
tion and the female with the two youngest about the same distance 
from the nest in the opposite direction. By noon, the adults with 
their broxds were 200 feet apart, and by 5 p. m they were 500 
feet apart. On the morning of June 17 they were eventually loca- 
ted about 600 yards from each other. 
On June 10 it rained intermittently all day. The first two 
eggs in Nest No. 11 (Table 1) hatched in the early afternoon. 
This was the nest, mentioned above under "Hatching", where the 
male brooded briefly during the afternoon. As shown in the table, 
the last two eggs had not hatched at 6:45 p. m. At 6 a. m. on 
June 11 the female was found about 20 feet from the nest with the 
two youngest chicks. The male, with the two oldest, was located 
in a dense alder thicket some 3CO feet away in the opposite direc- 
tion. 
Nest No. 12 (Table 1) hatched out on June 1). As shown in the 
table, the first chick in that nest was almost three hours old when 
the second hatched just before noon. In the meantime I had flushed 
the female from the nest and the male from a spot about four feet 
from it, and had located the oldest chick from the spot where the 
male flushed and replaced it in the nest. At 2 p. m. both older 
chicks were missing from the nest. At 4:45 p. m. they were located 
with the male about 20C yards from the nest. The movements of the 
two adults with their broods during the next few days were carefully 
traced and are shown in Figure 1. The trails crossed Several times, 
but it was clear that the broods remained separate. 
At Nest No. 13 (Table 1) the male was found at 8 a. m. on the 
morning following the hatch, with the oldest chick, six feet from 
the nest. The female with the other three chicks was flushed from 
the base of the nest. The nest was in dense, very wet cover, where 
the chicks must have had to cross small puddles of water to get 
clear. At 9 a.m. the male had taken the three oldest ten feet in 
one direction, while the youngest and vresumably the weakest one 
remained with the female ten feet in another direction. This in- 
stance seems to idicate that the male takes the sturdiest and most 
active chicks when he has a choice. 
At one nest where the sequence of the hatch was not obtained, 
the male was found with three chicks on June 19, the day following 
the hatch, lO feet from the nest. The female remained at the nest, 
incubating an egg which later proved to be addled. 
As shown in Table™1, Nest No. 18 contained only three eggs. ! 
The female went on brooding on this nest several hours after the eggs 
were known to be hatched. She was relocated with her young on August 
lh, the day after the hatch, about 15 yards from the nest with the ) 
three chicks. . 
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