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 82 THE CONDOR VOL. iX Their favorite haunt is a 'gulch on an open hillside, which is heavily covered with rub-oak, service-berry and pinyon, and here the>, are found in numbers, flitting thru the underbrush and keeping out of sight as much as possible, but continually uttering the coarse, grating cry characteristic of so many of this family. When undisturbed the>, will casionMly mount a high feuce post or the top- most branch of a small pinyon tree iu plain sight of the surrounding ground, but when disturb they quickly disappear and trust largely to the cover of the under- brash for protection. As the breeding sean approach they are much quieter and very retiring in their habits, and when incubation begins only a careful search will satisfy the oh- NEST AND EGGS OF TH WDHOUS JAY: FROM PHOTO TAKEN IN MESA COUNTV, COLORADO, JUNE 6, i 3 server that there is a oodhouse jay anywhere in the country, except for an - casional male bird who fli aimlessly about, in a mamer thoroly exasperating to the observer who wonders where the nt is. In the location and concealment of the nts they are evidently adepL% as in five years' observations I found but two nts, one of which was uncupil; and even after the leaves have dropped in the fall they are rarely seeu, a fact which can only be accounted for by the birds' rare art of concealment, for the nests are far too strongly built to weather away during the period between their cupancy and the falling leaves, and e birds are so abundant in all suible laliti that nts must be more or less common.