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side of the rough wall and three escaped into the brush. 
In plumage the young birds were counterparts of the 
adults. The male bird was calling near by,so we 
patched up the stub and continued on our way.”? 
The above is the first 
part of an_ excellent 
article on the Chick- 
adee, too long to be 
quoted entirely. 
The location of the 
nest of this species is 
usually less than four 
feet up; but one en- 
terprising pair that I 
myself watched at Mt. 
Tallac had chosen a deserted wood- 
pecker excavation in a dead _ tree, 
nearly forty feet from the ground. The 
; location was that of the chest- 
4 738. MOUNTAIN CHICK- 
| ee nut-backed chickadee, but I am 
as positive about the identification 
\ “The birds were very fear- 
yj less.” 
y 
as one can be without a gun. In 
é\ the same grove another pair occupied a hollow stub only 
two feet up, and so frail that a touch broke open the side. 
) There were three egos in the nest when discovered, and one 
was added each day until there were seven, when sitting 
began. In fourteen days the seven small Chickadees had 
broken the shells, and lay a wriggling mass of naked bird 
1 Chester A. Barlow, in ‘‘ The Condor,’ 1901. 
