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 Nov., 1916 MEETING SPRING HALF WAY 219 was open prairie from horizon to horizon and the blooming white floor and the uplifted song of the Meadowlark had put us in tune, we had a character- istic prairie cloud effect. We were encircled at first by low white cloud flecks in the blue and then as they grew and grew, by encompassing white clouds that seemed to travel with us, till, after crossing a gulch we came up on the other side, seemingly right up into the clouds when, as forest trees rise in a fog, the white host loomed up, white challenging spirits before our path. Washington, D.C., April 6, 1916. NESTING OF THE LECONTE THRASHER By J. R. PEMBERTON WITH T%VO PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR N THE CONDOR (Vol. v[, 1904, pp. 95-98) M. French Gilman has given us a rarely good and complete account of the nesting habits of the Lecente Thrasher (Toxostoma lecontei). It was with much pleasure that I was able during the spring of 1916 to observe the many interesting characteristics artrib- Fig. 53. NEST OF LECOIqTE THRASHER. HALF OF THE CHOLLA CACTUS HAS BEEN TORN AWAY TO EXPOSE THE STRUCTURE.