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on a bush, but also on ni\- hand. But at no time would the male bird come 

 near, and the female showed a strons^ dislike to both the camera and me. 



Perhaps I judge these birds too harshly; if so, it is because of the good 

 luck I have had with such birds as the Blue-winged Warblers. In every 

 instance I have found the latter extremely tame, and with one pair in par- 

 ticular. Scarcely an hour after finding a nest the parent bird perched on 

 my hand, and several times have I had both of the old birds on my hand 

 and shoulder. After experiences of this sort one does not consider a bird 

 tame unless it shows an utter lack of fear for both man and the camera. 



CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER FEEDING HER YOUNG ON THE AUTHOR'S HAND 



The Chebec's First Brood 



BY FRANCIS H. HERRICK (Author of ' The Home Life of Wild Birds') 

 With Photographs from Nature by the Author 



WHEN we reached Tilton and Northfield, in New Hampshire, early 

 last summer, the little Chebecs were nesting in the apple trees 

 about our house. In looking over my notes for that period I find 

 records of six of their nests. The eggs and young found in five of them 

 during the month of June presumably represented first broods, while there 

 could be as little doubt that the five eggs which a single nest contained on 

 July lO were a second batch. 



One of the nests was moved, with its branch, to a good light and posi- 

 tion where the simple home life of these little Flycatchers could be watched 

 and registered with ease. I was, therefore, interested in comparing my 

 experience, a brief account of which is soon to follow, with that of Mr. 

 Hoffmann, whose article on ' A Chebec's Second Brood ' appeared in BlRD- 

 LoRE for October, 1901. His nest, which was first transferred from its 



