H.W. Grinnell-1925 Mineral, 4800 ft. July 15 45. otherwise the nest was empty. Stuart climbed to the robin's nest in the alder. There were only two eggs still, and no parent was about. Next we visited the site of the laguli bunting's nest and found it empty, but the four young, and both parents were seen in a nearby thicket. The nest rim proved, by actual measurement, to be just twenty-five inches above the ground! As I stooped to measure the laguli's nest the chicken flushed a mountain quail from a nearby willow clump. It flew about thirty feet up the hillside and perched on the ditch bank, where it remained, motionless except for noddings of the head, as long as we were in the vicinity. However, it kept up a continuous series of notes, some directed to us, evidently, and some to the brood of chicks which we heard scrambling to safety. Knolly saw two of them and reports that "they were quite small with