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side of the rough wall and three escaped into the brush. 

 In plumage the young birds were counterparts of the 

 adults. The male bird was calling near by , so we 

 patched up the stub and continued on our way. " ^ 



The above is the first 

 part of an excellent 

 article on the Chick- 

 adee, too long to be 

 quoted entirely. 



The location of the 

 nest of this species is 

 usually less than four 

 feet up ; but one en- 

 terprising pair that I 

 myself watched at Mt. 

 Tallac had chosen a deserted wood- 

 pecker excavation in a dead tree, 

 nearly forty feet from the ground. The 

 location was that of the chest- 

 nut-backed chickadee, but I am 

 as positive about the identification 

 as one can be without a gun. In 

 the same grove another pair occupied a hollow stub only 

 two feet up, and so frail that a touch broke open the side. 

 There were three eggs in the nest when discovered, and one 

 was added each day until there were seven, when sitting 

 began. In fourteen days the seven small Chickadees had 

 broken the shells, and lay a wriggling mass of naked bird 



738. Mountain Chick 



ADEE. 

 '' The birds ivere very fear 



1 Chester A. Barlow, in "The Condor, ' 1901. 



