. Bird lore . species, as that is themost common one in this locality, but asonly the female was seen I cannot be posi-tive, for the females ofthe Broad-tailed andRufous-backed Hum-mers are too much aliketo be told apart unlessone has the specimensin hand. This nest wasbuilt, as the photographshows, on an electriclight fixture on the porchof a residence in Colo-rado Springs. The lightis directly in front of the front door of thehouse, and so close to it that the screen door, which swings out, comes within a few inches of the lamp when opened. It was July i8 when the picture was taken. At that
. Bird lore . species, as that is themost common one in this locality, but asonly the female was seen I cannot be posi-tive, for the females ofthe Broad-tailed andRufous-backed Hum-mers are too much aliketo be told apart unlessone has the specimensin hand. This nest wasbuilt, as the photographshows, on an electriclight fixture on the porchof a residence in Colo-rado Springs. The lightis directly in front of the front door of thehouse, and so close to it that the screen door, which swings out, comes within a few inches of the lamp when opened. It was July i8 when the picture was taken. At that time people were passing in and out quite frequently, and sitting on the porch much of the time, but they did not seem to disturb the picture shows how the nest was placed on the fixture much better than I can describe it. In taking the picture I must have been at work over a quarter of an hour, but the bird^never budged, though I was fussing about with a step-ladder, using that for a support for the. camera, in order to get somewhere near toa level with the nest. Several exposureswere made, the longest of a minute, theothers less, but all were time exposures,and not a single negative shows any traceof the bird having moved. Two young were successfully reared inthe nest and flew away. The parent birdwas seen to come backonce after the younghad left, examine thenest, and then , of course, thismay have been anotherbird attracted by thesight of the nest. It cer-tainly seems to be a veryremarkable instance ofconfidence on the partof a bird, when one con-siders the publicity ofthe location and theconstant disturbance thebird was subjected to bypeople passing in andout, and moving abouton the porch.—EdwardR. Warren, ColoradoSprings, Colo. The Feeding Habits ofthe Blue Jay In the November-December, 1906, num-ber of Bird-Lore, theEditor offers a welcometo the testimony of orni-thologists from the Mis-sissippi valley upon thefeeding habits of thecommon Jay. It
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