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LL Wolf
1963
Toxostoma curvirostre
June 24 DeAnza Benson Hwy. Wilmot Rd. Tucson Pima Co., Arizona
Yesterday I picked up a fully-feathered + full grown young of the year dead on the highway north of Tucson. Today I found nest with 2 eggs. Nest in outer "banchas" of one arm of a 5-foot cholla.
Nest was 3.5 ± feet high. Composed of: outer, catclaw twigs; inner - fine grasses etc. for lining.
Adult flushed from nest when I was 50 ± feet away + not approaching the nest in my direction of walk.
June 25 = same local
Took eggs out of nest - 1 broke on way to town.
John saw the birds & called them Curve-bills.
Pat Gould says our description of the nest matches a curve-bill, but the egg is like the T. bendirei eggs in the Ariz. collection!!