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Mr. R. Owen on the Nesting 
hedges, 7 or 8 feet from the ground, the site chosen being free 
from overhanging branches. 
13. Myiozetetes texensis . San Geronimo, May 5,1860. Male 
and female bird, nest, and several eggs. 
The nest and eggs of this species also are described in ‘The 
Ibis/ vol. i. p. 123, and the egg figured on pi. 5. 
14. Pachyrhamphus aglaias. Choacus, May 15, 1860. 
Pemale bird, nest, and two eggs. 
The nest is composed of tendrils, strips of bark, and grass, 
the interior and exterior being of the same materials, which are 
woven so as to form a hanging nest open at the top, 2 inches 
deep inside, and 2| inches in diameter. 
The egg (Plate II. fig. 4) is white, beautifully marked with 
pencillings of a pinkish red and occasional spots of the same 
colour. These markings are much blended and concentrated at 
the larger end. It measures, axis *95, diam. *6 in. 
These eggs were in an advanced stage of incubation. The 
nest was built between, and hanging from, the forked branch of 
a sapling at the foot of the mountain. The bird was very tame. 
15. Antrostomus -?*. Night Hawk. Mountain of Santa 
Barbara, April 20, 1860. Hen bird with two eggs. 
The eggs are white, and measure, axis 1*05 in., diam. *8. I do 
not quite understand these eggs being white, except by supposing 
them to be accidentally so. In other respects, i. e. in form and 
texture, they agree with the eggs of other species of Caprimulg’uh. 
These eggs, two in number, were found on the ground, at the 
foot of a large pine-tree. There was no nest. 
16. Eumomota superciliaris. “ Torovoz” San Geronimo, 
May 21, 1860. Several eggs. 
The nest is described below. 
The egg is glossy white, and measures, axis 1 in., diam. *8. 
The form of the egg is quite that of a Merops. 
This appears to be the height of the breeding-season with the 
cc Torovoces.” They are in full song, if their croaking note may 
be so termed, and are as noisy and busy now as they are mute 
* r E^ ie species is nearly allied to (perhaps identical with) A. vociferus.— 
P. L. S. 
