WITH BROWN PREDOMINATING | 
as the family cares are over they become as friendly as 
possible with the few who invade their haunts. 
The nest is snugly hidden in a cleft in the rock under- 
neath a crag, where the fury of the storm will pass it by. 
It is not an elaborate affair, but composed of weed stalks, 
and lined with deer moss and occasionally a few feathers. 
Late in June incubation begins, and it continues four- 
teen days. The newly hatched young are only thinly 
sprinkled with hair-like gray down and look not unlike 
baby juncos. They remain in the nest fully three weeks, 
and by the middle of August are able to fly nearly as 
_well as the adults. In September the broods of the 
vicinity unite in bands of one or two families, frolicking 
and chattering about the summit as if it were mid- 
summer, and braving the snowstorms until the cold 
dark November days drive them to the firs for shelter 
at night. Even then the adults fly back to the crests 
during the sunny hours, as if homesick for the bare, 
bleak crags and the broad vista of snowy peaks. By 
December they are well within the forest, whirling from 
place to place in masses like juncos, and sleeping huddled 
together in the heavy firs, sometimes almost buried in 
the snow but always sure of a joyous resurrection in the 
morning. 
533. PINE SISKIN, OR PINE FINCH. — Spinus pinus. 
Famity: The Finches, Sparrows, ete. 
Length : 4.50-5.25. 
Adults: Upper parts grayish or brownish ; under parts whitish ; whole 
body finely streaked with brown ; sulphur-yellow patches on wings 
and tail, 
