384 CHESTNUT-CROWNED TITM®©USE. 
A nest presented to me by Mr Nurratz is of a cylindrical form 
nine inches long, three and a half in diameter. It is suspended from 
the fork of a small twig, and is composed externally of hypna, lichens, 
and fibrous roots, interwoven so as to present a smoothish surface, 
and with a few stems of grasses, and some feathers of Garrulus Stelleri 
intermixed. ‘The aperture, which is at the top, does not exceed seven- 
eighths of an inch in diameter; but for two-thirds of the length of the 
nest, the internal diameter is two inches. ‘This part is lined with the 
cottony down of willows, carefully thrust into the interstices, and con- 
tains a vast quantity of soft feathers chiefly of Steller’s Jay, with some 
others, among which can be distinguished those of Tetrao urophasianus, 
Columba fasciata, and Tanagra ludoviciana. The eggs, nine in number, 
are pure white, # of an inch in length, by # broad, and are rather pointed 
at the small end. 
