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Goss on Maximilian' s Jay and Clarke $ Crow. 
[January 
lowered head and half-extended wings, utter their peculiar quer- 
ulous cry. One nest contained five eggs, six contained four each, 
and two three each ; both sets of three were partly incubated. 
Two nests were taken May 5, five on the 10th, and two on the 
nth, 1879. The eggs are quite pointed at the small end. The 
ground color is bluish white, splashed all over with small spots of 
dark brown, thickest at the large end. Thirteen eggs measure 
respectively: 1 . 19 X -88 ; 1.21 X *93 ; 1.22 X -92; 1.25 X .91 ; 
1. 1 7 X- 87 ; 1. 1 8 X- 84 ; 1.17X.85 ; 1.20X.82 ; 1.17X.80 ; average, 
1.19X.87. 
My friend, Mr. H. B. Bailey, has kindly sent me notes of a 
set of four, taken for him in New Mexico, June 5, 1882. He 
says: “My nest was in a pinon tree, ten feet from the ground. 
The inside is composed wholly of grayish shreds of some vine 
similar to grape-vine. The eggs are almost fac-similes of yours, 
but have a slightly lighter ground color. [His reference is to a 
set received from me.] They were hard sat on.” His eggs 
measure 1.20X. 86; 1.19X.87; 1.25X 93; 1.15X.87; average, 
1 .20X -88. 
The nest is easily seen, and I am surprised that so few have 
been found. ' The bird is a restless wanderer, choosing the most 
unfrequented places. It often changes its haunts, and may be 
plenty one year where it is scarcely found in another. Probably 
the food supply has something to do with its movements. It is 1 
gregarious, and partly so even in the breeding season. It is 
locally, and very appropriately, called the Pinon Bird,” for its 
home is in the pinon pines, and it is rarely seen far from them. 
Clarke’s Crow is a common resident of the region described, 
but has a higher range than Maximilian’s Jay. I found it most 
abundant in the mountain valleys, above the foot hills. In that 
dry climate the trees on the sunny exposure of the valleys are 
dwarfed, scattering, and interspersed with thick bunches of 
bushes, while the opposite side, looking northward, is covered 
with a heavy growth of timber. It was in and around such tim- 
ber that I found these birds, and there I looked diligently for 
their nests. Many times they showed great concern and watched 
me closely, peering down and scolding from the thick foliage 
overhead. I thought their nest must be near, and searched every- 
where in the neighborhood, even climbing to the tops of high 
trees ; but I have no doubt now that their nests were across the 
