Bird Notes 



-Photo by C. W. Leister 



THE CHESTxNUT-SIDED WARBLER 

 C. W. Leister, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The nest was found on June 17th on a bushy hillside about three 

 miles from the city. The situation is quite a desolate one, covered 

 with a tangle of briers and slash from old lumbering operations. 

 The nest was in a patch of raspberry vines and was about three 

 feet from the ground. It was rather loosely constructed of inter- 

 woven grasses, lined with shreds of grass and fine rootlets. 



The eggs had already hatched, and the ever hungry young kept 

 the parents busy carrying food. The mother-bird did most of the 

 feeding while the father furnished music, from a nearby sapling. 

 He occasionally helped in the work, however, and sometimes both 

 would be at the nest at che same time. 



The food brought to che young consisted of caterpillars, chiefly 

 cutwoms and leaf rollers. An occasional spider was also eaten. 



The nest was in such an isolated locality that it was not visited 

 again, 



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