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nest in New England belongs to Mr. H. D. Minot, 

 who took one on the i6th of July, 1876, in the White 

 Mountains of New Hampshire, in a forest of ever- 

 greens and birches. " Having several times observed 

 the birds there," he writes, " I at last detected them in 

 the act of conveying food to their young, and soon 

 tracked them to their nest. This hung four feet above 

 the ground, from a spreading hemlock-bough, to the 

 twigs of which it was firmly fastened. It was globu- 

 lar, with an entrance at the upper part, and was com- 

 posed of hanging moss, ornamented with bits of dead 

 leaves, and lined chiefly with feathers. It contained 

 six young birds." (B. N. E., 1877, p. 56.) 



[To pursue the interesting subject of the breeding 

 of this bird, all items relating to which are still news 

 to most persons : Mr. Harold Herrick has recently 

 stated, in his list of the birds of Grand Menan, that 

 the species breeds in that locality. Mr. Allen has 

 spoken of finding the .young on Mount Monadnock, 

 the third week in August, 1876. Dr. T. M. Brewer 

 has lately published a special paper, entitled, "Nest 

 and Eggs of the Golden-crowned Kinglet {Regulus 

 satrapa}" in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Club, iv, No. 

 2, April, 1879, PP* 96-99- ^ n tn i s article the writer 

 gives the result of his examination of "one often eggs 

 from an unknown nest, but which, by the pretty sure 

 rule of exclusion, cannot well belong to any other spe- 

 cies." Though the evidence is not conclusive, there 

 is no reasonable doubt that the nest in mention was 

 really that of the Golden-crest. It was found in the 

 neighborhood of Bangor, Maine, where the bird is 

 stated to be a not uncommon summer resident, and 

 was built at an altitude of about six feet from the 



