Grinnell -19/5 Yosemite, Calif. acutely upward and are about the size of a lead pencil. The greatest outside depth of the nest is six inches, inside depth two and one half inches; outside circumference of nest at top, fourteen inches; width of walls at top about three - fourths of an inch. Nest material is dry willow bark, grass leaves and stems, a few pine needles, leaf skeletons, and weed stems. The shreds of dry willow bark predominate. There is no moss or horsehair about the nest. The lining is of fine stems and roots loosely put in. Just within this inner lining is a layer dried sandy mud, as firm as the cement was mixed with it. The new nest in the thimbleberry thicket con- tains two eggs, somewhat larger than a Chipping Sparrow. The ground color is creamy white with squarish flecks