They go to northern and high places to hide their homes, putting them as far out of reach as does the Baltimore Oriole.

This nest is made of moss and seems very large when compared with the size of the builder.

It is partly hung from the concealing bough of an evergreen, sometimes quite near the ground, sometimes swinging far up out of sight." "Does this Kinglet lay two little white eggs, like the Hummingbird ?" asked Nat.
"No," said the Doctor, "this sturdy bird lays eight or ten white eggs with brown spots." "Ten eggs!" cried Dodo.

"How can it sit on them all at once and keep them warm enough to hatch ?" "Perhaps the birds stir the eggs up every day to give them all an even chance," said Rap.
"It is possible that they may," said the Doctor; "but that is one of many things about home life in Birdland that we do not know.
"There is one thing more that I must tell you here, lest you make a mistake about the Golden-crowned Kinglet.

He has a twin brother, so much like himself that their own parents can hardly tell them apart without looking at the tops of their heads.