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220 THE CONDOR Vol. XVIII uted 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, Riverside County, California. 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 H. Fig. 54. NEST AND EGOS OF LECO?E THRASHER. THE FELT-LIKE LININC, AS HERE SHOWN, APPEARS TO BE CI-I.a?ACTERISTIC 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 Ks. This nest was located in the center of a cholla cactus and about two and a half feet above the groun.d. On May 13, 1916, two nests were found. One was located five feet above the ground in a Spanish bayonet or, as sometimes ca]led, yucca. The second was in the center of a cholla cactus bush,