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 202 .I-H CONDOR Vol. XX caught and permitted themselves to be handled at will, but always resented it. The one with the injured wing soon became' the tamest, eating readily from my hand. "The principal food given them was meat, cooked or uncooked, bread, table scraps, apples and bananas. Their appetites were prodigious, and on one occasion the three ate both breasts of a teal duck, a large slice of bread over one-half inch thick, and half of an apple in one. day. It was all eaten, for they Fig. 39. WOODS NEAR ALMA, COLORADO; FEB- BUABY, 1917. THE ItOME OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN JAY. soon became weaned of their natural habit of hiding food. "The most remarkable trait noticed, was their com- plete avoidance of each oth- er, absolutely no attention being paid by any one to any of the others, not even when ! would deliberately feed the choice morsels to one bird. Early this spring I fitted up a thick canopy of yellow pine over the founda- tion for a nest, hoping the power of suggestion would cause them to mate, but this attempt was a total failure. The birds continued to ig- nore each other and the only use made of my attempt at a nest was to fill it with bread crusts and other refuse. It is of course possible that all three birds were of the same sex. ' ' I have just today (June 15) learned that since Mr. Lincoln's departure for U. S. service, about a month ago, two of the three birds have died, and the third was turned loose. None was sent to the Museum and their sex is now undeterminable. In March of this year, I received word that a par- ty in the Cripple Creek district had located a "camp robber's" nest that contained three eggs. The next morning (March 14) going about a hundred miles by train and ten by wagon and afoot, I found my man, who showed me the bird and the "camp robber's" nest and eggs at the altitude of 9,300 feet; but the last mentioned proved to be those of the Clarke Nutcracker---also locally termed "camp rob- ber"--and not the Rocky Mountain Jay, as I had hoped. Very welcome, but