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For its successful rearing they are ready to forswear the delights of foreign 
travel, and to its embellishment they devote every surplus energy, even after 
the children have come. 
If there were time it would be interesting to trace the genesis of this 
architectural passion. Suffice it to say that the Bush-Tit comes of a race of 
builders. They call him Tit, a name shared in common with all the Chicka- 
dees; and Chickadee he is in structure and behavior, in his absolute indiffer- 
ence to position or balance, in his daintiness and sprightliness. Now Chicka- 
dees, altho they 
have lost the art f 
of building, are § 
specialists in nest- 
lining. (A nest 
lined with rabbit- 
fur means as 
much to a Chicka- 
dee as does a seal- 
skin jacket to 
you, my lady!) 
Hence the Chick- 
adee strain is not 
lost upon our sub- 
ec | Lines) lat, 
further, shows his 
affinity with the 
Kinglets in a 
habit of restlessly 
flirting the wings; 
and the Kinglets, 
as we know, are 
master builders. 
But it is to the 
Wrens that the 
Bush- Tit owes 
most of all, and 
especially to the 
Tulé Wren, for 
he has taken the 
general —_ concep- 
tion of a com- 
pletely enclosed Taken wn Tacoma. Photo by Dawson and Bowles. 
nest and worked NEST OF THE BUSH-TIT IN SITU. 
