. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . doubt of its breeding there, before the fact wasplaced beyond question by the actual discovery of thenest. Such was particularly the case in Maine. ThusMessrs. Maynard and Brewster, writing of obser-vations made in1871, remark asfollows : Quitecommon at Um-bagog in breeds; andjudging from thecondition of fe-male specimenstaken, lays itseggs about June1st. Althoughwe found severalpairs in the thickhemlock woods,that evidently had nests in the immediate vicinity, yetwe were unable to discover them. It probably buildsin
. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . doubt of its breeding there, before the fact wasplaced beyond question by the actual discovery of thenest. Such was particularly the case in Maine. ThusMessrs. Maynard and Brewster, writing of obser-vations made in1871, remark asfollows : Quitecommon at Um-bagog in breeds; andjudging from thecondition of fe-male specimenstaken, lays itseggs about June1st. Althoughwe found severalpairs in the thickhemlock woods,that evidently had nests in the immediate vicinity, yetwe were unable to discover them. It probably buildsin the long hanging moss which grows so abundant onthe trees in these northern forests. Given as perhapsbreeding rarely at Norway (S. I. Smith) (Pr. , xiv, Oct., 1871, pub. 1872). Mr. Allens latestlist of Massachusetts birds mves the Golden-crest asperhaps breeding in portions of Berkshire County, asit has also been reported by T. M. Trippe (Am. Nat.,vi, p. 47) to do in the Catskills (Bull. Essex Inst., x,1878, p. 611). The credit of actually discovering the. Fig. 15. — Golden-crested Kinglet. R. SATRAPA : GOLDEN-CRESTED KINGLET. 75 nest in New England belongs to Mr. H. D. Minot,who took one on the i6th of July, 1876, in the WhiteMountains of New Hampshire, in a forest of ever-greens and birches. Having several times observedthe birds there, he writes, I at last detected them inthe act of conveying food to their young, and soontracked them to their nest. This hungc four feet abovethe ground, from a spreading hemlock-bough, to thetwigs of which it was firmly fastened. It was globu-lar, with an entrance at the upper part, and was com-posed of hanging moss, ornamented with bits of deadleaves, and lined chiefly with feathers. It containedsix young birds. (B. N. E., 1877, p. 56.) [To pursue the interesting subject of the breedingof this bird, all items relating to which are still newsto most persons: Mr. Harold Herrick has recentlystated, in his list of the birds of Grand Me
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