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dor being the principal resorts to the eastward, while in the 

 mountainous regions westward they breed as far south as 

 Colorado. Fred. Boshart, however, the young ornithologist 

 of Lowville, N. Y., found a nest July Tth, 1877, in Denmark, 

 Lewis County, N. Y. In a very rough place of logs and 

 windfalls, it was placed about five inches above ground, 

 thus differing from its ordinary location. It contained one 



Audubon describes a nest found in Labrador, and m all 

 respects representative, as follows: " The nest was placed in 

 the moss, near the foot of a low fir, and was formed exter- 

 nally of beautiful dry green moss, matted in bunches like 

 the coarse hair of some quadruped, internally of very fine 

 dry grass, arranged with great neatness to the thickness of 

 nearly half an inch, with a full lining of delicate fibrous 

 roots of a rich transparent yellow. * * * The eggs, five in 

 number, average ^ of an inch in length, are proportion- 

 ately broad, of a light sea-green color, mottled toward the 

 larger end with brownish spots and blotches, a few spots of 

 a lighter tint being dispersed over the whole." He found 

 the nests numerous in that locality, as also did Dr. Coues. 

 The former gives June as their breeding time. He also 

 says: ''The food of this species, while in Labrador, consists 

 of small coleopterous insects, grass-seeds, and a variety of 

 berries, as well as some minute shell-fish, for which they 

 frequently search the margins of ponds or the sea-shore." 

 By the first of October the White-crown begins to pass this 

 point on its way south, and is quite common for several 

 weeks. 



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As I continue my ride, passing a thicket near a large 

 block of woods, I meet a company of some half-dozen 

 White-throated Sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis) leisurely 



