Bush-tit 1s a new ool -species, and the Plumbeous Bush-tit 
is a resident of the interior. — 
These snuff-brown atoms are much ai in having tails 
longer than their bodies, and the bodies smaller than a 
thumb. They do not seem to mind city sights and sounds, 
for they were heard lisping their small song, ‘‘tss, tss,” in 
a brushy tangle, which had been left where two car lines 
eross at right angles in Tacoma; and one summer a big birch 
tree bending over the entrance to Kinnear Park, Seattle, hid 
their long purse-like nest from the careless eyes of many 
visitors who had gone there to see the beauties of that place. 
A pair of the Puget Sound Bush-tits started a nest, 
which was found in the early stages, in a madrone tree one 
March in a city of the Northwest. Both brown fluffs of 
feathers worked at the nest with overflowing bills filled 
with cobwebs, which they found about the trunks of the 
firs in shady places. This nest was fastened about, and hung 
from three branches, and was commenced in the attic © 
region. The rafters of cobwebs were arranged in such a 
way that one branch formed a door step below the entrance, 
which is always on the side of the nest near the roof. Here 
— each bird returned, after going into the nest with its mouth- 
ful and working it into the walls, to pick off the scraps of 
cobweb clinging to its neck and shoulders. 
Their silken foundation was adorned later with bits of 
lichens, green fronds of moss, soft down from the willow, 
pieces of wood shavings, and, finally a few trimmings of © 
paper, while many mouthfuls of feathers were carried 1 in for 
mattresses. 
Both of these Dish ike worked fore the inside of the 
nest, and, if one were busy there, the other waited, on the 
convenient doorstep, until the first came out through the 
tight-fitting door. It was a good thing that they worked 
together, for the amount of material they used was out of 
_all proportion to their size. This nest was twelve inches — 
long, and four inches in diameter near the lower end of the | 
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