24 BIRDS OF THE 



lished fact year by year, evident in May, 

 namely, the bronzed grackle, the Baltimore 

 oriole, and the robin. It may be that the 

 red-eyed vireo or the warbling vireo, the 

 redstart or the least flycatcher has been 

 sometimes represented by a pair of breeding 

 birds. Mr. Torrey speaks of some of these 

 species as being summer resident birds on 

 the Common twenty-five or thirty years 

 ago. A vireo's nest on the Common, well 

 preserved in the late fall, three or four 

 years ago indicated that a pair either of red- 

 eyed or warbling vireos had nested there, 

 and the singing of a redstart on the Com- 

 mon during June in a recent summer, 

 upon the testimony of a friend, points to 

 the nesting of a pair of that species there. 

 Information has also been received that 

 in the summer of 1907 a pair of flickers 

 nested on the Common and reared a brood 

 of young, and also that two flickers were 

 occasionally seen there throughout the sum- 

 mer of 1908. The careful elimination of 

 dead branches from the trees and the clos- 

 ing up of all holes resulting from decay, 



