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 198 THE CONDOR VOL: XII I made several attempts to take her pictire by approaching slowly and setting up the camera in front of me. I once got so far as to see her image on the ground glass, but she left immediately afterward as I was removing the slide from the pack-adapter. I then tried setting up the camera near the nest and leaving until she should return, but tho she returned soon, the presence of the cronera made her nervous and she would leave long before I reacht it. I finally gave it up and ob- tained only a picture of the nest and eggs. About a hundred feet from this nest I fiusht a Lincoln Sparrow OVJelospiza li, colni) from its nest, situated at the base of a clump of willo and containing three eggs. At our next camp, about six miles south of Pipestone Basin, I found two more nests of this bird, one with four and one with five eggs. The nests are much like those of the Song Sparrow but a little smaller, and constructed almost entirely of grass with little or no hair in the lining. The way in which this bird flushes from her nest is very distinctive and quite unlike any other sparrow with which I am acquainted. She slips quietly from her nest and runs off thru the grass without a note or  flut- Fig. 66. NEST AND EGGS OF LINCOLN SPARROI3Z ter of any sort,her movements more like those of a mouse than a bird. In fact two of the three birds I flusht I sup- posed at first were mice, and had I not lookt at them a second time would have gone away without seeing their nests. Up to the time the young birds left the nest I never heard an alarm note of any sort from the Lincoln Spar- rows,but after that time,which took place about June 25, one could not enter the willow thickets without being scolded from one end to the other by these birds. We had a litter of young coyotes in camp, and one Sunday they broke loose from their pen and led us quite a chase'into a near-by willow swamp. before they were finally captured. As soon as they entered the swamp the Lincoln Sparrows, evidently recognizing a natural enemy, started scolding in a manner that I have seldom heard equalled in any bird. While helping to corner one of the coyotes, I notist a young Lincoln Sparrow running ahed of me thru the grass and soon captured it. In general appearance and in the manner in which it ran thru the grass this bird resembled, until actually caught, a newly hatcht game-bird rather than a young sparrow. It was unable to fly, but was very active at running and hiding in the tall grass. I took it to camp and posed it on the end of a tent peg for its picture, after which I releast it again in the swamp. About fifty feet away from the nest of the Pileolated Warbler, and close to the edge of the 411ov thicket, a pair of Pink-sided Juncos (J, nco mear, si) appeared, scolded me, flew about my hed and finally followed me out of the swamp where I had searcht in vain for nest or young. Later I found another spot where a pair of