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Mar.,1915 see how long incubating ?vould take, but at about the time the young ?vere due one egg disappeared, ?vhile the other had a hole in it and proved infertile. This pair of birds has frequented the yard for t?vo years, and has become quite friendly, coming to a bird table for food and eating the watermelon I put out in the shade. They brought the three young ones to the house and gave them watermelon until they learned to feed themselves. l?hainopepla nitens. Phainopepla. A pai r had a nest in a mesquite near the ?vest line of the tract, ?vhere they raised t?vo young. They nest most fre- quently in the old gro?vth of mesquites that have much mistletoe grooving in them. Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides. 'White-rumped-Shrike. A pair raised five young in a squaw-bush along one of the fences. In a mesquite tree not far away I found the hind legs of a young rabbit.hung over a thorny branch, but the Shrikes may not have been responsible for this! Mimus polyglottos leucopterus. Western Mockingbird. A pair raised a brood in the mesquite thicket but I did not find the nest till the young birds had flown. The old ones brought them up around the house for refreshments later, and then probably went to work on a second set, as I found a nest with two eggs July 7 not far from the first one. As it happened, however, this was about fifty yards outside the lines so cannot be counted. Toxostoma bendirei. Bendire Thrasher. Eight nests were found with three eggs each. Seven were in mesquites and one in a Lycium, the average height from the ground being eight feet. One pair built a-nest in a mesquite at the bottom of the date grove and hatched three young, these leaving the nest about the first of May. The ]Sth of May the female began fighting the Kingbird for the nesting site as I have al. ready related. After the Kingbirds drove her away she went to her old nest in the mesquite and raised three more young in it, the young leaving the nest July 6. At this date of writing she has another nest in the same tree a few feet from the twice used one, and is incubating three more eggs. She is surely some "mother in Israel". As the other five nests were not close together, possibly none of thmn were "repeat- ers" There is one exception that may have been a second set as it was found so ]ate, July ]], though not near any other found before. The Bendire Thrasher is one bird that from a]] indications takes kindly to settlement. These birds nest near houses, on which they perch to sing, come into the yards, and seem fearless if not molested. If their natural shelter is cleared up they take kindly to artificial or planted growth and I believe will persist in the face of civilization. All this, of course, provided that they receive some measure of protection and encouragement. Toxostoma crissale. Crissa] Thrasher. Only three nests found, and one of those probably a second set. All were in mesquites at an average height of four feet. This Thrasher is a bird of the underbrush and thickets, and appar- ently does not take kindly to clearing and farming operations. Heleodytes brunneicapillus couesi. Cactus Wren. February ]5 was the date when the first nest, with four eggs, was found. This was in a brush shed alongside of the school house, used as an outside class room. The rafters were double, about four inches apart, and I had inserted short boards making a horizontal space about ten inches deep and six feet from the ground. Four roosting nests had been built last fail by the pair of wrens, and February ]5 a new nest contained eggs. About the last of April the same pair built a nest On