The large, plainly colored Towhees are among the most friendly and familiar birds of the west. They frequent small towns and isolated ranches where they make themselves thoroly at home. They have no fear of man and are just as apt to build their nests in a backyard bush as on the sides of lonely canons. In the gloomy ravines their commingled songs ring out with singular sweetness.
NEST: a bulky, loosely-built structure of coarse grass, lined with fine rootlets and hair.
EGGS: 3; bluish-white, speckled and scrawled with brown, black and lavender; located in bushes near ground.
Arid districts of Arizona, southern and eastern New Mexico, eastern Colorado and western Texas.
Similar to Canon Towhee.
Southern California from about latitude 30, south thru Lower California.
A tree, growing to 30 feet high, distributed on islands of the Santa Barbara group, California.