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May, ?9oo1 THE CONDOR 55 bearings and punctured the side of the stump. Nest building commences the last of March and full sets of eggs may be found by April ?5. A set of five taken April ?6 were slightly incubated and were fifteen feet from the ground in a cavity in a cottonwood tree. By the first of May this pair of birds had ex- cavated another shallow nest and the female laid five more eggs in a tree not ten feet from the one containing the first nest. The birds are devoted to their eggs and may sometimes be caught on the nest. Two or three broods must be reared in a season as fresh eggs may be found as late as June. I had a queer experience with a Western Bluebird (St'alia men:t'cana oc- c/de,/al/s) while examining a nest of this flicker. On April 23 , ?899 while collecting, I noticed a dead cottonwood in the mid{lie of a field and no other trees within 200 feet of it. As I had just taken several sets of various wood- peckers' eggs from similar situations, I thought I wouhl examine this tree. I pounded on the tree with my hatchet, when out flew a flicker from a hole twenty-five feet up. All the bark was stripped off the tree and it was perLeet- ly smooth and shaky as well, but I nmnaged to "shin up," during which operation I partly dislodged a snag which projected from one side of the tree. I chopped open the fiieker's nest but found it empty and as it was al- most dark I decided to start for home, when I saw a pair of bluebirds flying about excitedly, but finally both dis- appeared. Then I thought .they probably had a nest in the tree and began to examine the various cavities but without result. Remembering seeing a hole in the end of the snag I had partially dislodged, I pulled it out of the cavity which held it and started down the tree. When I reached the ground I began to enlarge the entrance to the hole in the snag when the female flew from the hole and I was soon in possession of six eggs. This shows the solicitude of the bluebird for its eggs. The nest was composed entirely of cottonwood fibers. The last on the list of our wood- peckers is only a winter visitant,--the Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sp?.yrapicus tuber.) They arrive about the middle of October and remain with us until March, but are not plentiful at any time, and I have never seen more than three or four in one day. They are very shy and when once shot at will not allow a person to approach close enough to shoot again. Many trees are attacked by these birds, the live oak, cottonwood, sycamore and barberry seeming to be the favorites. The bird also eats ants and insects and some- times indulges in berries. In conclu- sion, we probably have as large a list of resident woodpeckers as any similar region in California, as conditions are favorable for the woodpecker tribe. Nestino of the Mexican Wild Turkey in the I!uachuca Mts., Ariz. ( A?clea,g'ris ,gallopa vo.) BY O. V[ r. HO?rARD? FT. HUACHUCA, ARIZ. {Read betbre the Southern Division o! the Cooper Orn. Club, Jan. 3?, i0oo.] ARLY in the spring of the present 5, ear while walking down the wagon road in one of the main canongof the Huachuca Mountains I was very much surprised as I glanced at the opposite hill-side to see a fine large Wild Turkey ?valking around, feeding uuder some oak trees. He (to all appearances a gobbler) was fully as large, if not larger, than any domestic bird I had ever seen. Either he was not aware of my presence or else my presence did not disturb him, for he was in plain sight and not more than fifty yards distant. I watched the bird for two or three