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iccompanying her to and from the nest, singing constantly. A 

 ^ery short stop was made at the nest. Evidently some material 

 vas accumulated before it was arranged. A day or two after 

 inding the nest I went to Shulee early in the morning, going to 

 Two Rivers, and thence through the woods to the camp. At this 

 date the ground was mostly covered with snow in the woods, 

 :hough it was rapidly melting. I found the nest completed. The 

 jird refused to leave the nest until I was nearly within reach; she 

 •emained near, several times returning to the eggs for a moment. 

 The nest was placed well out towards the end of a limb of a 

 spruce tree 27 feet above the ground. It was saddled on the 

 limb and radiating twigs but not attached to them. Considering 

 the size of the bird it is quite large, rather flat and bears 

 10 resemblance to nests of Spinas tristis, measuring as follows: 

 leight, i'63 inches ; depth, 75 inches ; outside top diameter, 

 \ inches ; inside top diameter, 2 , inches. It is constructed 

 nainly of dark pendulous tree-moss, with some fulvous bark 

 :rom weed-stalks, plant-down, Usnea and other mosses. About 

 :he bottom of the nest is woven a few spruce twigs. The 

 ining is entirely the pendulous moss. It contained iour eggs but 

 slightly incubated. These have a pale blue ground-colour, 

 ilightly darker than eggs of Spinus tristis, somewhat sparingly 

 narked about the larger end with pale purplish and a few dots of 

 Drownish black. {Morrell.) Common in winter in Ontario. This 

 sird, of all wild birds, breeds the most readily in confinement. I 

 lave seen eggs that were laid by birds belonging to Dr. C. K. 

 "larke, of Rockwood, Ont., which had only been captured the 

 jrevious winter, so had not been in a cage for more than a few 

 nonths. {Rev. C.J. Youn^.) I have several nests with sets of 

 :ggs that were taken at Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, during the 

 lummers of 1895 to 1898. One nest before me is a pretty speci- 

 nen of bird architecture, and made externally of fine twigs and 

 oots held together by moss with the inside lined with feathers. 

 X was found June 17th, 1898, in a spruce tree 10 feet from the 

 jround and contained five greenish white eggs spotted with 

 )rown. {W.Raine.) I have taken seven nests around Ottawa, 

 3nt., in cedar trees {Thuya occidentalis) at heights of six, eight, 

 en and twelve feet. The nest is built of small twigs and a little 

 vegetable down, lined with hair-like roots or hairs. Size of nest 

 1'30 X 2, and 2x1. It nests in April and May, and lays three or 

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