. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . sces and they set ofT homeward, the male usually inthe lead. It looks as tho tracing would be an easy matter, but the birds stopcircumspectly at every tree chntip en route, and they are all too easily lost tosight long before the home tree is reached. Xests may be found at any height from the le\el of the eyes to fifty feet(higher, no doubt, if ones eye-sight avails i but always on the under side of afir limb, and usually where the foliage is nattirally tieiise. The nest ball
. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . sces and they set ofT homeward, the male usually inthe lead. It looks as tho tracing would be an easy matter, but the birds stopcircumspectly at every tree chntip en route, and they are all too easily lost tosight long before the home tree is reached. Xests may be found at any height from the le\el of the eyes to fifty feet(higher, no doubt, if ones eye-sight avails i but always on the under side of afir limb, and usually where the foliage is nattirally tieiise. The nest ball is a THE WESTERN GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. 265 wiinilcTliilK ci iiiipacU-d atfair of moss, both green and giay. iniersperscd withlixiTWiirls, dried grasses, soft weed fibers, and cow-hair. Ihe deep depressionof llie nest ciip scarcely mars tlie sjjhericity of the wliole. for tlie edges arebroiighl well in: so mnch so. in fact, that a containing l)ranch overloaded withfoliage npon one side, once tipped half wa\- oxer withoui spilling the egg?.The deep ca\il\- is hea\il\- lined wilh cow-hair and ahnnilanl feathers of. Taken near Taconia- NEST OF w i;k.\ THIS IS Till; MOST Til.* );.\ CKowwED in i-ir lAV niv SI-EN OF NEST OR CONTENTS FROM ANY ANCLE. grouse or domestic fowl. These feathers are jilaced with their soft ends pro-truding, and they curl user the entrance in such fashion 4s almost ov quite iuconceal the eggs. One would like to particularize at great length, for nofervors of description can overstate the beauties of this Kinglet palace. Eggs vary in number from five to nine, seven and eight being the rule. Ionce took a nest with eleven—one too many at the least, for it had to rest ontop of the others. They are not much larger than Hummingbirds and arequite as fragile. Mr. Bowles consumed twenty minutes in removing the con-tents of the big nest to the collecting box ivithotit a break. The eggs vary in 2^,6 THE W ESTKRN (.()LDRN-CR()\VXED^KIN(iUE
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