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?3 o THE CONDOR ] Vol. II Nstino 0l the Dually P00r-will ( Plzal?noptilus nuttalli calif ornic?s) I have been requested by one of our enthusiastic and experienced ornitholo- gists, Mr. M. L. Wicks, to relate the ex- periences attending the taking of a set of Dusky Poor-will's eggs by myself in the season just closed. The find was tensifted at one end, also showing at this end very faint shell markings of small brown spots. The eggs measure about ?.o5x.8o inches in size and are elliptical in form. The bird was flushed on the north side of a foothill near Eagle Rock Val- ley in this county, and flew across a gulch close by, alighting on the bank of Plzolo b_r .1 L. lZYrks, Jr. ?*EST AND [?(;GS OF THE I)USK POOR-WILL. made on June ?4, ?9 oo, and notwith- standing the fact of their being taken so late in the season, the eggs, two in number, showed only slight traces of in- cubation. Coues' Key gives the color of these eggs as "white." A better and more accurate description would be a deli- cately-faint "creamy white," slightly in- its opposite side. I was able to ap- proach to within about thirty feet of the point where she was sitting and studied her at my leisure while in this position. I then flushed her a second time and she flew back toward her nest, passing slightly in front of and about twenty feet above my head, giving me a perfect opportun-