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hanging roofs of small caves. The song is heard not 

 only in the breeding season but in the middle of winter 

 on a fine day, especially among the rocks of the Garden 

 of the Gods, where it is nearly always to be met with. 



Further south, in Texas and Mexico, the Canon- Wren 

 is a more familiar bird, often setthng about houses and 

 singing from the chimney tops, but except in the case 

 of an individual seen by Burnett " in a yard stacked witli 

 cement building blocks " in Longmont, it appears to 

 avoid the hamits of man in Colorado. 



The only definite nesting record in Colorado is that of 

 Minot. He found a nest near Manitou on June 8th, 

 1880. It was placed in a niche in the roof of a cave 

 about ten feet above the ground, and so narrow was the 

 entrance that he was unable to put his hand in ; it was 

 necessary finally to obtain the help of a mason to knock 

 the slab away. The nest itself was made of twigs, very 

 roughly and loosely put together with a lining of a thick 

 felt of down and feathers, held together with a few plant 

 stalks. The eggs, five in number, were white, with a rosy 

 tinge before being blown, dehcately speckled, chiefly 

 towards the larger end, with reddish-brown. They 

 measured "75 x "55. 



Dille has recently given a rather different account, 

 at least as far as the date is concerned ; he located a nest 

 in a sheltered crevice on a sixty-foot cKff in the foothills 

 of Boulder co. By means of a rope an investigation 

 was made on April 4th, when the nest was found to 

 be completed, and to contain three eggs ; but it was 

 not further disturbed. Brimning mentioned to Dille 

 three other nesting sites of the Caiion-Wren in the 

 immediate neighbourhood, and stated that the bird 

 arrived onty about the end of November, and left again 

 in spring, I presume after nesting was finished. 



