but always 
very. shy. Going up to a clump of bushes one day in May, a Green-tailed 
Finch fluttered out from the opposite side with wings trailing, feigning 
injury, at the same time uttering a sweet, complaining cry. The nest I 
could not find, though I searched every foot of the thicket. 
49. Sturnella magna neglecta, Allen. Western Meadow Lark. — 
Rare. During the warm days of autumn, a few Larks straggle up from the 
Animas Park, where they are quite common. I can see no cause for their 
migrating the wrong way — 3000 feet up — unless it is a scarcity of food. 
50. Scolecophagus cyanocephaius, Cab. Blue-headed Grackle. 
— In early summer I found Blackbirds rare, but in August and Septem- 
ber they suddenly appeared in swarms. I have no idea where they breed, 
as I could not find a nest. In fall the flocks seem* to have no particular 
place to go, nor even an individual mind. If two or three of a flock fly 
up, clucking as they go, they will be joined by another and another until 
the whole flock takes wing, making a racket like ^jiiscalus pnrpureus. In 
October they disappear. 
51. Corvus corax, Linn. Raven.— Common in fall and early winter. 
52. Picicorvus columbianus, Bp. Clarke’s Crow. — -A not uncom- 
mon resident. Keep high up until October, when they come around camp 
in search of food. They occasionally (?) breed as low down as 6500 feet, 
though I think but rarely, as I have found them most abundant between 
12,000 and 13,000 feet in summer and fall. Its characteristic salute is a 
long, grating “ squa-a-a-aC which sounds like the warning protest of a 
setting hen. 
53. G-ymnocitta cyanocephala. Bp. Blue Crow; PinonJay. — Very 
erratic; found only in flocks. The Pinon Jay ranges fully 6000 feet higher 
than pinons grow in San Juan. How high up they breed is more than I 
can say. I found it in large flocks, in cottonwood groves, at 7000 feet, in 
May ; and again, in flocks equally as large, from 10,000 to 13,000 feet, in 
October. 
54. Pica rustica hudsonica, Ridg. Magpie. — A very rare resident. 
Probably nests near 11,000 feet. 
55. Cyanocitta stelleri macrolopha, Allen. Long-crested Jay. — V ery 
