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 152 TH] CONDOR Vol. XV clothe the summit of the Palomar Mopntains, near the northern boundary of San Diego County and about eighty miles from the coast, a Band-tailed Pigeon was flushed from a tree directly over the main road. On examination it was seen to haYe flown from the nest, and the single egg was plainly visible through the frail structure. 'The nest was saddled on a small fork of a horizontal limb of a black oak, thirty feet from the ground. The bird did not fly directly awayl but hesitated a moment over a near by tree, and then, as if by a sudden change of mind, made off like a bullet and was seen no more, although I remained there for some'time. The egg was taken, but on trying to remove the nest it was reduced to a mere handful of twigs, being composed of not more than sixteen Or eighteen sticks in all. July 3, I9 I, found me at Wynola, four miles east of Julian in the Cuyamaca Range. Some boys there told me that for the past two veeks a bunch of about one hundred Pigeons had been feeding on green manzanita berries in a near By thicket, and I was much pleased when they offered to' take me to the place. It proved to be about one and one I!alf miles north of their ranch, due south of Vol- can Mountain, and was the only thicket thereabout having a large crop of berries. In the morning the birds would begin to arrive a little after sunrise, leaving be- tween eight and nine o'clock; in the evening they returned about four and stayed until dark. They seemed always to come from, and return to, the same place, at the top of Volcan Mountain among the pine trees. The Pigeons s/en were apparently always the same bunch,'as one bird noted with a, few secondaries missing on the left wing was seen on three out of four occasions when the flock was encountered. It was interesting to watch them try- ing to alight on the clusters of berries, far too weak to support them, making many futile attempts, and finally succeeding in reaching the berries only by settling on a stronger perch and then walking out to the cluster. But how they did gorge and stuff when they finally got at them! On two occasions birds alighted very near me, close enough to be heard and seen eating. Their table manners were extremely poor, reminding one very much of a chicken eating corn, accompanied by gulping noises when swallowing a berry. These ranged from the size of an average pea to that of a large hazel nut. A few days later the boys brought me a fractured egg which they had taken from a Pigeon shot by them that evening. The shell, though not.very thick, was rough to the touch, and the egg would probably have been laid the next morning. July 6 found me camping near the foot of North Peak in the Cuyamaca Mountains, at a place called Talley's Ranch, and early on the morning of the 7th I was travelling via mule back to the summit. About two-thirds of the way
 * up is located a small saw-mill, the owner living near by. I was talking to one or

his children when my attention' was called to a pair of captive 'Pigeons which proved to be the Band-tailed. On questioning the lad I learned that they had been taken about a week or ten days before, farther up the mountain, from a nest in an oak tree. One bird was much larger than the other, having gained the juvenal plumage, while the smaller one was still rather downy about the neck and head. Both did justice to any food stuffs offered them, and ate freely even of food offered by strangers, swallowing whole grains of corn and large pieces of bread. I' made my way to the summit but was unsuccessful in locating any more Pigeons, nor could I hear one coo, although I listened assiduously. Being much interested in the captive young ones I returned three days later with hopes of