Pipilo fuscus Apr 30. 1 mi NW Ft Davis, 5000 ft., Jeff Davis Co., Texas N-facing slope of Limpia Canyon - slope grass-covered and dotted or completely covered with bonedera. Scattered trees were live oak, gray oak, Emory oak, Spanish oak, juniper. Catclaw scattered. Spotted Towhee present but less abundant than Brown Towhee. I took one silent Brown Towhee (# 617) foraging among rocks. I heard a note which I transcribed as whim or welp, plaintive in quality and similar to a call note of the Song Sparrow. (I have not heard such a note from coastal P. fuscus) As I was listening for finches in the tall cottonwoods I watched a pair of Brown Towhees about 9:00 a.m. One carried several dried grass stems perhaps 4 or 5 in. long; the other merely accompanied the first. I watched their route and noted the grass-carrying individual fly to a notch then disappear behind a trunk. I walked around this tree and flushed the bird; it was building a nearly completed nest seated in vertical splinters left when a main trunk of a cottonwood had broken off. These splinters were a foot or more in length and afforded anchoring for the nest. The nest was shaded and sheltered by a nearly trunk.