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ing haying, and two in mulberry trees. These were the lowest nests found, one 
being only eight feet off the ground, while the other eleven ranged from 
twenty to forty feet up. Also one of this last two was built in a last season’s 
Oriole nest. Such a site is recorded by Dawson in his “Birds of Washington”. 
This nest is shown in figure 20. The new material of stems, hair, wool and 
feathers put in by the new tenants made a striking contrast to the blackened 
exterior of the old nest. This nest contained but one young bird, less than a 
week old. As mentioned previously, a violent storm had passed over this region 
the week before, and this nest, made too shallow by recent padding of the 
Kingbirds, saddled as it was to a slender upright branch, had evidently dumped 
the other young during the gale. 
On the return trip past the Outlook school, three nests were found in the 
black locusts bordering the school grounds, one of these that of the Eastern 
Kingbird. At three other poplar windbreaks birds were seen, but their nests 
remained undiscovered. 
The nest drawn in figure 21 shows the style of nest usually built on tele- 
phone or electric poles. This was situated on Main Street in Sunnyside, and 
was the exception that shows the fallacy of rigid rules, for several large pop- 
lars stood near and were apparently unoccupied by Kingbirds. 
Some general observations might be recorded. The Kingbirds seemed to 
rear but the one brood. The nests were built of small light trash, straws, 
string, feathers, Aveed rootlets, and wool (this is a sheep country where every 
