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utecl to this rare bird, and while I have nothing new to record it is hoped that 
the photographs here presented will help towards an understanding of Mr. Gil- 
man’s article. The region in which I found this bird was the same in which Mr. 
Gilman worked, Cabezon and Whitewater, Rivei’side County, Califoi’nia. This 
is in the extreme northwestern end of the Salton Sea desert. 
Three nests were examined. The first was found on April 20, 1916, by IT. 
Fig. 54. Nest and eggs of Leconte Thrasher. The felt-like lining, 
AS HERE SHOWN, APPEARS TO BE CHARACTERISTIC OF NESTS OF THIS 
SPECIES. 
W. Carriger, with whom I was working at the time. This nest contained three 
small young and one addled egg, which latter was taken as being the first ever 
seen by either of us. This nest was located in the center of a cliolla cactus and 
about two and a half feet above the ground. On May 13, 1916, two nests were 
found. One was located five feet above the ground in a Spanish bayonet or, as 
sometimes called, yucca. The second was in the center of a cliolla cactus bush, 
