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 174 Till*, CONDOR VOL. X acteristic species up to at least 7000 feet, but 'much more common between 5000 and 6000 feet. Frequents open scrub-oak country in well watered localities and breeds late in June and in July, usually selecting a scrub-oak in dense growth as a nesting site. Piranga lud0viciana. Louisiana Tanager. Summer resident, not uncommon. Typically a bird of the higher altitudes, where it frequents the heavy. spruce timber during the breeding season. Occasionally seen as low as 6500 feet, in pinyon timber during June and July but not by any means common. Much more in evi- dence in the lower portions of the County during the fall migration, when they are quite common. During the return movement in spring they are not so con- spicuous. Piranga er7thr0melas. Scarlet Tanager. Mr. Sullivan writes, "Only one seen; date June 4, 1904. The red and black markings were too plain to admit of NEST AND EGGS OF GREEN-TAILED TOWHEI IN SERI'ICE-BERRY BUSH doubt. I hardly think they breed." This record while an exceedingly strange one is well supported by Prof. Cooke's record of 2 birds taken at New Castle dur- ing the spring of 1892, which is only about 70 miles up the river from Grand Junction. Pr0gne subis. Purple Martin. Sramher resident, occurrence doubtful. Prof. Cooke says, "As common in Utah as in the east and not uncommon in the extreme western part of Colorado." And again, Miss Myra Eggleston writes that the Purple Martins are common at Grand Junction, but do not breed in town, prefer- ring the banks of the river not far distant." Mr. Sullivan takes issue with this latter statement and says that extensive inqairy among the older residents of Grand Junction failed to reveal a single one who had ever seen this bird there, and that in his own observations covering about three years he had only seen it once. He closes a lengthy and interesting discussion of the subject by saying, "Therefore on