BIRDS AT CROSB RANGK. 53 
stood, took his load of fruit from him and brought it down 
to the young. 
On the morning of the 21st of July, the young Cedar birds 
were standing up in the nest and shaking their wings vig¬ 
orously. They already made a faint note, similar to the 
cree of the parents. They stood so high when she fed them 
that it was difficult for her to reach into their mouths. The 
next morning, by half-past eleven, one had left the nest 
and was up in the tree above. At half-past one in the 
afternoon the remaining three left the nest with a rush. 
They flew to the grass about forty feet off. The parents 
were very much excited, and when the young flew in any 
direction, one of the old ones flew with them as if to en¬ 
courage them. The next morning all the young were 
gathered again in the branches of a thick tree near by. 
An interesting example of the force of habit was afford¬ 
ed by the female, after the young had been out of the nest 
for some time. Though she had assisted them in their 
flight, she flew with her load of fruit to the twig where she 
had alighted so often in the last ten days, and hopped along 
through the dry leaves to the empty nest. After a mo¬ 
ment she flew off, and no doubt found her brood in the 
neighboring tree. 
When the school opened, a pair of Chebecs were feeding 
their young in a nest in an apple tree in front of the labor¬ 
atory. On July 6th, the young left the nest and were fed 
all day long in a little group of apple trees. The young 
sat close together in a row on one of the twigs. On the 
8th I was surprised to see the female building again in the 
same crotch from which I had taken the empty nest. By 
the xoth she had finished her second nest and was helping 
the male feed the old brood. On the 14th she had laid one 
egg in the new nest. She laid three eggs in all, and on 
the 6th of August I took the nest from the crotch, which 
