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a family of adults and young", the latter evidently several 

 days out of the nest. 



On June 2i, 1914, I found another nest of this Kinglet 

 built a few feet distant, on a limb adjacent to that in which 

 the first nest was found in 1913. As I approached, the nine 

 or ten young made their debut from the nest, the cavity be- 

 ing much enlarged and flattened by the crowding of the 

 young as they could not possibly have been contained in the 

 original space. Half a mile away, in a thicket bordering" a 

 Sphagnum bog, I saw another family on the wing, and hear- 

 ing the species singing in two other localities, I concluded it 

 to be a fairly common summer resident, and that two broods 

 are sometimes raised in a season. 



It might be interesting to compare nests of the Ruby- 

 crowned Kinglet, from Newfoundland. Several nests found 

 by Mr. W. J. Brown, near Bay of Islands, were semi-pensile, 

 resting on limbs of stunted Spruce trees and fastened to twigs 

 of overhanging" branches, quite closely to the t-runk and gen- 

 erally about five feet from the ground. They are all similar 

 and have a brown appearance compared to the bright green 

 of the " Golden-crown," being composed of a miscellaneous 

 mass of Sphagnum and other mosses, particles of decayed 

 wood, dead spruce needles, fine rootlets. Caribou hair, and 

 Usnea lichens. The lining is of plant down and reddish root- 

 lets, and beneath this is a thick bed of Caribou hair. The 

 body of the nest is sewn in places with hair and bound with 

 Usnea, especially about the rim. The eggs of the two spe- 

 cies are similar. 



While descending the hill where Kinglets were found on 

 June 29, 1913, I took advantage of a runway leading through 

 the denser growth and discovered a nest on an overhanging 

 limb of a Balsam Spruce, twenty feet from the ground. On 

 climbing the tree, the sitting bird, which I later found was 

 a female Blackburnian Warbler (Dendroica fitsca), flew to 

 an adjoining tree where she preened her feathers and occa- 

 sionally uttered faint chips of alarm. The nest held five 

 slightly incubated eggs. There was little shyness indicated 



