154 THE SOOTY FOX SPARROW. 
those are the eggs of Tahbahlilchtch, the other Song Sparrow we told you 
about.” The boys were near enough right: the Fox Sparrow is for all the 
ordinary world like a Song Sparrow; and I venture that not a dozen white 
boys in Washington ever saw the bird itself, let alone distinguishing it by 
name. 
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I'he eggs referred to were found amid most romantic surroundings, on 
Taken on Carroll Islet. Photo by the Author. 
NEST OF SOOTY FOX SPARROW IN FERN CLUMP. 
THE NEST ITSELF IS ALMOST INVISIBLE BECAUSE BURIED IN MOSS AND FERN LEAVES. 
a sea-girt islet a mile or two out from the Pacific shore. The island is 
given over to sea-birds, and these nest upon its precipitous sides to the 
number of thousands; but the center of the rock is crowned with a grove 
of spruce trees, which overshadow a dense growth of salmon-berry bushes. 
In a clump of the latter at a height of six feet was placed a very bulky but 
unusually handsome nest, which held, in the really tiny cup which occupies 
the upper center of the structure, three eggs of a greenish blue color heavily 
spotted and marbled with warm browns. The nest measures externally eight 
and ten inches in width, internally two; in depth four inches outside and 
only one and a half inside. It is composed chiefly of green mosses set in 
