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The most satisfactory information is furnished by Mr. J. H. Batty, 

 ■who found a nest near the Buffalo Mountains in Colorado, on June 

 21, 1873, which contained five young and one egg. The nest was 

 on the branch of a spruce-tree, about fifteen feet from the ground, 

 and was so large " that it could scarcely be got into a good-sized 

 coffee-cup." It is described as " a loosely woven mass of hair and 

 feathers, mixed with moss and some short bits of straw." The egg, 

 Mr. Batty tells me, was very much like that of the common House 

 Wren, but a little lighter in color. Both parents were assiduously 

 bringing larvse of insects to the young, whose appetites were un- 

 appeasable. Mr. Henry W. Henshaw also reports finding a neatly 

 finished nest on a mountain near Fort Garland, Col. It was built 

 on a low branch of a pine, and the male was singiug directly over- 

 head ; but although he waited some time, Mr. Henshaw did not see 

 the female. " The nest was a somewhat bulky structure, very large 

 for the size of the bird, externally composed of strips of bark, and 

 lined thickly with feathers of the Grouse." Of the eggs of this 

 Kinglet nothing further is known. 



Little more can be said in respect to the Golden-crested Kinglet 

 (Regulus sat?'apa, Licht.). Its range is nearly as extensive, but more 

 northerly ; it does not descend in winter beyond Mexico. Nothing 

 is known with certainty of its breeding anywhere in the United 

 States, although it may be found to do so in the northern moun- 

 tainous portions. Mr. Thomas G. Gentry is confident that it nidi- 

 ficates in cavities in the tall trees which crown the heights of Eastern 

 Pennsylvania, despite the generally accepted notion that it follows 

 its foreign cousin in building a pensile nest and laying white eggs, 

 finely sprinkled with buff dots, in size about equal to those ot 

 Humming-birds. It has also been inferred that this Kinglet raises 

 two broods in a season. Mr. Nuttall and Dr. Cooper both found it 

 feeding full-fledged young on the Columbia River, on May 21 ; and 

 Audubon observed the same thing in Labrador in August. Mr. 

 Maynard found it common at Lake Umbagog, Me., in June ; he 

 says it breeds there, and that, judging from the condition of female 

 specimens dissected, it deposits its eggs about June 1. Several 

 pairs were found in the thick woods there, but no nests could be 

 discovered ; he thought they built, probably, in the long hanging- 

 moss so abundant on the trees in those northern forests. Mr. Her- 

 rick puts it down positively as breeding on the island of Grand Menan, 

 and Dr. Brewer in Maine. Mr. Allen informs me that he met with 



