/33 in the open woods. The nest looks superficially like a rat nest but contains a well formed basket of heavy sticks closed over which in turn hold the nest proper. The whole affair is draped with various irregular masses of bush, and thorns much as it is a rat's nest. The sticks are immensely large and in this nest all of the same size and find the same thorny bush. It seems almost incredible that this bird could move some of the sticks present. The bird was flushed from the vicinity. A second nest of even larger size and more irregular material was found higher up in an open tree near a tangle of brush. The sticks were also very thorny. The entrance and twigsage from the bottom of the nest by the longest dimension, to a perfectly round cavity. Both birds were on the nest or I came up. They made some protest in soft whistling notes. Evidently they are getting ready for their fall fertility.