Grinnell -19/5 Yosemite, Calif. the ground. It was made of dried branchlets of the blackberry and dried weed stems and well lined with black and white horse train. The inside depth was 3 inches, as was the inside diameter. The nest held four eggs which varied considerably in color, one having a white background finely and evenly flecked with indefinite blotches of tan color, another was also had the white background but the blotches were much larger and darker and were confluent at the larger end. The other two eggs were alike in markings and were also heavily and evenly flecked with small indefinitely-edged flecks of tan and brown that the ground color was entirely obscured. Since nest and contents apparently undisturbed I cannot accuse the gray squirrel of any worse crime than that of causing agitation on the hearts of the parent birds! Willard and Alvin tell me that yesterday they saw a gray squirrel chase a young black-