The Oologist. 



Vol. XXI. No. 9. 



Albion, N. Y., Sep., 1904. 



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The California Bush-tit and Parkman's 

 Wren. 



By Harry H. Dunn. 



For a good many years I have been 



interested in the nesting habits of 



these two birds, probably because both 



breed in much the same localities and 



because the nests of both have been, 

 up to within a season or two at most, 

 a sort of Chinese puzzle to me and I 

 have found very few of them. The 

 finding of a Bush-tit's nest is often a 

 matter of patient watching until the 

 parent birds become accustomed to 

 your presence, when they will usually 

 go to the nest. But a wren is quite 

 otherwise constituted, and while she 

 will scold you while you are removing 

 the eggs from her home, she will not, 

 unless she does not see you at all, go 

 to her nest while the collector is near. 

 In this respect Parkman's Wren is 

 different from Vigor's Wren, whose 

 eggs I have collected in this locality, 

 in that the latter will invariably go to 

 the nest when watched and not even 

 try to conceal her home from prying 

 eyes. 



In the oak-covered Hats, the bottoms 

 grown up to Sycamores and even back 

 in the slopes where the pines begin, 

 Parkman's Wren is an abundant bird, 

 everywhere much in evidence, cheer- 

 ing the otherwise quiet hills with its 

 short but sweet song, and nesting 

 commonly in the dead trees (and in 

 woodpecker's holes in some of the live 

 ones,) throughout its range. In the 

 accompanying photo a typical nesting 

 site is well shown. On the day in 

 which this picture was taken, my 

 friend, Mr. H. A. Bradforc;!, of Placen- 

 tia, and myself were out prospecting 

 for Wrens and Bush-tits, when he 

 found the nest here presented. 



Some wandereing camper had cut 

 from a sturdy elder tree one of its larg- 

 est limbs, leaving it to hang by a por- 

 tion of the stout bark. At some time 



