Grinnell -1915 Yosemite, Calif. it and the roof was just six inches high. Both the beam and the ceiling of the porch are painted white. This afternoon revisited nests. The blackbird's eggs are still intact. The young grosbeaks are growing fast. Three of the sparred towhees are out of the egg, and the fourth egg is chipped. Just beyond the towhee's nest, three feet up in the crotch of a thimbleberry bush, and very well shaded I found a newly completed nest, still empty. Down near the stream edge and about seven feet up in a willow thicket we found the nest of a Russet backed Thrush with four nearly full-grown young. The ground about the base of the thicket is now dry, but two weeks ago, when I passed that way the water stood a foot deep around it. About seven feet up in