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Ja?. ?9o3 [ THE CONDOR none of our song-birds is the song so long sustained as with this species lasting as it does for several minutes, sometimes without a break. But if the beauty of its song is known to but few, still fewer can claim an intimate knowledge of its nesting habits. During the past summer it was my good fortune to discover a nest under cir- cumstances favorable for securing a photograph of a perfectly typical nesting site and nest, which are herewith offered to the readers of TI?E Co?I)OR. The set of four eggs together with the nest has found a permanent home in the collection of Mr. J. W. Preston of Baxter, Iowa. PHOTO IIy A. W. ANTHONY. The discovery was made on July 23, on Eagle Creek, in the Powder River Mts. of eastern Oregon. The nest was built in a ditch bank about six feet above the water and less than half that distance from the top of the bank. The ditch, which has been cut to furnish water to the placer mines, was, at this point, some distance up the mountain si.te in the scattered fir forest. The formation, as can be seen in the illustration was firm gravel. A large rock had become loosened and fallen from its matrix. In the cavity thus formed the nest was placed, and with the long loose