The shy, masked, ABERT TOWHEE is nonmigratory and confined to restricted local areas of its range. The favorite haunts are river bottoms and vallies where its high pitched notes are heard much more often than the birds are seen, for they prefer dense thickets and seldom venture into open country.
NEST: loosely constructed of small twigs, stalks, grass, and lined with bark strips and hair.
EGGS: 2 to 4; pale blue sparingly spotted with sepia and black.
Southeastern California, southern Nevada and southwestern Utah to southern New Mexico and Arizona.
A shrubby tree distributed on the desert areas of southern California.