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CONDOle. Bulletin or the Cooper Ornithological Club. A Be-MONTHLY EXPONENT OF CALIFORNIAN ORNITHOLOGY. Vol. 2 No. 3- Santa Clara, Cal., May-Jnne, 1900. $.oo a Vear. In the Breedin!l I!ome of Clarke's Nutcracker. ( Nn cf r a. ff a colu n/ bianus. ) ACCOUNT OF THE TAKING OF ITs NEST AND EGGS IN UTAH, MARCH, I9OO. Bv H. C. JoHINSOIN, AMERICAiN FORK, UTAH?" [Read befbre the iNorthern Division of the Cooper Oru. Club, May. 5, ]9oo.] EFORE describing the finding of the nests and eggs of this species in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah in March of the present year, it nlay be interesting to review. briefly, the early history of the bird, with such remarks as are pertinent to the little- known nesting habits of the species, Capt. William Clarke. It reads: "On the afternoon of August 22nd, I805, among the woods I observed a new species of woodpecker (?), the face and tail of which are white, wings black, and every other part of the body dark brown and its size was that of a robin." A singularly incorrect description of and the present known sets in collections. Lewis' and Clarke's Expe- dition was responsible for the discovery of three birds new to science; the Louisiana Tanager ( Piran, ga lttdovici- aria), I.ewis's Woodpecker (J/daner16cs lorq//at#s), and Clarke's Crow (A%c.i/3-aga H. C. JOHNSON, the bird and its size! From one specimen, -- the only one brought back by the expedition--Alex. Wilson formally described the spe- cies in his Anterican Ornith- ology III, I8XX, on pfige 2, ancl figures the bird quite correctly in plate XX, Fig. . naming it after Capt. columbianus.) This expedition w.n .c,'n in charge Df the two officers of the United States Amy whose nanles it bore, was sent out by the Government in 18o4-6. It ex- plored from sources Df the Missouri River, across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pa- cific Ocean. Tile first mention ever nlade of tile bird whrse name heads this sketch is fiund in the journal of 'I am indebted to Miss Jean Bell for valmqble uotes concerning the early hi.torv ot Clarke% Crow. as well as the record ol the sets of th]s species previously known to science.--n. C. J. t-*: 'rc,.c- Clarke. The type specimen :,:,s. was deposited in Peale's Mu- seum in Philadelphia, then the fore- most museuln in America. The breeding habits of Clark0's Nut- cracker remained a secret for lnany years, the flint authentic sets being those taken and recorded hy Bendire fronl Camp Harney, Oregon, as folh.ws: April 2, 1876 , one nest with one young bird and tWD chipped eggs, twenty-five feet from the ground in a large pine tree; April 4, 878, same locality, nest

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