THE WESTERN GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. 2605 
wonderfully compacted affair of moss, both green and gray, interspersed with 
liverworts, dried grasses, soft weed fibers, and cow-hair. The deep depression 
of the nest cup scarcely mars the sphericity of the whole, for the edges are 
brought well in; so much so, in fact, that a containing branch overloaded with 
foliage upon one side, once tipped half way over without spilling the eggs. 
‘he deep cavity is heavily lined with cow-hair and abundant feathers of 
Taken near Tacoma Photo by Bowles and Dawson. 
NEST OF WESTERN GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET IN FIR BRANCH, 
THIS IS THE MOST THAT MAY BE SEEN OF NEST OR CONTENTS FROM ANY ANGLE, 
grouse or domestic fowl. These feathers are placed with their soft ends pro- 
truding, and they curl over the entrance in such fashion as almost or quite to 
conceal the eggs. One would like to particularize at great length, for no 
fervors of description can overstate the beauties of this Ninglet palace. 
Eggs vary in number from five to nine, seven and eight being the rule. I 
once took a nest with eleven—one too many at the least, for it had to rest on 
top of the others. They are not much larger than Hummingbirds’ and are 
quite as fragile. Mr. Bowles consumed twenty minutes in removing the con- 
tents of the big nest to the collecting box without a break. ‘The eggs vary in 
