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The mother was brooding when I took a look at the displaced bough one hour and a half after its removal from the tree, and next day at about noon the young were being fed on the average of once every two minutes. Inspection and cleaning went on with the utmost regularity, and the male

CHEREC AEOL‘T TO BROOD. AFTER mum; FED AND INSPECTED HER rouse

Photographed “my run lens and in m; second. hut with other cmulitluns similar to those at Inllownlx Ham

brought food while his mate brooded or stood astride the nest with half- spreatl, drooping wings to ward of? the heat.

The tent was pitched before this nest on July I, but being engaged in studying other birds at the time. I spent but part of two days in watch? ing the nesting scenes. Notwithstanding the high wind on the ﬁrst day, which kept the tent ﬂapping like the sails of a vessel at sea, and every leaf and twig in motion. the mother came to the hough promptly. and served the ﬁrst meal to her young in exactly twenty minutes from the moment the tent was closed. Again they were fed in a very short space, and in the thirty-four minutes which followed, during which I remained continuously in the tent, from 916 [0 950 A. 31.. the young were fed with small in- sects twenty-two times. The incisive (be/1M of the male sounded inces- santly from a neighboring apple tree, while at this juncture the female did all the work At each visit the young rose up in the nest, displayed their bright orange»yellow throats, and chirped briskly, producing a kind of rolling chitter or seething chorus of sounds, The four swayed about from side to