. The Wilson bulletin . he sixth egg neverhatched. It was removed sometime during July 2. Beginning the morning of July 5, 42 hours were spent inthe blind and about one-half as much time was spent underthe trees near by watching the feeding habits of the time was spent in the blind each day, with the excep-tion of the tenth, when we were called back to town. Of the42 hours 12 were on July 7, when we watched from 5:00a. m. until 7 p. m. The remaining time was scattered throughthe other six days. No time was spent in the blind on July13, as some one very considerately stole our blin
. The Wilson bulletin . he sixth egg neverhatched. It was removed sometime during July 2. Beginning the morning of July 5, 42 hours were spent inthe blind and about one-half as much time was spent underthe trees near by watching the feeding habits of the time was spent in the blind each day, with the excep-tion of the tenth, when we were called back to town. Of the42 hours 12 were on July 7, when we watched from 5:00a. m. until 7 p. m. The remaining time was scattered throughthe other six days. No time was spent in the blind on July13, as some one very considerately stole our blind during theprevious night and the birds left the nest before we could getanother one ready. We watched for about two hours froma distance of from thirty to forty feet with glasses, but foundit very unsatisfactory. The parent birds looked much alike, but we had one excel-lent field mark. The male (presumably) had every tailfeather perfect, while in that of the female the feathers were The Home of the Great Crest 423 o a. 424 The Wilson Bulletin—No. 93 broken and worn and had many of the barbs missing alto-gether. We supposed this to be due to the rubbing againstthe nest walls during incubation. The condition of the twotails is well shown in the photographs, Fig. 2 being of themale and Fig 3 of the female. Methods of Hunting. Recalling their usual noisy manners, I rather expectedthem to make more noise about the nest than some of theother birds studied. On the contrary, they proved to be theleast noisy of any of the passerine birds yet studied. In hunting they spent a large percent of their time on cer-tain low hanging branches in the neighboring trees. Themale preferred one in a large honey locust, where he sat wellin toward the trunk. The female chose similar branches inan ash and two box elders. One of the parents was invar-iably on one of these perches, from which he or she couldwatch the nest. Only occasionally did one of them select aconspicuous perch. When they did so i
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