40 A'ESTS AND EGGS OF BIRDS. 



is nearly as extensive, but more northerly than that of the ruby- 

 crown. In 1872, T. Martin Trippe recorded that the youngwere 

 to be met with in the highest parts of the Catskill Mountains in 

 July, showing that they had bred there ; but not until 1875 w^as 

 its nest discovered, and to H. D. Minot of Boston belongs the 

 credit. He had several times observed parent birds in a cer- 

 tain forest in the White Mountains, and on the i6th of July de- 

 tected them in the act of conveying food to their young, and 

 tracked them to their nest. " This hung four feet above the 

 ground, from a spreading hemlock bough, to the twigs of which 

 it was firmly fastened ; it was globular, with an entrance in the 

 upper part, and was composed of hanging moss, ornamented 

 with bits of dead leaves, and lined chiefly with feathers." It 

 contained six young birds, but no eggs. 



Various writers have inferred that this kinglet raises two 

 broods in a season, since it stays so long about its breeding 

 haunts. Nuttall and Cooper both found it feeding full-fledged 

 young on the Columbia river May 21, and Audubon observed 

 the same in Labrador in August. Maynard found it common 

 in thick woods at Lake Umbagog, Me., in June; says it breeds 

 there, probably in the masses of pendent moss, and, judging 

 from dissection, lays its eggs about June i ; no nests were dis- 

 covered however. He describes the nuptial song as " a series 

 of low shrill chirps, terminating in a lisping warble." Harold 

 Herrick puts it down positively as breeding on the Island of 

 Grand Menan, and Dr. Brewer elsewhere in Maine. Mr, Allen 

 met with young attended by parents the third week in August. 

 1876, on Mt. Monadnock, N. H. ; H. D. Minot mentions its 

 nesting two successive seasons among the white birches at 

 Bethlehem, N. IL, and C.F.Goodhue reports that it spends 

 the summer on Mt. Kearsarge, near Salisbury, N. H. Mr.J. K. 

 Lord asserts that these birds were abundant on Vancouver's 

 Island and the adjacent coast, where he found them building 

 pensile nests suspended from the tips of high pine branches, 

 in which they laid from five to seven eggs. He does not describe 

 the eggs, which was hardly to be expected, perhaps, consider- 

 ing the half-use he seems to have made of his opportunities. 

 Herr F. W. Baedeker has figured the egg in the "Journal fiir 



