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nest contained six eggs, this being July 2 1 . Five eggs hatched, and on August 

 5 the five young left the nest. 



12. Redheaded Woodpecker. Ten feet high, in a von Berlepsch-style 

 bluebird-size nest-box, the opening to which they enlarged to gain entrance. 

 They started work on the box on May 28, against the vain protests of the 

 Fhckers nesting at No. 10. On June 28 the nest contained two eggs, and two 

 young just hatched. On July 19 the two young left the nest, the other eggs 

 not having hatched. 



13. Mourning Dove. Ten feet high, in a box elder. The nest was found on 

 June 5 and on June 22 the two young left the nest in safety. 



14. Robin. Fourteen feet high, in a box elder. The nest was first seen on 

 May 10, and then contained four eggs, all of which hatched, and the four young 

 were successfully raised. 



15. Catbird. Twelve feet high, in a box elder. This I believe to be a second 

 nesting of the pair of Catbirds which nested earlier at No. 19. The nest was 

 found July 10, when it contained four eggs. A storm on July 12 blew out 

 two of these. The other two hatched safely, and the young were successfully 

 raised. 



16. Robin. Twelve feet high, in the same box elder as No. 15 and No. 17. 

 This tree, it is interesing to note, that contained these three nests stood in the 

 middle of the children's sand-pile, where from two to four children played 

 many hours of the day. I believe that this nest was never occupied, but was 

 abandoned when fully completed; but of this I am not sure, as it was among 

 dense foliage, and was not discovered until the wind blew it down on July 12. 



17. Mourning Dove. Seven feet high, in a box elder. On June 5, the nest 

 contained two young. On that evening the wind blew out one of the fledg- 

 lings and it was drowned in the rain. A few days later the other shared a 

 like fate. 



18. House Wren. Ten feet high, in a home-made porch pillar nest- 

 box, in an ash tree. The box was opened on July 21, and then contained five 

 eggs. Lattir five young, fully fledged, left the nest. 



19. Catbird. Twenty feet high, in a box elder. The nest was found May 

 21, when just started, but it was so high that it was impossible to observe its 

 contents at any time. Later, however, the old birds were seen feeding their 

 young and, when the nest was abandoned on June 20, four young Catbirds 

 were observed in the plum thicket, about fifty feet away, and it is probable 

 that they came from this nest. 



20. Robin. Li a box elder close to children's playhouse, 10 feet high. The 

 nest was only begun and then abandoned, the pair going from this place to 

 the site of No. 24 and No. 25, and then to No. 14. 



21. House Wren. Ten feet high, in a von Berlepsch-style nest-box, in a 

 box elder. The first material for this nest was carried in on May 21. By June 

 16 six eggs were in the nest, and on June 28 there were six young. On July 



