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 68 THE CONDOR Vol. XVII ing haying, and two in mulberry trees. These were the lowest nests found, one being only eight feet off the ground, while the other eleven ranged from twenty to forty feet up. Also one-of this last tv/o was built in a last season's Oriole nest. Such a site is recorded by Dawson in his "Birds of Washington". This nest is shown in figure 20. The new material of stems, hair, wool and feathers put in by the new tenants made a striking contrast to the blackened exterior of the old nest. This nest contained but one young bird, less than a week old. As mentioned previously, a violent storm had passed over this region the week before, and this nest, made too shallow by recent padding of the Kingbirds, saddled as it was to a slender upright branch, had evidently dumped the other young during the gale. Fig. 20. A ARKANSAS KINGBIRD'S NEST IN AN OLD NEST OF THE BULLOCK ORIOLE On the return trip past the Outlook school, three nests were found in the black locusts bordering the school grounds, one of these that of the Eastern Kingbird. At three other poplar windbreaks birds were seen, but their nests remained undiscovered. The nest drawn in figure 21 shows the style of nest usually built on tele- phone or electric poles. This was situated on Main Street in Sunnyside, and was the exception that shows the fallacy of rigid rules, for several 'large pop- Jars stood near and were apparently unoccupied by Kingbirds. Some general observations might be recorded. The Kingbirds seemed to rear but the one brood. The nests were built of small light trash, straws, string, feathers, weed rootlets, and wool (this is a sheep country where every