NEST: an extraordinarily, bulky, pendulous, purseshaped structure for such midgets; sometimes 16 inches long with entrance on side near top. Four inches of base — close woven felt of willow and other seed down. Base varies in depth to an inch and seems greatest where winds are strongest and is used as ballast. Upper part more latticed to admit air, the whole securely tied with spider webs.

EGGS: 5 to 9, white, and usually entirely buried in a coverlet of soft seed floss.

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Transition and Upper Sonoran zones of Pacific coast from Southern British Columbia and northern Washington to northern Lower California.

Transition and Upper Sonoran zones of Oregon and California (except coast strip) from northeastern Oregon to southern California.

Nest and eggs of both subspecies similar to those of Bushtit.

Cape region of Lower California in Upper Sonoran zone.

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A 50–60 foot tree, with 2–3, sometimes 6-foot trunk, distributed in a narrow strip from Cypress Point to Carmel Bay, 2 miles long: and a small grove on Point Lobos, California.