51 must be quite bright. They are evidently the great- woodpecker "War" referred to, and are the commonest woodpeckers. In the cow pasture we saw many of the small blackbirds. They have a peculiar posture in flight looking like a Quail with wing feathers but down and extralaterals feet. They didn't have the bobbing flight of Red Wigs. While in some tall bush on a hillside I flushed a female Royal Dove from an empty nest four feet up. The male was near by. The nest was extremely frail being nothing more than a few pieces of grass crudely bent together. Near here I found the set of 13 eggs... The bird was more solicous about this nest. I can now see why they are so common - they are a good bird. The nest was impossible to save in any sort of condition due to the thorny character.