118 THE CEDAR BIRD. 



sticks and coarse grasses; inwardly, of sprigs of larch, fine, 

 dried grasses, or horse-hair, quite a little wool, or vegetable 

 down, being occasionally used, or even a large quantity of 

 fine rootlets. The eggs, 4 or 5, some .82 x .62, are light- 

 green, or dingy white, specked and spotted with dark 

 purple and black. 



I once found a young one, full-grown, held to the nest by 

 a horse-hair, which had grown into the foot. It had the 

 waxen tips on its wings, showing that this peculiarity is not 

 wholly a matter of age. 



