57 Cowpasture I saw several of the before-mentioned blackbirds perched on a cow. The birds would drop down and hang on the clover and tuffs and seemed to be picking off something. The cows were quite submissive. This has been the only chance I could have had to shoot any of these birds, but I did not take it. Further out in the field we flushed four or five Caracaras - all of juvenile plumage and brought one of them down. We explored on for some distance over the hill to a large stream course coming down from the mountains. Near the brink we located some. They were hawks, bute could not get them. We found a nest of one of the copper greenbacked birds with levery bill. It was a small quail-like nest and contained young. During the day I have gound several robins' nests.