NEST: A compact three-inch cup composed of hair, bark and vegetable fibre with oak bud scales and catkins interwoven, located fifty feet or more above ground on limb of pine or fir.

EGGS: Three or four, creamy, specked with light brown and chestnut most heavily at larger end.

Southwestern North America in mountains of southern Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.

A tree up to 40 feet in height, distributed on mountainsides of California, from Mendocino County to the valley of San Luis Rey River. Largest in the northern part of its range, dwindling to a low shrub southward.