Nov., 1916 
MEETING SPRING HALF WAY 
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was open prairie from horizon to horizon and the blooming white floor and 
the uplifted song of the Meadowlark had put us in tune, we had a character- 
istic prairie cloud effect. We. were encircled at first by low white cloud flecks 
in the blue and then as they grew and grew, by encompassing white clouds 
that seemed to travel with us, till, after crossing a gulch we came up on the 
other side, seemingly right up into the clouds when, as forest trees rise in a 
fog, the white host loomed up, white challenging spirits before our path. 
Washington, D. C., April 6, 1916. 
NESTING OF THE LECONTE THRASHER 
By J. R. PEMBERTON 
WITH TWO PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR 
I N THE CONDOR (Yol. vi, 1904, pp. 95-98) M. French Gilman has given us 
a rarely good and complete account of the nesting habits of the Leconte 
Thrasher ( Toxostoma lecontei). It was with much pleasure that I was able 
during the spring of 1916 to observe the many interesting characteristics attrib- 
Fig. 53. Nest of Leconte Thrasher. Half of 
the Choi.la Cactus has been torn away to 
EXPOSE THE STRUCTURE. 
