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ZOOLOGY BIRDS. 



I found several old nests here which bore in their plan of structure and the 

 site chosen a remarkable resemblance to the nests of the Scarlet Tanager. 

 They were composed mainly of coarse rootlets and the dried stems of 

 plants, lined with finer material of the same nature ; the nest, as a whole, 

 being of a slight, unsubstantial character, and placed on the ends of the low 

 horizontal branches of the oaks. I have found nests of the Scarlet Tanager 

 at the East which differed scarcely at all from these, either in the substance 

 of its composition or the position. In the latter part of August, they 

 appeared to forsake the pine woods entirely, and then become more widely 

 diffused ; being found to some extent in the deciduous trees along the 

 streams, but by far the larger number inhabit the oak groves, where their 

 habits are much the same as in early summer, except that they are now 

 expert flycatchers. By the end of September, all had apparently passed 

 beyond our limits. 



