30 
BIRD LIFE IN WASHINGTON 
was the nest. It was made of grass stems 
and contained four Avliite eggs spotted 
all over with lavender. 
Don’t suppose for a moment that Mr. 
Chat always sits upon a limb in plain 
sight. He usually does just the contrary. 
When he has had no little tired wife to 
cheer, I have tried for hours to get a 
glimpse of him in the thicket. 
He would laugh at me, now on this 
side and now on that, while I could catch 
scarcely the flutter of a wing. 
There was one thing that he did not 
hide, though, and that was his brass band 
music. 
The Chat is rare in Washington Avest 
of the Cascades. Occasionally he comes 
from the eastern part of the state through 
the mountain passes. 
Perhaps aa lien the country is more thor¬ 
oughly cleared of tall timber, aa e may con¬ 
vince him that the Avestern part of the 
state has as many briery jungles as the 
eastern part and so induce him to take up 
his summer residence here. 
