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of our Willow W^rbliers^ pure white, and profusely spotted all over with very small 

 and very pale pink spots. They were five in number. The nest was built on the 

 ground in a wood thinly scattered with trees, and was placed in a recess on the side 

 of a tussock or little mound of grass and other plants. It was gemi-domed, the 

 outside being composed of moss, and the inside of fine dry grass. , There was neither 

 feather nor hair used in the construction. I did not see this bird farther north than 

 latitude 69°." 



^ 748. GOLDEN-CBOWNED KINGLET. Regulus satrapa Licht. Geog. Dist.— 

 North America generally, breeding in the northern and elevated parts of the United 

 States and northward, migrating south in winter to Guatemala. 



Although a dainty little creature, the Golden-crowned Kinglet appears to be of a 

 hardy nature, being found during the winter months nearly throughout the East- 

 ern States. Breeds from the northern portions of the United States northward, mov- 

 ing south in the fall, returning northward in spring, and retiring to its breeding 

 grounds. It is resident in Northern New England. Mr. H. D. Minot found a nest of 

 this species containing young, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, July 16, 

 1876.* The late Dr. T. M. Brewer describes a nest which doubtless belonged to this 

 bird, and which was found in the neighborhood of Bangor, Maine. It contained ten 

 eggs and was built in a fir tree, at an altitude of six feet. It consisted of a large ball 

 of green moss, about four and a half inches in diameter. A nest was found by Dr. 

 North up at Caribou, Maine, containing an incomplete set (five eggs). It was placed 

 partly pendant from a, horizontal branch of a small hemlock at the edge of a forest". 

 Mr. Chas. H. Andros records a nest containing ten eggs, taken "on or dbout June 1," 

 at Grand Manan, New Brunswick. This nest was saddled on a spruce liipb and was 

 similar in shape to the nest of the Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher, but much larger and 

 deeper, and was externally covered with green moss, cobwebs and lichens, intern- 

 ally lined with soft down and sheep's wool.t By far the best account we have of 

 the nidification of the Golden-crested Kinglet is that recently given by Mr. William 

 Brewster, who found it nesting in a dense woods of mixed pines and spruce, on low, 

 rather swampy ground, in the neighborhood of Winchendon, Worcester county, 

 Mass.t With the assistance of Messrs. C. E. Bailey, S. W. Denton and H. M. Spel- 

 man, three nests were secured, two with sets of nine eggs each. They were found 

 June 13, 16 and 17 (1888), respectively, and were all taken on the 29th. The first 

 was placed in a tall, slender spruce, within about two feet of the top of the tree, and 

 at least sixty feet above the ground ; suspended among the fine pendant twigs, about 

 two inches below a short horizontal branch, some twelve inches out from the main 

 stem; the second was in a heavily-limbed spruce, about fifty feet above the ground, 

 twenty feet below the top of the tree, six feet out from the branch, in a dense cluster 

 of stiff radiating twigs; the third was also in a spruce, thirty feet from the ground, 

 twelve feet out from the main stem and five feet from the end of the branch. This 

 nest on the 29th contained no eggs, and was evidently deserted; it was found in a 

 dilapidated condition. In position the first nest resembles that of the Baltimore 

 Oriole, being near the ends of long, drooping twigs. The second is built more like 

 a Vireo's, but with this difference, that instead of being suspended by its upper edges 

 only, and between the forks of a single stem, it is suported on every side, and from the 

 top nearly to the bottom, by numerous stiff, radiating twigs. It is nevertheless a 



* Minot's Land and Game Birds of New England, p. 56. 

 t Ornithologist and Oologlst. XTT. pp. S03-204. 

 t The Auk, V, pp. 337-344. 



