ways remaining about fifty to one hundred feet away 

 in the treetops singing and feeding among the leafy re- 

 treats of the surrounding deciduous and coniferous 

 growths. At the end of thirteen days the young of 

 one nest had broken through the shells and the four- 

 teenth day the other two broods came to light. 



At this point, however, their similar and rather sys- 

 tematic lives ended and dissimilarity prevailed. For 

 convenience, I shall term these broods as Number 

 One, Number Two and Number Three. 



Brood Number One was the first to emerge from 

 the shells on July 5th and both parents commenced 

 with equal ardor to search for food for the young- 

 sters and continued to do so during the time they were 

 in the nest, which covered a period of fifteen days. 

 After leaving the nest the male disappeared from the 

 vicinity and the young were seen daily with the adult 

 female until August 1st when they all disappeared. 



In the case of Brood Number Two the young birds 

 emerged from the shells on the 6th and both parents 

 brought food to them for two days. At this time the 

 male discontinued his efforts and only visited the nest 

 at intervals of perhaps thirty minutes bringing no 

 food, and finally on the fifth day of the fledglings lives 

 hied himself off to a neighboring valley and did not 

 again visit the vicinity in so far as my observations 

 could discern. The female of this brood after her mate 

 had gone off to his retreat had a very hard and ardu- 

 ous task before her and she finally succeeded in raising 

 three of the young, the fourth being a weakling and 

 could not cope with the struggles of its kin when the 

 female visited the nest with food and on the tenth day 



