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BULLETIN OF THE NUTTALL 
The most satisfactory information is furnished by Mr. J. H. Batty, 
who found a nest near the Buffalo Mountains in Colorado, on June 
21, 1873, which contained five young and one egg. The nest was 
on the branch of a spruce-tree, about fifteen feet from the ground, 
and was so large “ that it could scarcely be got into a good-sized 
coffee-cup.” It is described as a loosely woven mass of hair and 
feathers, mixed with moss and some short bits of straw.” The egg, 
Mr. Batty tells me, was very much like that of the common House 
Wren, but a little lighter in color. Both parents were assiduously 
bringing larvae of insects to the young, whose appetites were un- 
appeasable. Mr. Henry W. Henshaw also reports finding a neatly 
finished nest on a mountain near Fort Garland, Col. It was built 
on a low branch of a pine, and the male was singing directly over- 
head ; but although he waited some time, Mr. Henshaw did not see 
the female. “ The nest was a somewhat bulky structure, very large 
for the size of the bird, externally composed of strips of bark, and 
lined thickly with feathers of the Grouse.” Of the eggs of this 
Kinglet nothing further is known. 
Little more can be said in respect to the Golden-crested Kinglet 
[Regulus satrapa, Licht.). Its range is nearly as extensive, but more 
northerly ; it does not descend in winter beyond Mexico. Nothing 
is known with certainty of its breeding anywhere in the United 
States, although it may be found to do so in the northern moun- 
tainous portions. Mr. Thomas G. Gentry is confident that it nidi- 
ficates in cavities in the tall trees which crown the heights of Eastern 
Pennsylvania, despite the generally accepted notion that it follows 
its foreign cousin in building a pensile nest and laying white eggs, 
finely sprinkled with buff dots, in size about equal to those of 
Humming-birds. It has also been inferred that this Kinglet raises 
two broods in a season. Mr. Nuttall and Dr. Cooper both found it 
feeding full-fledged young on the Columbia River, on May 21 ; and 
Audubon observed the same thing in Labrador in August. Mr. 
Maynard found it common at Lake Umbagog, Me., in June; he 
says it breeds there, and that, judging from the condition of female 
specimens dissected, it deposits its eggs about June 1. Several 
pairs were found in the thick woods there, but no nests could be 
discovered ; he thought they built, probably, in the long hanging- 
moss so abundant on the trees in those northern forests. Mr. Her^ 
rick puts it down positively as breeding on the island of Grand Menan, 
and Dr. Brewer in Maine. Mr. Allen informs me that he met with 
