KINGLETS, GNAT-CATCHERS, ETC. 



old fields, woods roads and hillsides, where 

 they may be studied easily. At this season 

 of the year they like to associate with chicka- 

 dees and bush-tits, large numbers of the three 

 families often being seen together in friendly 

 flocks. 



As a rule kinglets travel high in bright 

 weather and low in misty or rainy weather. 

 In the winter when the firs are bending low 

 with their load of wet snow the kinglets may 

 be seen creeping over the snow picking up 

 tiny insects, sometimes dozens of them on 

 one small tree talking to each other in cheery 

 tones and seemingly regardless of an obser- 

 ver's near presence. 



The golden-crowned kinglet builds a beau- 

 tiful nest of green moss and vegetable fibers, 

 concealing it in a dense clump of needles of 

 fir or spruce from twenty to one hundred feet 

 from the ground. The ruby-crowned kinglet 

 keeps more to the mountains in the summer 

 than does the golden-crowned, building its 

 nest high in the conifers, and coming down 

 into the valleys on its way south during its 

 migrations in the f all . Its nest is semi-pensile, 

 made of moss, vegetable fibers and plant 

 down, lined with feathers. It is usually 

 placed in conifers from twenty to one hundred 

 feet from the ground. 



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