July, 1902. 
VHH CONDOR 
crows. One pair of California jays 
seemed to have located every nest that 
was being built in a gulch where they 
were building their own nest, but as 
this included a hen-house, and they 
made the rounds every morning to col- 
lect rents, the female was finalh' caught 
by a miner’s wife and the male sudden- 
13" fell dead after inspecting a black- 
throated gray’s nest, which had just 
been completed and would not have 
the nest while it is being examined. It 
was six feet up in a manzanita bush in 
a patch of bushes of the same variety 
about three acres in extent. May 14, 
2 p. m., three eggs but no birds in sight 
but eggs were warm, as is usual when 
the nights are very cold with all birds 
that 1 have noticed. May 15,6:45 a. m., 
four eggs and female setting. This 
nest was near the house .so the tran.sit 
telescope was brought to bear on it 
PHOTO BY C. W, BOWLES 
NEST ANP- EGGS OF S LA C K -TH RO ATE D GRAY WARBLER 
been found if he had not gone to it. 
A nest was found May ii, 1901 at 10 
a. m. by following up the violent scold- 
ing of the male. It was about three- 
fourths finished, having no lining and 
the frame work hardly finished. At 
4:30 p. m., it was finished but the birds 
had disappeared. When first found the 
birds were very tame making no com- 
plaints, and staying within six feet of 
about fifty teet away and the birds 
watched as often as possible till May 
20. The general polic}" of this bird and 
all others noticed, was to disappear 
completely and silentl3’ when anything 
of any kind came in sight, until after 
they became more or less accustomed 
to my visits, so that finding the nest by 
flushing the bird would be almost im- 
po.ssible, as they were rarely seen leav . 
