SOC) The Wilson Bulletin — No. 91 



family. A few lichens (no Usnea) adorned the exterior and 

 numerous balls of reddish-brown spiders' silk held the ma- 

 terial together. Within this cradle of moss was a layer of 

 fur from the Hare, and lastly a substantial lining of small 

 feathers, some of them curving- upwards and over the en- 

 trance, while throughout the nest occasional feathers and hair 

 were used in binding'. The nest measured, in outside di- 

 ameter, 4x3.60 inches; outside depth, •^.l.'j : inside depth, 1.30, 

 and entrance diameter, 1.35 inches. 



Only six eggs had been deposited and as incubation had 

 not commenced, the set was likely incomplete. Passing this 

 spot on July (i, I heard the alarm notes of a " Golden-crown " 

 and soon found another nest with one egg, twenty two feet 

 from the ground and eight from the trunk, similarly con- 

 structed and situated in another heavily-foliaged Balsam 

 Spruce, one hundred feet distant from the tirst nest, having 

 likely been built by the same pair of birds. 



These uest-trees were situated on a hillside that was form- 

 erly pasture-land but now mostly overgrown with Balsam 

 Spruce. 



In the many open spaces between these t-rees was an un- 

 dergrowth of Brake Fern and Hazel. Both nest-trees faced 

 such openings, where the luxuriant growth and wide-spread- 

 ing basal branches of the Balsams gave a park-like appear- 

 ance to the view. On the lower reaches of the hill, facing a 

 trout brook which drained the lake above, the growth was 

 much denser. On June 39, in this denser growth near the 

 brook, were families of two uear relatives of the Kinglet — 

 the Winter, and House Wren. 'Jlie latter had evidently led 

 her young into the shade from adjacent stump-land. From 

 the stream bank a Water-Thrush occasionally sang and I had 

 a ch.ance to compare its song with that of the House Wren. 

 The ri])])ing licjuid (|ualit}- of the Water-Thrush notes always 

 remind me of the Wren, and although the song of the former 

 i> much clearer and sweeter, it has the same hurried finish. 



On the opposing hill, in dense forest growth, I again heard 

 the methodical " dee-dec" of the " Ciolden-crown," and found 



