OREGON TOWHEE. 
588b. Pipilo maculatus oregonus. 8 inches. 
This family are all ground birds, and are usually found 
scratching among the leaves for their food supply of seeds 
and insects. This is a much darker bird that his eastern 
relative. The females are marked much the same as the 
males, replacing the black with a brown. They build their 
nest on or near the ground, of twigs, grass and with a 
finer lining of grass, and usually it is well concealed in 
bunches of grass or under some brush pile. They lay four 
or five eggs of a pale gray or white, much spotted with 
brown (.95x.75). 
SAN DIEGO TOWHEE. 
588d. Pipilo maculatus megolonyx. 8 inches. 
Darker and with few white markings. Southern California 
(not illustrated). 
CANON TOWHEE. 
591. Pipilo fuscus mesoleucus. 8% inches. 
These birds have more brown, and nest in bushes or trees 
and not so much on the ground. Their eggs are more strongly 
marked. They range from Colorado to Texas and Arizona. 
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